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This is the "blog" feature of our website. Please use it to comment on any article or essay in ATP. We hope the dialog will both inform and entertain. 

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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The image in the website's header is Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Effects of Good Government on City Life, Palsazzo Publico, Siena, Italy. It is part of a larger series of frescos. The image is in the public domain and used under the terms of Wikimedia Commons.

Volume 9, 1

Articles

The Agency Perspective and Local Government Administration
Henry J. Anna

American Political Theory and the Bureaucracy
Raymond Cox

Volume 9, 2

Articles

What Do We Want When We Ask for Competence? Some Ideas Relevant to Public Administration
Henry D. Kass

Bureaucracy and Pornography
Robert Miewald

Linking Theory and Practice: Professional Discretion and the Contingencies of Choice
Annette M. Sassi

Volume 9, 3

Articles

The Once and Future Organization
J.J. Hendricks and Gary C. Shaw

Public Administration and the Idea of Wilderness
Hugh T. Miller

Readers Write--"On Kass"
Frederick C. Thayer

Volume 9, 4

Articles

Public Administration as Felt Relationship
Larry Cobb

How the City Manger Sees Self: Approaching the Theory-Practice Problem Via Burnout Phases
Robert T. Golembiewski and Byong-Seob Kim

"To Act as a Profession…"
Richard T. Mayer

A Structuralist Perspective on Organizational Ethos
Cynthia J. McSwain