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Dragan Stanisevski will join the ATP editorial team as the Forum Editor. Official start date is January 2013, but he is already the person to contact if you have suggestions for Forum topics. Email Dragan 

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Volume 31, 1

Article

Good Governance in Network Society: Reconfiguring the Political from Politics to Policy
Henrik Bang and Anders Esmark

Symposium—Network Theory in the Twenty-first Century: New Direction or Dead-End for Public Administration?


Introduction
Kym Thorne

Network and Complexity Theories: A Comparison and Prospects for a Synthesis
Göktuğ Morçöl and Aaron Wachhaus

Networks in Contemporary Public Administration: A Discourse Analysis
Aaron Wachhaus

The Challenge of Social Networks
O.C. McSwite Inc.

Forum—Minnowbrook III—Part 1

Parsing the “Minnowbrook Tradition”
Mary Timney

Minnowbrook III: What Was Missing? Procedural Justice and Back Bone
Thomas A. Bryer

Midnight in the Garden of PA
Matthew T. Witt, Alexander Kouzmin, Kym Thorne, and Lance deHaven Smith

Legacies and Diversity: Post-Gathering Reflections on Minnowbrook III
Kyle Farmbry

Mobilization via Frustration: A Minnowbrook III Tradition?
Erik Johnston and Yushim Kim

Reflections on Theory in Action


Improving Quality and Creating Democracy in the Classroom: Student Management Teams
Angela M. Eikenberry with Erin N. Blaszak, Shelby L. Buettner, Beth A. Morrissette, and R. J. Redden

Book Review

Camilla Stivers, Governance in Dark Times: Practical Philosophy for Public Service.
Reviewed by DeLysa Burnier

Thank You to 2008 Reviewers

Volume 31, 2

Symposium--Public Administration, Social Equity, and Social Justice: Future Journeys and Roads Less Traveled

Introduction
Gaylord George Candler, Richard Greggory Johnson III, and Jonathan F. Anderson

Equity, Social Justice, and Sustainable Urban Transportation in the Twenty-First Century
Jean Mercier

Space and Inequality: A Case Study of Territorial Development in Santa Catarina
Carolina Andion, Maurício Serva, Ademir Antônio Cazella, and Paulo Freire Vieira

Parades of Reforms and the Quest for Social Equity: The Kenyan Case
Obuya Bagaka

Public Administration and the Increased Need for Cultural Competencies in the Twenty-First Century
Richard Greggory Johnson III and Espiridion Borrego

The Epic of Social Equity: Evolution, Essence, and Emergence (Invited Essay)
Blue Wooldridge and Susan Gooden

Afterword
Gaylord George Candler, Richard Greggory Johnson III, and Jonathan F. Anderson


Forum
Minnowbrook III—Part 2

Reflections from a “Minnow”
Margaret Stout

A View of Lake Placid from a Hong Kong Hillside: What Does the World of Public Administration Scholarship Get from Another Minnowbrook?
Sara Jordan

Minnowbrook III: Fear and (Not Enough) Loathing in Blue Mountain Lake
Shelly L. Peffer

Minnowbrook: Just American or More?
Roger Wettenhall

A Moment of Opportunity
Jeffrey C. Callen

Interview

A Conversation between Song Jinzhou and David John Farmer

Book Reviews


Richard C. Box, Making a Difference: Progressive Values in Public Administration.
Reviewed by Stefano Harney

Dorothy F. Olshfski and Robert B. Cunningham, Agendas and Decisions: How State Government Executives and Middle Managers Make and Administer Policy
Reviewed by Mohamad G. Alkadry

Volume 31, 3

Symposium—Vectors of Reform: From Hermeneutics to Discourse Analysis

Introduction
Hugh T. Miller

The Hermeneutics of Government Contracting: Questions of Meaning, Anti-Essentialism, and Anti-Foundationalism
Jay D. White

Illusions of Accountability: Credit and Blame Sensemaking in Public Administration
Jonathan Anderson

Postmodern Border Insecurity: Rationality, Discourse, and Anti-Essentialism
Kenneth N. Hansen

Antiessentialism, Parrhesia, and Citizenship
Arthur J. Sementelli

Idle Thoughts on Method, Agony, and Pretense
Ricardo Schmukler


Forum—The End of the Free Market?

Fairness, Efficiency, and the Making of Markets
Stephen G. Engelmann

Markets No More: Towards a Care-Centered Public Administration
DeLysa Burnier

The Political Economy of Government Intervention in the Free Market System
Stephen K. Aikins

The Financial Crisis of 2008: A Clarion Call to Include Economic Policy and Financial Illiteracy on Public Administration’s Intellectual Radar Screen
Howard Frank

Dispelling the Myth of the Invisible Hand: An Argument for Democratically Legitimate Interorganizational Governance Networks
Christopher Koliba and Asim Zia

Economic Delusions and Denial: Modernist and Postmodernist Strains
Alexander Kouzmin, Matthew Witt, Lance deHaven-Smith, and Kym Thorne


Book Review

Dorothy F. Olshfski and Robert B. Cunningham, Agendas and Decisions: How State Government Executives and Middle Managers Make and Administer Policy
Reviewed by Mohamad G. Alkadry

Volume 31, 4

Articles

The Disregard for Weber’s Herrschaft: The Relevance of Weber’s Ideal Type of Bureaucracy for the Modern Study of Public Administration
Koen P.R. Bartels

The European Employment Strategy and the Governing of French Employment Policies
Peter Triantafillou

Politics and Administration: Three Schools, Three Approaches, and Three Suggestions
Tansu Demir

Symposium--Public Law and PA Theory

Introduction
Christine M. Reed

Value Conflict and Legal Reasoning in Public Administration
Michael W. Spicer

Administrative “Interpretation” as Policymaking: An Abuse of Discretion by Presidential Administrations
Larry S. Luton

Institutional Reform Litigation in an Era of Governance
Christine M. Reed

Forum--Reflections on Camilla Stivers’s Bureau Men, Settlement Women: Constructing Public Administration in the Progressive Era—Part 1

The Shock of Recognition: Reflections on Bureau Men, Settlement Women
DeLysa Burnier

Settlement Women Are Alive and Well in Community Development
Margaret Stout

Echoes of Settlement Women in Public Administration: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Helisse Levine

Retrieving Our Shadow Side: Stivers’ Contribution to Public Administration
Jennifer Alexander

Book Reviews

John D. Whyte (Ed.). Moving Toward Justice: Legal Traditions and Aboriginal Justice.
Reviewed by David Case

Will Kymlicka and Bashir Bashir. (Eds.). The Politics of Reconciliation in Multicultural Societies.
Reviewed by Dragan Staniševski

Book Review Response

Comments on Stefano Harney’s Review of Making a Difference: Progressive Values in Public Administration
Richard C. Box

2009 PAT-Net Conference Report

Reflections on a Themeless Conference: PAT-Net 2009, Frankfort, Kentucky
Margaret Stout and Thomas A. Bryer