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July 2006
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Administrative Theory & Praxis
The U.S constitutional tradition finessed the question of the social bond. The decline of the modernist era makes it important to address the matter of the social bond and to reorient the field to this generic issue. A psychoanalytic perspective, specifically the one developed by Jacques Lacan, is helpful in providing a framework for such a reorientation. This analysis demonstrates that the failed bond of modernism is being replaced by the one implicit in the market economy. Since this bond is unstable and necessarily temporary, public administrators now and in the future must establish a new kind of social bond with others in the process of carrying out the work of public agencies. In order to accomplish this, public administrators must develop a different, psychoanalytically informed relationship to themselves.
January 2006
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Administration & Society
March 2005
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Administration & Society
September 2004
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Administration & Society
Camilla Stivers’book, Bureau Men, Settlement Women, is being misread as a feminist political tract and overlooked as the resource that it is for the field of public administration. A review of the current literature of feminism reveals that Stivers’work, a historical study of the New York Bureau of Municipal Research, cannot be described by any version of feminist theory. Rather, her central concern is how the male-dominated Bureau movement pushed the field away from the model of the city as “home”—which developed in the women’s reform movement—and toward the idea of the city as “business.” A Lacanian psychoanalytic reading reveals a critical implication of her research: The women’s movement carried the potential to bring a balance to public agency discourse, one adequate for the new realities that the social problems of the day required. The administration as business model denies the achievement of this balance.
May 2003
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Administrative Theory & Praxis
December 2002
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Public Administration Review
In this issue, Cynthia McSwain and Orion White, writing under the nom de plume O.C. McSwite, address the issue of theory in MPA education. This is an important aspect of the larger theory–practice question in public administration, especially given the large number of MPA students who are mid-career managers rather than pre-service students. McSwite's position is that theoretical competency does not consist of specific content, such as theories of the budgeting process; rather, it is a frame of mind that helps practitioners “know what kind of situation they are in.” While McSwite's path to this conclusion is unique, it is also consistent with the approach taken in Donald Schon's The Reflective Practitioner. Both McSwite and Schon recognize how basic to good practice is this ability to size up situations in a systematic and useful way. As always, readers are invited to comment either directly to the authors or to the associate editor.
December 2001
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Administrative Theory & Praxis
David Farmer’s theory of anti-administration is heterodox to the point of posing a paradigmatic challenge to conventional rational thinking about administrative action. It can be described as orienting itself around the following premises:1. Anti-administration can only be realized through application.2. Official, prescribed, or conventional positions must be questioned, as doubt is the path to clarity.3. Abstractions cannot be trusted so action must be engaged with hesitancy.Lacanian psychoanalytic theory provides a rationale for these by suggesting that since neurotic resistance is universal among human beings, institutional structure and dynamics are apt to be flawed and should not be taken for granted. Anti-administration is especially relevant to the contemporary world because practicing it renews the social bond–which is eroding rapidly under the corrosive effects of economic globalization. A number of developments on the intellectual and social scene suggest that conditions favorable to the anti-administration framework are spreading.
June 2001
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May 2001
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Organization
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... However, this further implies that policies aimed at redefining the purpose of policing tools (or the police) may alter policing patterns and disparities. I should note that this does not mean that individual officers may not also be a source of bias, as the individuals that operate within an institution likewise shape that institution and have discretion in their operation within it (Gofen 2014;McSwite 2003). ...
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May 2003
Administrative Theory & Praxis
... The other major line of inquiry within the psychoanalytical tradition in public management concerns the disciplinary identity of PA research and praxis. This work is primarily driven by the pioneering work of McSwite (1997McSwite ( , 2001McSwite ( , 2003McSwite ( , 2004McSwite ( , 2006 who, in a series of articles, highlighted how a psychoanalysis-based understanding of human subjectivity could help reorient PA research and practice as the career of the new social bond in the twenty-first century (McSwite, 2006). McSwite further argued that a Lacanian understanding of the human subject also problematized reliance on "the rationalist, realist epistemology" in social science research as it did not account for the foundational paradoxes and fantasies that form the basis of human behavior (McSwite, 1997(McSwite, , 2003. ...
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July 2006
Administrative Theory & Praxis
... The other major line of inquiry within the psychoanalytical tradition in public management concerns the disciplinary identity of PA research and praxis. This work is primarily driven by the pioneering work of McSwite (1997McSwite ( , 2001McSwite ( , 2003McSwite ( , 2004McSwite ( , 2006 who, in a series of articles, highlighted how a psychoanalysis-based understanding of human subjectivity could help reorient PA research and practice as the career of the new social bond in the twenty-first century (McSwite, 2006). McSwite further argued that a Lacanian understanding of the human subject also problematized reliance on "the rationalist, realist epistemology" in social science research as it did not account for the foundational paradoxes and fantasies that form the basis of human behavior (McSwite, 1997(McSwite, , 2003. ...
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December 2001
Administrative Theory & Praxis
... Further, by assuming that a disability category is an interactional resource, we epistemologically oriented to the able-bodiedness or disabled-bodiedness as being produced by and existing in discourse (Coupland and Gwyn, 2003). Like McSwite (2001), we critique the reification of the body as located outside of discourse, and suggest instead that the body is located in discourse. In other words, the 'world of words' which 'creates the worlds of things' (Lacan, 1977: 65) includes the body. ...
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Performative acts of autism
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June 2001
Administrative Theory & Praxis
... McSwite's analysis integrates aspects of Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytical theory into a discourse approach that acknowledges the importance of collaborative relationships forged through continuous communication processes. These ideas are grounded in the concept of social ontology where human beings become a product of interactions with others, as relationships develop and meaning is created from this process of interaction (McSwite 1997(McSwite , 1999. This is reinforced in an essay written by Orion White, which was offered in response to ideas presented in Fox and Miller's book on postmodernism, as discussed above. ...
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December 1999
Administrative Theory & Praxis
... In 1996, the cover took on the appearance of a standard journal (remaining in the 8 1 /2 by 11 inch size) with a squared spine, and the inside pages were printed in doublecolumn format. In 1997, Richard VrMeer dropped out of the co-edito-rial role, leaving Jong Jun as the editor from -1999. The years 1993-1999 are referred to here as the "first ATP" period. ...
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March 1999
Administrative Theory & Praxis
... Not infrequently, scientists note [5][6][7][8][9] that the effectiveness of assessing human resources for their functioning and development depends on the effectiveness of the mechanism for assessing modern threats used in the public administration system. The mechanism for assessing human resources in the public administration system should take into account modern threats. ...
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March 2005
Administration & Society
... Signification is the process by which a more-or-less stable framework or order is established and replicated so that understandable action is possible. While this is akin to the creation and maintenance of the symbolic order described by Catlaw and Marshall (2018;also see Catlaw, 2007;McSwite, 2004McSwite, , 2006, one important distinction in how Deleuze and Guattari describe the regime of signs is that it is necessarily intertwined with the dynamics of societies of control. As such, the regime of signs, which comprise all chains of signification, are inseparably informed by forces that reterritorialize difference back into the machine of the neoliberal state. ...
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September 2004
Administration & Society
... One other line of inquiry further defies the possibility of modernist ethics from being effective in resolving the paradox of harms and wrongs. In localities perceived as being besieged by high levels of crime, law enforcement is susceptible to a particular logic that leverages a rhetorical use of evil to demand a response that ultimately becomes evil as well (Anderson, 2006;McSwite, 2006). When crime is characterized as being evil, inaction is unacceptable and the severity of the response must be commensurate to the moral repugnance of the original act. ...
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Social Justice and Qualitative Praxis
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January 2006
Administration & Society
... McSwite's contention was that this question, as framed by Friedrich-Finer, is fundamentally irresolvable as an empirical matter, and so no unequivocal normative position could be derived from human nature. Other texts by Mc-Swite argued against any kind of normative content to human nature as well as any static biological content, and by extension against any kind of teleological or developmental humanism (McSwite, 1995(McSwite, , 2005, such as advanced by organizational humanists. We would concur with these conclusions. ...
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Regarding the Animal
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May 1995
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