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Volume 19, 1

Articles

On the Futility of Universalism
Michael M. Harmon

From Managerialism and Economic Rationalism: Towards "Re-Inventing" Economic Ideology and Administrative Diversity
Alexander Kouzmin, Robert Leivesley, and Nada Korac-Kakabadse

The Epistemic Necessity of Using Metaphors in Organizational Theory: A Constructivist Argument
G
öktuğ Morçöl

Postmodern Discourse and a Postconventional Public Administration: Is There a Normative Theory Beyond the Dichotomy?
Frank E. Scott

Measuring the Performance of the Municipal Organization: An Implementation Tale of Two Cities
Jerry Gianakis and Jeffrey B. Stone


Ideas and Commentary

Can the Toothpaste Be Pushed Back into It Tube?: The Return of Foundationalism to Public Administration
Charles J. Fox and Hugh T. Miller

Ethics in U.S. Public Administration: Self- Arrested or Castrated Agency?
Alexander Kouzmin and Robert Leivesley

A Rejoinder: With Apologies to the Flat Earth Society and Other Subjectivists: A Foundational Response to Whether Truth, Like Beauty, Is in the Eye of the Beholder
Charles Garofalo and Dean Geuras

The Feminine Mystique of Public Administration
Mohamad Alkadry

Book Reviews

Ronald F. Thiemann, Religion in Public Life
Reviewed by Larry D. Terry

Richard W. Scott, Institutions and Organization
Reviewed  by Richard T. Green

Norma M. Riccucci, Unsung Heroes: Federal Execurats Making a Difference
Reviewed by Renne Nank

Briefly Noted

Jong S. Jun, Judy Johnston, and Camilla Stivers
 

Volume 19, 2

Article

Economic Development As Political Governance
Stephen A. Maclin


Symposium: Interpretive and Critical Theories in Public Administration

Interpretive and Critical Perspectives: An Introduction
Jong S. Jun

Symbolism in Public Administration Organization Studies
Barbara Czarniawska

Passionate Humility in Interpretive Policy and Administrative Analysis
Dvora Yanow

Studying Organizational Interaction
David Silverman

It Feels Like the Right Thing To Do
Ralph P. Hummel

Putting Critical Theory to Work
Lisa A. Zanetti and Adrian Carr

Narcissistic Processes and Consulting to Organizational Change
Michael A. Diamond

Dialectic Between the Private Realm and the Public Realm
Jong S. Jun

Commentary

Responding to Misrepresentation and the Philosophically Rigid
Adrian Carr and Robert Leivesley

On Metaphors, Theoretical Eclecticism and Obscurantism: A Rejoinder
Göktuğ Morçöl

Volume 19, 3

Article

Jung's Psychological Types: The Impact of Rational Organizational Upon the Unconscious
Kaaren Hedblom Jacobson

Symposium-Learning from Natural Sciences

Learning from the Natural Sciences: An Introduction
Göktuğ Morçöl

A Meno Paradox for Public Administration: Have We Acquired a Radically New Knowledge from the "New Sciences"?
Göktuğ Morçöl

What Can Public Administration Learn from Complex Systems Theory?
William H. Newell and Jack Meek

Incorporating Nonlinear Thinking into Public Administration's Purview
Virginia K. Sweet

Maturana, Luhmann, and Self-Referential Government: Is Democratic Administration Even Possible?
John H. Little

Imagining Anticipatory Government: A Speculative Essay on Quantum Theory and Visualization
Karen G. Evans

In Search of Truth: Eastern Metaphysics, Quantum Science and Public Administration Philosophy
Nancy Murray

A Symmetry Break: The Ethics of a Bifurcation in the Sciences
Linda Dennard

Commentary

Citizen and Public Administrator: Rearranging the Connection
Ralph R. Widner

Book Reviews

O.C. McSwite, Legitimacy in Public Administration: A Discourse Analysis
Reviewed by David John Farmer

Sonia Ospina, Illusions of Opportunity: Employee Expectations and Workplace Inequality
Reviewed by Mary E. Guy

Gibson Burrell, Pandemonium: Towards a Retro-Organization Theory
Reviewed by Adrian Carr