Matthew T Witt
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 714406 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Matthew T Witt |
| PRENOMES | Matthew T |
| SOBRENOME | Witt |
| ASSINATURA | WITT M T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of La Verne |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 78 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The new leviathan
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From Greta to the Great Reset
This article examines the continuity of incidents linking Greta Thunberg to an ongoing stream of political shifts. It first takes us back to 1992 to her preteen predecessor, Severn Suzuki, and then forward to the COVID-19 period and its consequences. The connecting thread that runs from 1992 to the present is the use of rhetoric to inspire terror in the population. Terror is used to promote acceptance of censorship and authoritarian restrictions …
Never Post-Racial
Following the riots of the 1960s in major U.S. cities and the 1968 Kerner Commission Report, some public administration scholars initiated a limited focus on race themes in public administration. Today, mass incarceration serves more purposes than the kettling and destruction of young men of color or capital accumulation through the private prison complex and real property appropriation. Through linkages to immigration and terrorism, race is now …
Parallax Views on a Prophet, Properly Understood
Mary Parker Follett was a writer well ahead of her times, then and still; enigmatic in ways that may partially explain her itinerant popularity since the pinnacle of her success and acclaim in the
Sowing Seeds Instead of Sorrows
Kym Thorne’s “Reaping What You Sow: Empire, Collateral Damage, Blowback, and the (In)visible Consequences for Public Administration” (Thorne, 2013) assembles elements of Kym’s thought that he devel
Counternarratives as Critical Perspectives in Public Administration Curricula
This article argues for the inclusion of critical perspectives in public administration curricula to explore the historical and contemporary processes that contribute to disparity and injustice. The counternarratives examined in the article include social construction, inclusive feminism, critical urban planning, and democratic cultural pluralism. Critical perspectives or counternarratives are presented as challenges to hegemonic scripts that wil…
Conspiracy Theory Reconsidered
This article criticizes recent proposals for covert government operations against conspiracy-theory groups and networks. The article argues that fear of secret plots by political insiders is intrinsic to America’s civic culture, legal traditions, and political institutions. The appropriate government response to conspiracy theories is not to try to silence mass suspicions but instead to establish procedures for ensuring that suspicious events are…
Integrity and Public Administration
A Noteworthy Absence
This article examines the substantial lack of inquiry by public administration scholarship into how race shapes and has been shaped by U.S. public institutions, laws and public administration. The paper finds that pertinent matters of racism have evolved in the shadow of public administrative practices, and that the relevance, each for the other, warrants substantially more inquiry
Tragedy or Travesty
The Privatization of Public Policy
Exit, Voice, Loyalty Revisited
The ascendance of public choice theory in public administration scholarship and practice has contributed to America's increasing vulnerability to state crimes against democracy. Hirschman's framework of "exit, voice, and loyalty" helps to explain the implications of public choice theory. In practice, the theory's dominance has led to expanded opportunities for exit at the expense of opportunities and conditions necessary for popular control of go…
The Limits of Permissible Change in U.S. Politics and Policy
Barack Obama's election to the presidency offers scholars a rare opportunity to test their theories of modern representative democracy and US government. Different theories imply different trajectories for US politics and policy under Obama's leadership. In this article, the authors present one such theory, draw out its prognosis for the new administration, and contrast their predictions with those that follow from other, competing perspectives. …
Pretending Not to See or Hear, Refusing to Signify
This article opens with an inventory of how popular culture passion plays are homologous to the stampeding disenfranchisement everywhere of working classes and the emasculation of professional codes of ethics under siege by neoliberal initiatives and gambits.The article then examines a recent example of contemporary,"deconstructive" scholarly analysis and inventory of presidential "Orwellian doublespeak." The preoccupation among contemporary crit…
Sense Making Under "Holographic" Conditions
The ellipses of due diligence riddling the official account of the 9/11 incidents continue being ignored by scholars of policy and public administration. This article introduces intellectual context for examining the policy heuristic "State Crimes Against Democracy" (SCAD) (deHaven-Smith, 2006) and its usefulness for better understanding patterns of state criminality of which no extant policy analytic model gives adequate account.This article the…
Economic Delusions and Denial
Midnight in the Garden of PA
(2009). Midnight in the Garden of PA. Administrative Theory & Praxis: Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 106-111
Preventing State Crimes Against Democracy
This article analyzes U.S. vulnerabilities to state crimes against democracy (SCADs). SCADs are actions or inactions by government insiders intended to manipulate democratic processes and undermine popular sovereignty. Watergate and Iran–Contra are well‐known examples of SCADs involving top officials. SCADs in high office are difficult to detect and successfully prosecute because they are usually complex and compartmentalized; investigations are …
Abu Ghraib and the Normalization of Torture and Hate
The soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison showed little mercy when torturing Iraqi prisoners. Testimonies and interviews by soldiers and victims reveal that what the world saw at Abu Ghraib was preceded by actions that normalized torture in American culture and constructed a demonized Arab "other." Why did the military personnel and contractors do what they did? Explanations based on Milgram's shock experiments, the Stanford prison experiment, and the cu…
Sorrowful Empire, Distempered Union
This paper examines the usefulness of Theodor Adorno's (1966/2004) formulation of negative dialectics as prescriptive praxis under conditions where signifiers for humanity are made vaporous or otherwise elusive, as with current conditions of ersatz liberalism and diminished civil liberties. For exegetical purposes, this paper applies Adorno's praxis to one instance of resistance during the Nazi Third Reich that bears lingering, personal relevance…
Conjuring the Holographic State
No current policy paradigm, however interdisciplinary, provides an adequate and coherent account of post-9/11 security doctrine for “a war with no clear end or scope.” Like the hologram, the image of the terrorist constructed by PATRIOT and kindred legislation appears vivid while defying a definitive grasp, just as the holographic image dematerializes on the hand reaching to touch it. This article sketches etiology for a new policy analytic parad…
Notes from the Margin
This article examines, from among public administration and allied literature spanning over one hundred years, how "race" (both as fact and artifact) has shaped and similarly been shaped by scholarly output serving public administration. The paper finds that race and administrative inquiry and praxis in America have co-aligned, and entangled, since the inception of public administration. Their relevance, each for the other, is determined here to …
Towards a Praxis Less Traditional
Examining formidable challenges to Farmer's (2005) call for "authentic [administrative] hesitation" before the suffering of others, this paper explores how the path to the praxis Farmer advocates cannot lead us in a straight line, but ultimately must detour towards points that public administration has failed to confront. Divided into three sections, the paper is built as an allegory on the oblique trek it is argued here that public administratio…
America's Palimpsest
This article examines the history of the Capitol Mall from its inception in 1791 to recent legislation prohibiting further development along the Mall's primary axes. This movement to restrict further development of the Mall's massive open spaces derives from concerns that fail to fully articulate the iconographic significance these spaces represent. Drawing from the Mall's 200‐year history of master planning, this article examines the Mall's pali…
Forum
Counternarratives as Critical Perspectives in Public Administration Curricula
This article argues for the inclusion of critical perspectives in public administration curricula to explore the historical and contemporary processes that contribute to disparity and injustice. The counternarratives examined in the article include social construction, inclusive feminism, critical urban planning, and democratic cultural pluralism. Critical perspectives or counternarratives are presented as challenges to hegemonic scripts that wil…
Notes from the Margin
This article examines, from among public administration and allied literature spanning over one hundred years, how "race" (both as fact and artifact) has shaped and similarly been shaped by scholarly output serving public administration. The paper finds that race and administrative inquiry and praxis in America have co-aligned, and entangled, since the inception of public administration. Their relevance, each for the other, is determined here to …
Conjuring the Holographic State
No current policy paradigm, however interdisciplinary, provides an adequate and coherent account of post-9/11 security doctrine for “a war with no clear end or scope.” Like the hologram, the image of the terrorist constructed by PATRIOT and kindred legislation appears vivid while defying a definitive grasp, just as the holographic image dematerializes on the hand reaching to touch it. This article sketches etiology for a new policy analytic parad…
Preventing State Crimes Against Democracy
This article analyzes U.S. vulnerabilities to state crimes against democracy (SCADs). SCADs are actions or inactions by government insiders intended to manipulate democratic processes and undermine popular sovereignty. Watergate and Iran–Contra are well‐known examples of SCADs involving top officials. SCADs in high office are difficult to detect and successfully prosecute because they are usually complex and compartmentalized; investigations are …
A Noteworthy Absence
This article examines the substantial lack of inquiry by public administration scholarship into how race shapes and has been shaped by U.S. public institutions, laws and public administration. The paper finds that pertinent matters of racism have evolved in the shadow of public administrative practices, and that the relevance, each for the other, warrants substantially more inquiry
Exit, Voice, Loyalty Revisited
The ascendance of public choice theory in public administration scholarship and practice has contributed to America's increasing vulnerability to state crimes against democracy. Hirschman's framework of "exit, voice, and loyalty" helps to explain the implications of public choice theory. In practice, the theory's dominance has led to expanded opportunities for exit at the expense of opportunities and conditions necessary for popular control of go…
Towards a Praxis Less Traditional
Examining formidable challenges to Farmer's (2005) call for "authentic [administrative] hesitation" before the suffering of others, this paper explores how the path to the praxis Farmer advocates cannot lead us in a straight line, but ultimately must detour towards points that public administration has failed to confront. Divided into three sections, the paper is built as an allegory on the oblique trek it is argued here that public administratio…
Conspiracy Theory Reconsidered
This article criticizes recent proposals for covert government operations against conspiracy-theory groups and networks. The article argues that fear of secret plots by political insiders is intrinsic to America’s civic culture, legal traditions, and political institutions. The appropriate government response to conspiracy theories is not to try to silence mass suspicions but instead to establish procedures for ensuring that suspicious events are…
Integrity and Public Administration
Midnight in the Garden of PA
(2009). Midnight in the Garden of PA. Administrative Theory & Praxis: Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 106-111
Abu Ghraib and the Normalization of Torture and Hate
The soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison showed little mercy when torturing Iraqi prisoners. Testimonies and interviews by soldiers and victims reveal that what the world saw at Abu Ghraib was preceded by actions that normalized torture in American culture and constructed a demonized Arab "other." Why did the military personnel and contractors do what they did? Explanations based on Milgram's shock experiments, the Stanford prison experiment, and the cu…
Sorrowful Empire, Distempered Union
This paper examines the usefulness of Theodor Adorno's (1966/2004) formulation of negative dialectics as prescriptive praxis under conditions where signifiers for humanity are made vaporous or otherwise elusive, as with current conditions of ersatz liberalism and diminished civil liberties. For exegetical purposes, this paper applies Adorno's praxis to one instance of resistance during the Nazi Third Reich that bears lingering, personal relevance…
From Greta to the Great Reset
This article examines the continuity of incidents linking Greta Thunberg to an ongoing stream of political shifts. It first takes us back to 1992 to her preteen predecessor, Severn Suzuki, and then forward to the COVID-19 period and its consequences. The connecting thread that runs from 1992 to the present is the use of rhetoric to inspire terror in the population. Terror is used to promote acceptance of censorship and authoritarian restrictions …
Never Post-Racial
Following the riots of the 1960s in major U.S. cities and the 1968 Kerner Commission Report, some public administration scholars initiated a limited focus on race themes in public administration. Today, mass incarceration serves more purposes than the kettling and destruction of young men of color or capital accumulation through the private prison complex and real property appropriation. Through linkages to immigration and terrorism, race is now …
The Limits of Permissible Change in U.S. Politics and Policy
Barack Obama's election to the presidency offers scholars a rare opportunity to test their theories of modern representative democracy and US government. Different theories imply different trajectories for US politics and policy under Obama's leadership. In this article, the authors present one such theory, draw out its prognosis for the new administration, and contrast their predictions with those that follow from other, competing perspectives. …
Pretending Not to See or Hear, Refusing to Signify
This article opens with an inventory of how popular culture passion plays are homologous to the stampeding disenfranchisement everywhere of working classes and the emasculation of professional codes of ethics under siege by neoliberal initiatives and gambits.The article then examines a recent example of contemporary,"deconstructive" scholarly analysis and inventory of presidential "Orwellian doublespeak." The preoccupation among contemporary crit…
Sense Making Under "Holographic" Conditions
The ellipses of due diligence riddling the official account of the 9/11 incidents continue being ignored by scholars of policy and public administration. This article introduces intellectual context for examining the policy heuristic "State Crimes Against Democracy" (SCAD) (deHaven-Smith, 2006) and its usefulness for better understanding patterns of state criminality of which no extant policy analytic model gives adequate account.This article the…
The Origins and Evolution of Conflict in Portland’s Neighborhood Association System
Neighborhood associations represent a possible vehicle for broke ring private interests and public welfare within a diverse social context. In order to function at the level hoped for by normative political theory, neighborhood associations must be able to host vigorous dialogue within varied social interest group settings. Yet, because of the limited resources they typically command, and the disparate interests and agendas they are often confron…
Forum
America's Palimpsest
This article examines the history of the Capitol Mall from its inception in 1791 to recent legislation prohibiting further development along the Mall's primary axes. This movement to restrict further development of the Mall's massive open spaces derives from concerns that fail to fully articulate the iconographic significance these spaces represent. Drawing from the Mall's 200‐year history of master planning, this article examines the Mall's pali…
Notes from the Margin
This article examines, from among public administration and allied literature spanning over one hundred years, how "race" (both as fact and artifact) has shaped and similarly been shaped by scholarly output serving public administration. The paper finds that race and administrative inquiry and praxis in America have co-aligned, and entangled, since the inception of public administration. Their relevance, each for the other, is determined here to …
Towards a Praxis Less Traditional
Examining formidable challenges to Farmer's (2005) call for "authentic [administrative] hesitation" before the suffering of others, this paper explores how the path to the praxis Farmer advocates cannot lead us in a straight line, but ultimately must detour towards points that public administration has failed to confront. Divided into three sections, the paper is built as an allegory on the oblique trek it is argued here that public administratio…
Sorrowful Empire, Distempered Union
This paper examines the usefulness of Theodor Adorno's (1966/2004) formulation of negative dialectics as prescriptive praxis under conditions where signifiers for humanity are made vaporous or otherwise elusive, as with current conditions of ersatz liberalism and diminished civil liberties. For exegetical purposes, this paper applies Adorno's praxis to one instance of resistance during the Nazi Third Reich that bears lingering, personal relevance…
Conjuring the Holographic State
No current policy paradigm, however interdisciplinary, provides an adequate and coherent account of post-9/11 security doctrine for “a war with no clear end or scope.” Like the hologram, the image of the terrorist constructed by PATRIOT and kindred legislation appears vivid while defying a definitive grasp, just as the holographic image dematerializes on the hand reaching to touch it. This article sketches etiology for a new policy analytic parad…
Economic Delusions and Denial
Midnight in the Garden of PA
(2009). Midnight in the Garden of PA. Administrative Theory & Praxis: Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 106-111
Preventing State Crimes Against Democracy
This article analyzes U.S. vulnerabilities to state crimes against democracy (SCADs). SCADs are actions or inactions by government insiders intended to manipulate democratic processes and undermine popular sovereignty. Watergate and Iran–Contra are well‐known examples of SCADs involving top officials. SCADs in high office are difficult to detect and successfully prosecute because they are usually complex and compartmentalized; investigations are …
Abu Ghraib and the Normalization of Torture and Hate
The soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison showed little mercy when torturing Iraqi prisoners. Testimonies and interviews by soldiers and victims reveal that what the world saw at Abu Ghraib was preceded by actions that normalized torture in American culture and constructed a demonized Arab "other." Why did the military personnel and contractors do what they did? Explanations based on Milgram's shock experiments, the Stanford prison experiment, and the cu…
The Limits of Permissible Change in U.S. Politics and Policy
Barack Obama's election to the presidency offers scholars a rare opportunity to test their theories of modern representative democracy and US government. Different theories imply different trajectories for US politics and policy under Obama's leadership. In this article, the authors present one such theory, draw out its prognosis for the new administration, and contrast their predictions with those that follow from other, competing perspectives. …
Pretending Not to See or Hear, Refusing to Signify
This article opens with an inventory of how popular culture passion plays are homologous to the stampeding disenfranchisement everywhere of working classes and the emasculation of professional codes of ethics under siege by neoliberal initiatives and gambits.The article then examines a recent example of contemporary,"deconstructive" scholarly analysis and inventory of presidential "Orwellian doublespeak." The preoccupation among contemporary crit…
Sense Making Under "Holographic" Conditions
The ellipses of due diligence riddling the official account of the 9/11 incidents continue being ignored by scholars of policy and public administration. This article introduces intellectual context for examining the policy heuristic "State Crimes Against Democracy" (SCAD) (deHaven-Smith, 2006) and its usefulness for better understanding patterns of state criminality of which no extant policy analytic model gives adequate account.This article the…
A Noteworthy Absence
This article examines the substantial lack of inquiry by public administration scholarship into how race shapes and has been shaped by U.S. public institutions, laws and public administration. The paper finds that pertinent matters of racism have evolved in the shadow of public administrative practices, and that the relevance, each for the other, warrants substantially more inquiry
Tragedy or Travesty
The Privatization of Public Policy
Exit, Voice, Loyalty Revisited
The ascendance of public choice theory in public administration scholarship and practice has contributed to America's increasing vulnerability to state crimes against democracy. Hirschman's framework of "exit, voice, and loyalty" helps to explain the implications of public choice theory. In practice, the theory's dominance has led to expanded opportunities for exit at the expense of opportunities and conditions necessary for popular control of go…
Integrity and Public Administration
Conspiracy Theory Reconsidered
This article criticizes recent proposals for covert government operations against conspiracy-theory groups and networks. The article argues that fear of secret plots by political insiders is intrinsic to America’s civic culture, legal traditions, and political institutions. The appropriate government response to conspiracy theories is not to try to silence mass suspicions but instead to establish procedures for ensuring that suspicious events are…
Sowing Seeds Instead of Sorrows
Kym Thorne’s “Reaping What You Sow: Empire, Collateral Damage, Blowback, and the (In)visible Consequences for Public Administration” (Thorne, 2013) assembles elements of Kym’s thought that he devel
Counternarratives as Critical Perspectives in Public Administration Curricula
This article argues for the inclusion of critical perspectives in public administration curricula to explore the historical and contemporary processes that contribute to disparity and injustice. The counternarratives examined in the article include social construction, inclusive feminism, critical urban planning, and democratic cultural pluralism. Critical perspectives or counternarratives are presented as challenges to hegemonic scripts that wil…
Parallax Views on a Prophet, Properly Understood
Mary Parker Follett was a writer well ahead of her times, then and still; enigmatic in ways that may partially explain her itinerant popularity since the pinnacle of her success and acclaim in the
Never Post-Racial
Following the riots of the 1960s in major U.S. cities and the 1968 Kerner Commission Report, some public administration scholars initiated a limited focus on race themes in public administration. Today, mass incarceration serves more purposes than the kettling and destruction of young men of color or capital accumulation through the private prison complex and real property appropriation. Through linkages to immigration and terrorism, race is now …
From Greta to the Great Reset
This article examines the continuity of incidents linking Greta Thunberg to an ongoing stream of political shifts. It first takes us back to 1992 to her preteen predecessor, Severn Suzuki, and then forward to the COVID-19 period and its consequences. The connecting thread that runs from 1992 to the present is the use of rhetoric to inspire terror in the population. Terror is used to promote acceptance of censorship and authoritarian restrictions …
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