TY - JOUR
T1 - Understanding and explaining civil service reform
T2 - a reply to Dowding and James
AU - Marsh, D.
AU - Richards, D.
AU - Smith, M.J.
PY - 2004/4/26
Y1 - 2004/4/26
N2 - Dowding and James's response to our critique of the bureau-shaping model makes some important criticisms that we welcome. However, we suggest that they ignore the empirical evidence we presented in our original article (because of their narrow definition of acceptable data) and we believe that they misunderstand our arguments because of the positivist paradigm within which they operate. Our response covers three main issues – epistemology, methods and evidence.
AB - Dowding and James's response to our critique of the bureau-shaping model makes some important criticisms that we welcome. However, we suggest that they ignore the empirical evidence we presented in our original article (because of their narrow definition of acceptable data) and we believe that they misunderstand our arguments because of the positivist paradigm within which they operate. Our response covers three main issues – epistemology, methods and evidence.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-0347301853&partnerID=MN8TOARS
U2 - 10.1017/S0007123403260397
DO - 10.1017/S0007123403260397
M3 - Article
SN - 0007-1234
VL - 34
SP - 189
EP - 192
JO - British Journal of Political Science
JF - British Journal of Political Science
IS - 1
ER -