1st Edition

Public Administration and Epistemology Experience, Power, and Agency

By Arthur Sementelli Copyright 2021
206 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

206 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

206 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Knowledge does not happen in a vacuum, yet scholars and other professionals tend to engage in management scholarship focused on their specific niche often without knowing if or how their work might relate to other research streams. Further exacerbating things, people within specific disciplines, including management, tend not to communicate regularly outside of their relatively homogeneous... Read more

Part 1:  The Frame. 1. A question of experience: Jaspers and Key Concepts. 2.  A Matter of Agency. 3.  A Matter of Power. 4. The Sandbox. Part 2:  Archetypes: The Powerless. 5.  Infantilization. 6.  Alienation. 7. Resistance. 8.  Asceticism. Part 3: Archetypes: The Powerful. 9. Domination. 10. Radicals. 11. Statesmanship. 12. Maieutics. Part 4: Implications and Limits. 13. Toward an Existential understanding of Administration

Biography

Arthur J. Sementelli is Professor and Ph.D. Program Coordinator in the School of Public Administration at Florida Atlantic University, USA.