Post-Traditional Public Administration Theory

David John Farmer is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Public Affairs at the School of Government and Public Affairs, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA. He has worked as a budget, an administrative and an economic analyst. He was Special Assistant to the N.Y.P.D. Police Commissioner and a Division Director in the U.S. Justice Department.

• Introduction1. Contemplating Bureaucracies: A Tale of Identities – Essay 42. In the Pink?3. Contemplating Cops: A Tale of Identities – Essay 14. Contemplating Cops: A Tale of Identities – Essay 25. Contemplating Bureaucracies: A Tale of Identities – Essay 36. Imagine! Preface to the Post-Traditional7. Theorizing in Perspective: Epistemic Pluralism8. The Allure of Rhetoric and the Truancy of Poetry9. Because My Master Bathes Me10. Mapping Anti-Administration: Introduction to the Symposium11. Dogs of War: Fighting Back12. Public Administration in a World of Economics13. Coping With The Super-Abstract: Teaching About the Implications of Postmodernism for Public Administration14. A Conversation Between Song Jinzhou and David John Farmer15. The Ladder of Organization-Think: Beyond Flatland16. Red Queen17. Power Speaking v. Speaking to Power: A Discourse War?18. Fractured Governmentality: A Night in the Emergency Room (E.R.)19. Froglets or Fairy Tales?20. Tonto and the Lone Ranger: Concepts Reveal, Concepts Mask21. Expanding the Ethical Sphere22. Medusa: Helene Cixous and the Writing of Laughter23. Somatic Writing: Attending to Our Bodies24. Silence25. Power of Refusal: Introduction to the Symposium26. Anti-Admin: With Help from Herbert Marcuse27. Love and Un-Engineering28. The Devil's Rope29. Frigginomics Begins in Kindergarten: The Social Construction of "Normal" Citizens and Their Dreams30. Wal-Mart®: Neo-Feudal (K)Night?31. Change the Course, Neurons!32. The Spirit of Our Age: PA-think as Uncovering33. A Dancing Star: Arguments From Imagination