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Chapter 4
How the Traditions
Framework Was Created
Introduction
It is important to understand the specic manner in which the Traditions presented
in this book were developed. In other words, how can there be three Traditions of
public administration, and where is the proof? is chapter answers these ques-
tions, while explaining sociologist Max Weber’s (1949, 1994c) ideal- type method.
Employing the Ideal- Type Method
A series of hypotheses framed the inquiry (Stout 2007). e rst posited that ide-
ations of the public administrator’s role are linked to dierent meanings of legiti-
macy; that there is a relationship between role conceptualization ...