ABSTRACT
This article argues that public administration should focus on fighting back against the American business model, which currently limits the world of the public sector and public administration. It offers five claims intended to help public administration develop a fighting counter-strategy derived from the attack plans of American business model advocates: (1) that the American business model is more than a mere model—it includes institutional, programmatic, and money investment in an attack strategy against the public sector; (2) that public administration should attack the myths underlying the American business model, using hermeneutics and deconstruction; (3) that it should counter-attack American business model’s rhetoric; (4) that it should contribute to economic literature, a foundational support of the American business model; and (5) that it should appropriately revise its academic program requirements for practitioners and others.
