Political Science · Public Administration
Robert Dahl, in his 'The Science of Public Administration (1947)', raised three problems that make it difficult for public administration to become a science. Which of these is Not one of those problems?
AUniversalism ✓ Correct
BValues
CHuman behaviour
DCulture
Correct answer: (A) Universalism — Universalism is not one of Dahl's three problems, so it is the odd one out.
Explanation
★Universalism is not one of Dahl's three problems, so it is the odd one out.
★Dahl held that a science of administration is difficult because of three obstacles.
★The first is the place of normative values, which a value-neutral science cannot handle.
★The second is the variability of individual human behaviour.
★The third is the social and cultural setting in which administration operates.
★These three, values, behaviour and culture, resist treatment as a pure science.
★So universalism is not among the problems Dahl named.
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