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Volume 28, 1

Article

Prophet of Participation: Mary Parker Follett and Public Participation in Public
Ricardo S. Morse

Symposium—Relevance of Public Administration Writing and Scholarship
[Coordinated by Mohamad G. Alkadry]

Introduction to the Symposium
Mohamad G. Alkadry

Notes from the Margin: Race, Relevance and the Making of Public Administration
Matthew T. Witt

Writing What’s Relevant: Workplace Incivility in Public Administration—A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
Margaret H. Vickers

Performance Anxieties: Shifting Public Administration from the Relevant to the Real
Thomas J. Catlaw

Forum

Complexity in Political-Administrative Relations and the Limits of the Dichotomy Concept
James H. Svara

In Defense of the Dichotomy: A Response to James H. Svara
Patrick Overeem

CommonSense@Admin

WAL-MART: Neo-Feudal (K)Night?
David John Farmer

Book Review

Cheryl Simrell King and Lisa A. Zanetti, Transformational Public Service: Portraits of Theory in Practice
Reviewed by Christa Daryl Slaton

Volume 28, 2

Symposium—Post-traditional Governance and Bureaucracy
[Coordinated by David John Farmer]

Imagine! Preface to the Post-Traditional
David John Farmer

Public Administration as the Carrier of the New Social Bond
O. C. McSwite

The Death of the Practitioner
Thomas J. Catlaw

Training a “New” Consciousness
Catherine Horiuchi

Towards a Praxis Less Traditional: Never a Straight Line
Matthew T. Witt

A Guide to Grief in Public Administration
Margaret H. Vickers

Learning to Play the “Pea and Thimble” Charade—the Invisible and Very Visible Hands in the Neo-Liberal Project: Towards a Manifesto for Reflexive Consciousness in Public Administration
Kym Thorne and Alexander Kouzmin

Rambling with Zhuangzi: Imagination and Spontaneity for Public Administration and Governance
Swan Hua Xu

Lobby(ectomy): Not in Our Tradition
David John Farmer

Volume 28, 3

Articles

“We Don’t Need No Stinking Badges”—Modernists vs. Postmodernists: Kant, Foucault, Weber, Loewith, Arendt
Ralph P. Hummel

When Political Crimes Are Inside Jobs: Detecting State Crimes against Democracy
Lance deHaven-Smith

Symposium— Public Administration Theories of Feminism
[Coordinated by Janet R. Hutchinson]

Beyond Public vs. Private: The Transformative Potential of Democratic Feminist Management
Patricia Mooney Nickel and Angela M. Eikenberry

Who Are We Dealing With? Re-visioning Citizen Subjects from a Feminist Perspective
Jennifer L. Eagan

Gender Anarchy and the Future of Feminisms in Public Administration
Janet R. Hutchinson and Hollie S. Mann

Democracy and the Social Feminist Ethics of Jane Addams: A Vision for Public Administration
Patricia M. Shields

Lost and Found: Gender, Narrative, Miss Burchfield, and the Construction of Knowledge in Public Administration
DeLysa Burnier

CommonSense@Admin


The Spirit of Our Age: PA-think as Uncovering
David John Farmer

Book Review


Wiesenthal, Simon, The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
Reviewed by Patricia M Patterson

Volume 28, 4

Articles

What Happened on the Way to Postmodern? Part II
David M. Boje

Symposium—The Destiny of Theory: Beyond The New Science of Organizations
[Coordinated by Gaylord George Candler and Curtis Ventriss]

Introduction to the Symposium
Gaylord George Candler and Curtis Ventriss

Alberto Guerreiro Ramos’s Anthropological Approach to the Social Sciences: The Parenthetical Man
Ariston Azevêdo and Renata Ovenhausen Albernaz

The Theory of Social Systems Delimitation and the Reconceptualization of Public Administration
Jos
é Francisco Salm, Gaylord George Candler, and Curtis Ventriss

Linguistic Diglossia and Parochialism in American Public Administration: The Missing Half of Guerreiro Ramos’s
Redução Sociológica
Gaylord George Candler

Rationality, the Public Sphere, and the State: The Relevance of Alberto Guerreiro Ramos in a Field That Has Largely
Forgotten Him
Emilian Geczi and Curtis Ventriss


Forum—Intergenerational Dialogue on Public Administration Theory
[Introduction by Patricia Mooney Nickel]

Angela M. Eikenberry, Christopher J. Koliba, Ryan L. Lanham, Jan Rommel and Johan Christiaens, Margaret Stout, and Sara R. Jordan

Book Reviews

Rosemary O’Leary, The Ethics of Dissent: Managing Guerrilla Government
Reviewed by Brett S. Sharp

Kwame Anthony Appiah, Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers
Reviewed by Matthew T. Witt

CommonSense@Admin


Neuro-gov: Neuroscience and Governance
David John Farmer