A better grounded view is to be found in The Public Administration Theory Primer:
Essentials of Public Policy and Administration, by Frederickson et al. (2012). The book
introduces rational choice as both the new orthodoxy and as an ongoing ‘‘challenge to the
prescriptive arguments taken from traditional public administration scholarship’’,
explaining that some of rational choice’s theory advocates argue that ‘‘it should be adopted
as the core paradigm of the discipline’’. That is to say that ‘‘these advocates present rational