公共价值的类别划分？公共行政中的价值分类的偶然性

Abstract

Do classifications of values as presented in the study of public administration make sense? In this article, an overview of values in public administration is discussed and, in particular, a number of attempts to rank and order these values are discussed. The need to, and possibility of, distinguishing levels, categories, syndromes, constellations, families, sets, clusters, and so on of values is generally acknowledged. All categorizations and typologies, however, prove to be tentative and helpful only as descriptive, analytic tools. It is argued that the validity and usefulness of any typology of values relies on the justification of the approach taken. This is, however, where most authors fall short of what is demanded to appraise their categorizations and typologies