since the evolution of public administration as an academic and scientific discipline, different competitive approaches have come forward in this area. public administration as a profession, a scientific field and a political process; or, public administration as an area totally distinguished from business management; and legal, political and administrative approaches towards public administrat...

Evolutionary psychological theories have engendered much skepticism in the modern scientific climate. Why? We argue that, although sometimes couched in the language of unfalsifiability, the skepticism results primarily from the perception that evolutionary theories are less verifiable than traditional psychological theories. It is more difficult to be convinced of the veracity of an evolutionar...

BACKGROUND In a Forum article Le Bourg (1998) criticized recent tests of evolutionary theories of aging and suggested alternative explanations for the long lifespan of ant queens and the positive relationship between body size and lifespan in mammals. Moreover, he attempts to criticize evolutionary theories of aging by showing that explanations other than evolutionary theories of aging probably...

In recent years there has been an explosion of interest in evolutionary theory in wide variety of scientific domains. In fields as diverse as computer science, philosophy, economics, sociology, psychology, biology, and anthropology “evolutionary thinking” (Dennett 1995) has come to the forefront of the discipline. Political scientists use the term “evolution” quite often as well, but generally ...