Humanities and Public Administration

Edited by Edoardo Ongaro, Professor of Public Management, The Open University, UK, Giovanni Orsina, Professor of Contemporary History and Lorenzo Castellani, Professor of History of Political Institutions and Lecturer, LUISS School of Government, Italy

• Contents1 The Contribution of the Humanities to the Advancement ofPublic Governance and Public Administration 1Edoardo Ongaro, Giovanni Orsina, and Lorenzo Castellani2 Socratic Public Administration: The Relevance of DwightWaldo Today 23Patrick Overeem3 Public Philosophy and the Administrative State 36Christopher Ansell4 Philosophical Pragmatism and the Study of PublicAdministration 50Travis A. Whetsell5 Benevolence, (Public) Ethics and Public Services: RevisitingPublic Value, Public Service Motivation, and Models ofPublic Administration through the Ethics of Supererogation 68Stefano Biancu and Edoardo Ongaro6 Behaviour in Public Administration: In Search ofFoundational Insights 79Jonathan Kamkhaj and Claudio Radaelli7 Human Geography and the Study of Governance and Society:Perspectives from the UK 94Irene Hardill8 The Concept of State in the Historical Studies 108Leonida Tedoldi9 Historiography and Public Administration: A Story of Disciplines 119Fabio Rugge10 History and Public Administration: Meanings, Problems,Usefulness in Policy-making 133Lorenzo Castellani11 The Contribution of the Religious Studies and TheologyLiteratures to Public Administration: A Review and Outlook 152Michele Tantardini and Edoardo Ongaro12 When Ideas Have Consequences: The Optical Illusion ofReligion in Public Policy 176Pasquale Annicchino13 Reconnecting government: On the existential layers of publicadministration 188Ronald van Steden14 The Arts and Public Administration: How the Considerationof the Nature of Art can Provide Novel Ways to UnderstandPublic Administration 207Edoardo Ongaro15 The Arts and Public Administration: How Artworks CanBe a Source of Knowledge, Inspiration, Motivation, andUnderstanding in Public Administration 217Gjalt de Graaf and Hanneke van Asperen16 Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Siena Frescoes and PublicAdministration Today 236Wolfgang Drechsler17 Mind the Gap: A Strategy to connect Humanities (Arts) withSocial Sciences (Public Administration) 253Geert Bouckaert18 Humanism and Public Administration: Profiling the contoursof Public Administration as Practical Humanism 275Stefano Biancu and Edoardo OngaroIndex 283

‘This new book is a seminal exploration of the much neglected but fundamentally important humanistic foundation of public administration that persists across temporal, spatial, and cultural contexts. A must-read for students caring about the true nature of public administration.’