The literature on transitions recommends that both the government and the civil service should engage with profound societal problems requiring a fundamental socio-technical system change. We analyzed a corpus of 100 publications to cluster the transition tasks that the transitions literature attributes to government. These tasks are set off against the normative arguments of the Public Administration (PA) traditions that legitimize government action. Our analysis shows that although some traditions present a normative basis for specific tasks, many of the transition tasks assigned to government do not align well with any of the PA traditions. Thus, the normative basis for legitimizing sociotechnical transitions provided by the PA traditions, is inadequate. This finding is consistent with the recently flagged urgent need for a new, legitimizing rationale for societal transition. We conclude by presenting the contours of transformative government as a new PA tradition to legitimize the government' s transition tasks.

有关过渡的文献建议政府和公务员都应参与深刻的社会问题，这些问题需要对社会技术系统进行根本性的改变。我们分析了100种出版物的语料库，以归纳过渡文献归因于政府的过渡任务。这些任务与将政府行动合法化的公共管理（PA）传统的规范性论点相抵触。我们的分析表明，尽管某些传统为特定任务提供了规范基础，但分配给政府的许多过渡任务却与巴勒斯坦权力机构的任何传统都不太吻合。因此，由巴勒斯坦权力机构传统提供的使社会技术转型合法化的规范依据是不充分的。这一发现与最近提出的对新的，使社会转型合法化。最后，我们以变革性政府的轮廓作为一种新的PA传统来提出，以使政府的过渡任务合法化。