Thomas J Catlaw
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 285880 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Thomas J Catlaw |
| NOMBRES | Thomas J |
| APELLIDO | Catlaw |
| FIRMA | CATLAW T J |
| AFILIACIONES | Arizona State University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 127 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
When we can’t handle the truth
The Occupy Movement (“Occupy”) was largely ignored by public administration scholars. In this paper we argue that letting Occupy pass by without substantive analysis is unfortunate because it represented an opportunity for public administration to learn and reflect on critically important issues. Occupy was an important moment of truth-telling in US politics and prefiguring of a different way of life, yet it revealed the field’s inability to hear…
Accomplishing the Public Encounter
Public encounters between street-level bureaucrats and citizens predominantly function through interpersonal interactions. However, there has been relatively little study of the role of talk, what we refer to as language-in-use, in accomplishing the tasks and related objectives within the encounter. This oversight has limited our understanding of the collaborative, negotiated process of public encounters, rendered citizens mostly invisible, and l…
Enjoy Your Work! The Fantasy of the Neoliberal Workplace and Its Consequences for the Entrepreneurial Subject
This article critically examines the ways in which organizational performance and audit practices intersect with the dynamics of contemporary capitalism, managerialism, and individualism to shape the experience of the entrepreneurial, “postneurotic” subject at work. Drawing from Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, the article argues that the conditions for the contemporary subject are characterized by the declining efficacy of the Symbolic order, whi…
Introduction to “Contemplating Bureaucracies
Introduction to “Contemplating Bureaucracies: A Tale of Identities—Essay 4” by David John Farmer." Administrative Theory & Praxis, 40(1), pp. 81–82
The Quantified Self and the Evolution of Neoliberal Self-Government
This article examines the “citizen side” of the performance and audit revolution through an exploration of individuals engaged in a “data-driven life.” Through an exploratory qualitative study of individuals’ video logs taken from the “Quantified Self” Web site, we examine how individuals are using information technology and Web 2.0 interfaces to generate data about themselves for themselves. We explore the questions, “Who are the subjects of gov…
Introduction to “Contemplating Cops
This second of four essays continues the first essay’s central theme of openness, but also illustrates several key analytic strategies visible in David Farmer’s work. First, inspired in part by psy
Introduction to the Invited Essays by David John Farmer
David John Farmer stands as one of the most significant theorists of public administration. In groundbreaking books such as The Language of Public Administration: Bureaucracy, Modernity, and Postmo
Introduction to “Contemplating Bureaucracies
Identity may be thought of as the situated ways in which our bodies and subjectivities engage with and make-our-way through the world in which we dwell. But identity also is, as David Farmer sugges
Governing Small‐Town America Today
This essay examines the governance of small towns in the United States. Small towns have received little attention in the public administration literature to date, yet 1 in 10 Americans still lives in one, representing roughly 75 percent of all municipalities in the United States and some 33 million people. Small towns are characterized as dense, multiplex networks that lend unique dynamics to local politics. However, they face significant social…
Discipline and Participation
This study uses the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health data set to evaluate the long-term influence of school discipline and security on political and civic participation. We find that young adults with a history of school suspension are less likely than others to vote and volunteer in civic activities years later, suggesting that suspension negatively impacts the likelihood that youth engage in future political and civic activitie…
Is "Man" Still the Subject of Administration
Scientific advances are radically changing the relationship between government, knowledge, and citizens, thereby putting into question the content of the central subject/object of public administration—"humans." This article analyzes three interrelated problematizations in order to illuminate important aspects of this issue. The first, antihumanism, calls into question the plausibility of a universal, shared essence of humanity and "Man," Foucaul…
The Courage to Listen
Theory and practice in contemporary governance place discourse, dialogue, and storytelling at the center of the field of public administration. These speaking practices involve the capacity both to speak and to listen to what is being said. Public administration emphasizes the former and neglects the latter. But if the breakdown in our "communicative infrastructure" is to be repaired, it is as important to consider how one attends to another's sp…
What Do We Talk about When We Talk about "Research"? A Guide to Interpretive Research Talk for Natives and Nonnatives
Dangerous Government”
There has been much debate about the change Barack Obama represents. This article considers this question by using Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality to explore the underlying governmental rationality of his administration’s policies and management practices. Obama’s governmentality is examined via the Open Government Directive, arguably the central initiative of the administration. The article concludes that this governmentality may be…
Beyond Methodological Taylorism? Pluralism and the Study of Public Administration
Regarding the Animal
This article traces the anthropocentric orthodoxy of public administrative thought and scholarship to suggest how nonhuman animals give shape to the field's theoretical discourse and inform, in important and unspoken ways, its everyday practice. Even critical approaches in public administration remain rooted in anthropocentrism and speciesism and do not offer fundamental alternatives to mainstream approaches. The article outlines several of the l…
Narrative Forms and Political Actions
Crossing the Relational-Rubicon
Public Administration and “The Lives of Others”
Public administration is about how we work and live together; thus, it implies an ethic of collaboration. Despite this imperative, the ethical terrain in public administration appears divided into principle- and market-based ethics of judgment. Drawing from the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan, this article argues that both of these ethical systems unproductively rely on logically similar efforts to reconcile individual demand with the pres…
Legitimacy and Public Administration
Legitimacy claims can only be made and processes of legitimation can only unfold in a specified context. This article uses Pierre Bourdieu's concept of the social field to name this context and to analyze the construction of the bureaucratic or public administrative field in the United States. Field is meant in a triple sense-public administration as a general, institutionalized field in the structure of government; public administration as a pro…
What's the Use in Being Practical
Drawing from sociological and psychoanalytic theories and personal experience, this essay reflects on the way in which the word "practical" is used in public administration. It suggests that the field has a narrow understanding of the term, one that obscures the complex ways in which ideas, theories, and techniques are perceived as practical. The word "interesting" better describes the reception of such theories and also hints at a different, per…
Symposium—Public Administration Theory in Times of Terror and Disaster
Introduction
(2008). Introduction: Public Administration at the Margins. Administrative Theory & Praxis: Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 393-397
Governance and Networks at the Limits of Representation
Integrating literatures from public administration and social and political theory, this article provides a critical analysis of the political theory of democratic network governance. The article contends that critics and advocates alike have misrecognized the potentially transformative logic of networks by tacitly embedding their arguments and research in the taken-for-granted assumptions of representative government and its determination of pol…
Frederick Thayer and the Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
A year after his death, this article provides the first critical analysis and overview of the work of Frederick Thayer. It argues that in the contemporary context of governance, Thayer's work is more relevant than ever, but that a set of problems—including the apparent simplicity of Thayer's assault on hierarchy, his frequently bombastic prose, and the foundational nature of his critique—impede the field's engagement with his work. The article co…
Discipline and Participation
This study uses the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health data set to evaluate the long-term influence of school discipline and security on political and civic participation. We find that young adults with a history of school suspension are less likely than others to vote and volunteer in civic activities years later, suggesting that suspension negatively impacts the likelihood that youth engage in future political and civic activitie…
The Death of the Practitioner
This article examines how the term "The Practitioner" organizes knowledge and power in public administration, and how it constrains thought about the field's possibilities. The Practitioner has neither the specific qualities it posits as a representative of executive authority, nor the generic, universal quality as a neutral figure of science, stripped of all particular characteristics. The Practitioner is shown to reinforce a preoccupation with …
Authority, Representation, and the Contradictions of Posttraditional Governing
The social, economic, and political transformations of the last 30 years have ushered in a “posttraditional” order in which the institutions and practices of the past are no longer authoritative guides for action and thought. Human experience increasingly is conceived as something to be constructed and decided on without reliance on the authority of tradition. This essay argues that these transformations pose grave challenges to the mechanisms of…
Regarding the Animal
This article traces the anthropocentric orthodoxy of public administrative thought and scholarship to suggest how nonhuman animals give shape to the field's theoretical discourse and inform, in important and unspoken ways, its everyday practice. Even critical approaches in public administration remain rooted in anthropocentrism and speciesism and do not offer fundamental alternatives to mainstream approaches. The article outlines several of the l…
The Quantified Self and the Evolution of Neoliberal Self-Government
This article examines the “citizen side” of the performance and audit revolution through an exploration of individuals engaged in a “data-driven life.” Through an exploratory qualitative study of individuals’ video logs taken from the “Quantified Self” Web site, we examine how individuals are using information technology and Web 2.0 interfaces to generate data about themselves for themselves. We explore the questions, “Who are the subjects of gov…
Constitution as Executive Order
This article offers a new strategy for examining the legitimacy question in public administration and representative government. A genealogy of political discourses is proposed to suggest that political forms have historically relied on a constitutive exclusion. The U.S. Constitution and administrative state are conceived of as events in this genealogy but are unique in that both deny the ontologically constitutive effect of the exclusion. Admini…
The Courage to Listen
Theory and practice in contemporary governance place discourse, dialogue, and storytelling at the center of the field of public administration. These speaking practices involve the capacity both to speak and to listen to what is being said. Public administration emphasizes the former and neglects the latter. But if the breakdown in our "communicative infrastructure" is to be repaired, it is as important to consider how one attends to another's sp…
Governance and Networks at the Limits of Representation
Integrating literatures from public administration and social and political theory, this article provides a critical analysis of the political theory of democratic network governance. The article contends that critics and advocates alike have misrecognized the potentially transformative logic of networks by tacitly embedding their arguments and research in the taken-for-granted assumptions of representative government and its determination of pol…
Public Administration and “The Lives of Others”
Public administration is about how we work and live together; thus, it implies an ethic of collaboration. Despite this imperative, the ethical terrain in public administration appears divided into principle- and market-based ethics of judgment. Drawing from the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan, this article argues that both of these ethical systems unproductively rely on logically similar efforts to reconcile individual demand with the pres…
From Representations to Compositions
This article argues that even in its most critical moments public administrative thought has failed to move beyond the basic socio-political coordinates and divisions of modernity, elements of what the author calls the "political ontology of representation." Contemporary theories of governance, however, raise serious questions about the efficacy of this ontology and so open avenues for rethinking the nature of the field's inquiry and practices. T…
Is "Man" Still the Subject of Administration
Scientific advances are radically changing the relationship between government, knowledge, and citizens, thereby putting into question the content of the central subject/object of public administration—"humans." This article analyzes three interrelated problematizations in order to illuminate important aspects of this issue. The first, antihumanism, calls into question the plausibility of a universal, shared essence of humanity and "Man," Foucaul…
Dangerous Government”
There has been much debate about the change Barack Obama represents. This article considers this question by using Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality to explore the underlying governmental rationality of his administration’s policies and management practices. Obama’s governmentality is examined via the Open Government Directive, arguably the central initiative of the administration. The article concludes that this governmentality may be…
Frederick Thayer and the Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
A year after his death, this article provides the first critical analysis and overview of the work of Frederick Thayer. It argues that in the contemporary context of governance, Thayer's work is more relevant than ever, but that a set of problems—including the apparent simplicity of Thayer's assault on hierarchy, his frequently bombastic prose, and the foundational nature of his critique—impede the field's engagement with his work. The article co…
When we can’t handle the truth
The Occupy Movement (“Occupy”) was largely ignored by public administration scholars. In this paper we argue that letting Occupy pass by without substantive analysis is unfortunate because it represented an opportunity for public administration to learn and reflect on critically important issues. Occupy was an important moment of truth-telling in US politics and prefiguring of a different way of life, yet it revealed the field’s inability to hear…
Legitimacy and Public Administration
Legitimacy claims can only be made and processes of legitimation can only unfold in a specified context. This article uses Pierre Bourdieu's concept of the social field to name this context and to analyze the construction of the bureaucratic or public administrative field in the United States. Field is meant in a triple sense-public administration as a general, institutionalized field in the structure of government; public administration as a pro…
Performance Anxieties
The article demonstrates that public administration is presently constituted by an underlying discourse or social bond organizing knowledge, affect, and social relations in a specific way. This organization reinforces relations of domination and the sentiment of dissatisfaction, and ultimately frustrates the transformation of self-government and evacuates human subjectivity and desire. The demand for "relevance" is part of this discourse. This ar…
Enjoy Your Work! The Fantasy of the Neoliberal Workplace and Its Consequences for the Entrepreneurial Subject
This article critically examines the ways in which organizational performance and audit practices intersect with the dynamics of contemporary capitalism, managerialism, and individualism to shape the experience of the entrepreneurial, “postneurotic” subject at work. Drawing from Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, the article argues that the conditions for the contemporary subject are characterized by the declining efficacy of the Symbolic order, whi…
Beyond Methodological Taylorism? Pluralism and the Study of Public Administration
Narrative Forms and Political Actions
What's the Use in Being Practical
Drawing from sociological and psychoanalytic theories and personal experience, this essay reflects on the way in which the word "practical" is used in public administration. It suggests that the field has a narrow understanding of the term, one that obscures the complex ways in which ideas, theories, and techniques are perceived as practical. The word "interesting" better describes the reception of such theories and also hints at a different, per…
A Comment on Stephen Page’s “What’s New about the New Public Management”
The authors observe that the attacks on the new public management often show a lack of familiarity with its theoretical base, ignore that it is a recognized management tool, and imagine dramaturgy when none exists
Constitution as Executive Order
This article offers a new strategy for examining the legitimacy question in public administration and representative government. A genealogy of political discourses is proposed to suggest that political forms have historically relied on a constitutive exclusion. The U.S. Constitution and administrative state are conceived of as events in this genealogy but are unique in that both deny the ontologically constitutive effect of the exclusion. Admini…
Performance Anxieties
The article demonstrates that public administration is presently constituted by an underlying discourse or social bond organizing knowledge, affect, and social relations in a specific way. This organization reinforces relations of domination and the sentiment of dissatisfaction, and ultimately frustrates the transformation of self-government and evacuates human subjectivity and desire. The demand for "relevance" is part of this discourse. This ar…
Authority, Representation, and the Contradictions of Posttraditional Governing
The social, economic, and political transformations of the last 30 years have ushered in a “posttraditional” order in which the institutions and practices of the past are no longer authoritative guides for action and thought. Human experience increasingly is conceived as something to be constructed and decided on without reliance on the authority of tradition. This essay argues that these transformations pose grave challenges to the mechanisms of…
The Death of the Practitioner
This article examines how the term "The Practitioner" organizes knowledge and power in public administration, and how it constrains thought about the field's possibilities. The Practitioner has neither the specific qualities it posits as a representative of executive authority, nor the generic, universal quality as a neutral figure of science, stripped of all particular characteristics. The Practitioner is shown to reinforce a preoccupation with …
From Representations to Compositions
This article argues that even in its most critical moments public administrative thought has failed to move beyond the basic socio-political coordinates and divisions of modernity, elements of what the author calls the "political ontology of representation." Contemporary theories of governance, however, raise serious questions about the efficacy of this ontology and so open avenues for rethinking the nature of the field's inquiry and practices. T…
Frederick Thayer
A Comment on Stephen Page’s “What’s New about the New Public Management”
The authors observe that the attacks on the new public management often show a lack of familiarity with its theoretical base, ignore that it is a recognized management tool, and imagine dramaturgy when none exists
What's the Use in Being Practical
Drawing from sociological and psychoanalytic theories and personal experience, this essay reflects on the way in which the word "practical" is used in public administration. It suggests that the field has a narrow understanding of the term, one that obscures the complex ways in which ideas, theories, and techniques are perceived as practical. The word "interesting" better describes the reception of such theories and also hints at a different, per…
Symposium—Public Administration Theory in Times of Terror and Disaster
Introduction
(2008). Introduction: Public Administration at the Margins. Administrative Theory & Praxis: Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 393-397
Governance and Networks at the Limits of Representation
Integrating literatures from public administration and social and political theory, this article provides a critical analysis of the political theory of democratic network governance. The article contends that critics and advocates alike have misrecognized the potentially transformative logic of networks by tacitly embedding their arguments and research in the taken-for-granted assumptions of representative government and its determination of pol…
Frederick Thayer and the Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
A year after his death, this article provides the first critical analysis and overview of the work of Frederick Thayer. It argues that in the contemporary context of governance, Thayer's work is more relevant than ever, but that a set of problems—including the apparent simplicity of Thayer's assault on hierarchy, his frequently bombastic prose, and the foundational nature of his critique—impede the field's engagement with his work. The article co…
Public Administration and “The Lives of Others”
Public administration is about how we work and live together; thus, it implies an ethic of collaboration. Despite this imperative, the ethical terrain in public administration appears divided into principle- and market-based ethics of judgment. Drawing from the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan, this article argues that both of these ethical systems unproductively rely on logically similar efforts to reconcile individual demand with the pres…
Legitimacy and Public Administration
Legitimacy claims can only be made and processes of legitimation can only unfold in a specified context. This article uses Pierre Bourdieu's concept of the social field to name this context and to analyze the construction of the bureaucratic or public administrative field in the United States. Field is meant in a triple sense-public administration as a general, institutionalized field in the structure of government; public administration as a pro…
Crossing the Relational-Rubicon
Narrative Forms and Political Actions
Regarding the Animal
This article traces the anthropocentric orthodoxy of public administrative thought and scholarship to suggest how nonhuman animals give shape to the field's theoretical discourse and inform, in important and unspoken ways, its everyday practice. Even critical approaches in public administration remain rooted in anthropocentrism and speciesism and do not offer fundamental alternatives to mainstream approaches. The article outlines several of the l…
Beyond Methodological Taylorism? Pluralism and the Study of Public Administration
Is "Man" Still the Subject of Administration
Scientific advances are radically changing the relationship between government, knowledge, and citizens, thereby putting into question the content of the central subject/object of public administration—"humans." This article analyzes three interrelated problematizations in order to illuminate important aspects of this issue. The first, antihumanism, calls into question the plausibility of a universal, shared essence of humanity and "Man," Foucaul…
The Courage to Listen
Theory and practice in contemporary governance place discourse, dialogue, and storytelling at the center of the field of public administration. These speaking practices involve the capacity both to speak and to listen to what is being said. Public administration emphasizes the former and neglects the latter. But if the breakdown in our "communicative infrastructure" is to be repaired, it is as important to consider how one attends to another's sp…
What Do We Talk about When We Talk about "Research"? A Guide to Interpretive Research Talk for Natives and Nonnatives
Dangerous Government”
There has been much debate about the change Barack Obama represents. This article considers this question by using Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality to explore the underlying governmental rationality of his administration’s policies and management practices. Obama’s governmentality is examined via the Open Government Directive, arguably the central initiative of the administration. The article concludes that this governmentality may be…
Discipline and Participation
This study uses the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health data set to evaluate the long-term influence of school discipline and security on political and civic participation. We find that young adults with a history of school suspension are less likely than others to vote and volunteer in civic activities years later, suggesting that suspension negatively impacts the likelihood that youth engage in future political and civic activitie…
Governing Small‐Town America Today
This essay examines the governance of small towns in the United States. Small towns have received little attention in the public administration literature to date, yet 1 in 10 Americans still lives in one, representing roughly 75 percent of all municipalities in the United States and some 33 million people. Small towns are characterized as dense, multiplex networks that lend unique dynamics to local politics. However, they face significant social…
Introduction to “Contemplating Cops
This second of four essays continues the first essay’s central theme of openness, but also illustrates several key analytic strategies visible in David Farmer’s work. First, inspired in part by psy
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