The Pedagogy of ‘Governance’

Sheila Suess Kennedy

Deanna Malatesta

Section One: Introduction

Public administration scholars and schools of public affairs increasingly use the term ‘governance’ to describe the processes they study and teach. Governance—rather than the older word ‘government’—is thought to be a more accurate descriptor of the reality of contemporary state structures, [...]

Vol. 18 No. 11 (November, 2008) pp.

Public Freedom, by Dana Villa.  
Princeton:

Princeton
University Press, 2008.  448pp.

Cloth.  $75.00/£44.95.  ISBN: 9780691135939. Paper.  $24.95/£14.95.  ISBN: 9780691135946.

Reviewed by Sheila Suess Kennedy,

School of
Public & Environmental Affairs,

Indiana
University-Purdue
University
Indianapolis.  Email: shekenne [at] iupui.edu.

Some scholars stake out an area of inquiry that is tightly focused and contained, scholarly real estate small enough to be [...]

Book Review
Bureaucracy in a Democratic State: A Governance Perspective

Kenneth J. Meier

Lawrence J. O’Toole, Jr.

Johns
Hopkins
University Press, Baltimore

Kenneth Meier and Lawrence O’Toole are to be complimented for wading once again into the muddy waters of the ongoing public administration debate over “which is the dog and which is the tail”—the thorny question of the relative power of [...]

Review of Public Freedom by Dana Villa

Princeton University Press (2008)

Sheila Suess Kennedy
Professor, Law & Public Policy
School of Public & Environmental Affairs
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

Some scholars stake out an area of inquiry that is tightly focused and contained, scholarly real estate small enough to be examined and parsed so completely as to be effectively “owned”—an [...]