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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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Proposed PAT-Net Bylaws are available for review and comment here.

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Volume 33, 1

Article

Explaining the Democratic Anchorage of Governance Networks: Evidence from Four European Countries 
Chris Skelcher, Erik-Hans Klijn, Daniel Kübler, Eva Sørensen, and Helen Sullivan 

Symposium—Purity and Danger
 

Introduction 
Patricia M. Patterson 

Purity and Democracy: Beauty Ideals and Pollution Reduction in Democratic Reform 
Frank Hendriks 

Fear Thy Neighbor: Ontological Security and the Illusion of National Purity 
Dragan Staniševski 

And We Shall Purify: On Truth-Seeking After Cruelty and Repression 
Patricia M. Patterson
 

Forum--Student Reflections on the 2010 Pat-Net Conference, Part 1 

Staking my Claim on the Study of Public Administration: A Reflection on PAT-Net 
Laura Hand 

Listening with Expectancy 
Craig M. Wickstrom 

Rethinking Difference in Public Administration 
Nicole M. Rishel 

Process, Pluralism, Participation: A PhD Student Perspective 
Jennifer A. Taylor 

Reflections on Theory in Action 

Exemplary Practitioners: A Review of Actors Who Make a Difference in Governing 
Merlijn van Hulst, Laurens de Graaf, and Gabriël van den Brink 

Book Reviews
 
Michael W. Spicer. In Defense of Politics in Public Administration: A Value Pluralist Perspective 
Reviewed by Michael M. Harmon 

Elaine Scarry. Rule of Law, Misrule of Man. 
Reviewed by Julia Beckett 

Volume 33, 2


Editor’s Note

Articles

Marcuse Was “Right”: One-Dimensional Society in the Twenty-First Century
Richard C. Box

The Emergence of Partisans and Terrorists: How Enemies of the State Mold Public Action
Chad B. Newswander

Bullying Targets as Social Performers in the Public Administration (PA) Workplace
Margaret H. Vickers

Comparative Administration: Ontology and Epistemology in Cross-Cultural Research
Jessica Terman

Tragedy as Democratic Education: The Case of Classical Athens
Geoffrey W. Bakewell

The Ontology of Process Philosophy in Follett’s Administrative Theory
Margaret Stout and Carrie M. Staton

Forum-- Student Reflections on the 2010 PAT-Net Conference, Part 2

Fleeting Images from a PAT-Net Conference
Jeffrey Callen

Alternative Ways of Thinking about Expertise
David Oliver Kasdan

PAT-Net: A First Look into the World of Theory
Carrie M. Staton

A Tale of Two Conferences
Michelle L. DiStefano

Book Review

John Forester, Dealing with Differences: Dramas of Mediating Public Disputes.
Reviewed by Cheryl Simrell King

Volume 33, 3


Editor’s Note 

Symposium--Public Administration and Social Media 

Social Media and Public Administration: Theoretical Dimensions and Introduction to Symposium 
Thomas A. Bryer and Staci M. Zavattaro 

The Costs of Democratization: Social Media Adaptation Challenges within Government Agencies 
Thomas A. Bryer 

“You Have One Friend Request”: An Exploration of Power and Citizen Engagement in Local Governments' Use of Social Media 
Laura C. Hand and Brandon D. Ching 

Electronic Commons, Community Policing and Communication: Online Police-Citizen Discussion Groups in Washington, DC 
Lori A. Brainard and Teresa Derrick-Mills 

Digitizing Deliberation: Normative Concerns for the Use of Social Media in Deliberative Democracy 
Nicole M. Rishel 

Forum--Mark Bevir’s Democratic Governance: Readings and Reactions 

What’s in a Word? 
Abigail Ware Kelso and Cheryl Simrell King 

Narrative Forms and Political Actions: An Essay on Mark Bevir’s Democratic Governance 
Thomas J. Catlaw and Margaretha Warnicke 

Bureaucracy Is No Longer the Technically Superior Form of Organization? 
Hugh T. Miller 

Genealogy and Subjects: How Narratives Become Incarnate 
Jennifer L. Eagan 

The Aporias of Democracy: Grasping for the Shadows 
Dragan Staniševski 

Inviting the Cold Monster to a Tea Party 
R. McGreggor Cawley 

The Role of the Judiciary in New Governance 
Christine M. Reed 

Some Reflections on Rationality, Argument, and Conflict 
Michael W. Spicer 

Democratic Governance: A Response to Commentaries 
Mark Bevir 

Book Review 

Stephen J. Rockwell, Indian Affairs and the Administrative State in the Nineteenth Century. 
Reviewed by Camilla Stivers

Volume 33, 4