1. Methodological Nationalism and Epistemological Diversity in (American) Public Administration
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Chou, Meng-Hsuan, Moloney, Kim, Osei, Philip, and Campbell, Yonique
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Global Policy ,Public Administration ,Transnational Administration ,Methodological Nationalism ,Epistemology - Abstract
This paper outlines an agenda for overcoming methodological nationalism in contemporary public administration studies. Our agenda reflects an acknowledgement of diverse lived administrative experiences around the world. Such experiences are the results of local administrative conditions and their interaction with transnational pressures and cross-border activities that transform the administrative landscape over time. However, the hegemonic intellectualism prevalent in American public administration studies has legitimized only a few experiences worthy of attention. Our proposed agenda starts with this baseline observation and advocates taking two bold steps to challenge this hegemonic intellectualism. First, it is essential to recognize the empirical and theoretical vacuum in public administration studies concerning how “beyond the state” activities configure and reconfigure national and local administration and policy. Second, taking a step towards intellectual pluralism, it is fruitful to recognize that connecting with those pushing research on transnational administration and global policy could benefit the discipline. We conclude by describing how the articles in this special issue connect with this agenda., This paper was to appear as the introduction to the special issue Beyond Administrative Sovereignty published in Administrative Theory & Praxis, volume 45, issue 2.
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- 2023
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