PA Theory 2018

The 2018 Annual Meeting of the Public Administration Theory Network

Program Schedule

Conference Overview

Thursday, May 31 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Doctoral Pre-Conference Workshop 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Registration

Friday, June 1 8:15 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Conference Welcome and Breakfast Roundtables 9:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. 40th Anniversary Plenary Panel 11:15 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch (onsite): Speaker TBA 1:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Concurrent sessions 1A, 1B, and 1C 2:45 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. Concurrent sessions 2A, 2B, and 2C 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Concurrent sessions 3A, 3B, and 3C

Saturday, June 2 7:00 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. Breakfast Roundtables 8:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Concurrent sessions 4A, 4B, and 4C 10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Concurrent sessions 5A, 5B, and 5C 11:30 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. Lunch (onsite): Keynote Eric Weber 1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. Concurrent sessions 6A, 6B, and 6C 3:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. Concurrent sessions 7A, 7B, and 7C 5:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. R&R Hall of Fame Private Access, Reception and Dinner

Sunday, June 3 7:30 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. Breakfast and Business Meeting 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Concurrent sessions 8A, 8B, and 8C 10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Concurrent sessions 9A, 9B, and 9C 12:15 p.m. -1:15 p.m. ATP Editorial Board Meeting

Registration Table

Thursday 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Friday 7:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Saturday 7:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Friday, 1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

1A: Thinking Creatively about Public Administration in Times of Crisis

a. Perceiving the Distance within "The Wire". Jebediah Dickerson, C. Dammien Arthur

b. Cities, Art, and Revitalization: A Review of the Mayor's Institute on City Design (MICD) Projects Madinah F. Hamidullah

c. Who Deserves Protection? Criminal Activity Nuisance Laws and Administrative Evil Megan E. Hatch, Joseph Mead

d. Illuminating The Night Of: An Examination of Exemplars in Times of Turmoil Ann-Marie Rizzo, Anthony Campbell

1B: Crossing Borders: A Generative Force Challenging Western PA a. Municipalite de la Baies James: A Public Company Town Nancy Bouchard b. Rediscovering the Good Life: What Sumak Kawsay can Teach America about Human Well-being

Marco Castillo c. U.S. - Mexican Border Tensions, Agencies, and the Praxis of American Pragmatism

Kimberly Collins d. A Comparative Analysis of Use and Effectiveness of Performance Management

Obed Pasha 1C: Psychoanalytic and Schizoanalytic Organizational Analysis - New Lines and New Links

Convener Eric K. Austin Moderator: Gary Marshall

a. The Discourse of Diversity. Kiersten Iwai

b. Towards a Normative Theory of Public Management Eric K. Austin

c. Affect and Transversality: Felix Guattari’s Contribution to Public Administration Ryan Rouse, Kara Christiansen

d. Deleuze and the Power to Affect and Be Affected: Building a Framework on the Power of Material and Discursive Objects in Organizations Josh Shirk

Friday, 2:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.

2A: Nonprofits Facing Uncertainty: Responding with Creativity

a. The Role of Nonprofits in Fostering Democracy: The Case of Colombia Maria Veronica Elias, Jennifer Alexander

b. Iranian Nonprofit Organization: Uncertainty and Creative Reaction Negin Khanloo

c. Investigating Neoliberalism of the Nonprofit Sector: A Comparative Case Study of Two Nonprofit Organizations Billie Sandberg, Erin Elliott, Shauna Petchet

d. The Nonprofit Sector(s): The Defining Characteristics of the Field Eva Witesman, Curtis Child

2B: New Conceptions of Public Leadership and Management: A Challenge for Democracy

a. PA Theory and the Meaning of Life Jonathan Anderson

b. George Voinovich: A Generative Public Leader DeLysa Burnier

c. Professionalism, Public Service, and National Security Donald S. Travis

d. The People want me to Continue Ruling: Let us Change the Constitution Sombo Muzata-Chunda

2C: Balance Wheel or Deep State? Public Administration in the Trump Administration (Symposium-session roundtable)

a. Larry S. Luton b. Gary S. Marshall c. Stephanie Newbold d. Camilla Stivers

Friday, 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

3A: Dynamic Ways PA Can Be a Generative Force

a. Students as Grant Makers: Traditional or Grassroots Funders? Lindsey M. McDougle

b. Tensions in Practice: Mismatches of Funding and Service Implementation Alexis R. Kennedy, Vanessa M. Fenely

c. Neighborhood Effects of Social Capital: A Reconceptualization of Putnam and Bourdieu's Descriptions of Social Capital Jinhee Yun

d. The Shifting Nature of Trust: How the Sharing Economy is Disrupting Assurance Structures and Government's Role in Society Anthony Campbell

3B: Public Administration Theory: Uncertainty, Roots, Growth and Change

a. Dissociation and Disenchantment as Sources of Creativity.

Jennifer L. Eagan b. Realism in Public Administration

Travis Whetsell c. Person and Tradition: Responsible Relationship, Harmonious Particularity, and Intermediate

Possibility. Craig Wickstrom

d. Evolution of American Public Administration: From Bureaucracy to Networks of Association Hugh Miller

3C: Advancing Social Change in Uncertain Times

Moderator: Nicole Elias

a. Situating Non-binary Gender Identity Markers in Public Administration and Policy Nicole M. Rishel Elias

b. Sanctuary Policies, Trump, and Undocumented Migrants: Villains as Condensation Symbols and Driving Forces in Policy Narratives Aaron Smith-Walter

c. New Frameworks for Understanding Public Health Crises in the United States: The Case of Flint, Michigan Peter Stanley Federman

d. Private Money, Public Policy: Social Justice Foundations in the New Gilded Era Courtney Jensen

Saturday, 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.

4A: Creative Approaches to Problems in PA Methods

a. What I talk about when I Talk about Research: Research Diaries as Ways to Bring Practice to Theory and Theory to Practice. Melanie Chapman

b. An Ethnography of Rejection: Overcoming Silence on the Implementation Process in Public Administration. Melissa Gomez Hernandez

c. Encouraging Creativity in Applied Research Design Nandhini Rangarajan, Patricia Shields

d. The Hollow State: Considerations for a Research Agenda. Aaron Wachhaus

4B: Bridging Divides: The Uniting Role of Theory

a. Anti-rationalism and the Secret Life of Stories in American Public Administration. Arthur Sementelli

b. Knowledge-practice Networks: Complex Systems Theory at the Intersection of Learning and Organizing Regina G. Russell

c. Integrative Governance: From Theory to Practice Jeannine M. Love, Margaret Stout

d. Strategic Neutrality: Theory of Bureaucracy for the 21st Century Juniper Katz

4C: Democratic Challenges in and to Administration

Moderator: Roy L. Heidelberg

a. Letting it Grow: Sustaining Social Innovation in a Disobliging Governance Environment Koen Bartels

b. Civic Enterprise, Democratic Renewal and the Administrative State Hendrik Wagenaar

c. Collaborative Performance Management: Embracing the Complexity of Performance Measurement by Engaging Stakeholders Adam Eckerd, Lauren Bulka, Eta Davis, Dale Castellow

d. Demarchy and Administration Roy Heidelberg

Saturday, 10:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

5A: Equality and Inequality: Its Many Faces and Colors

a. Developing Inequality: Archival Research in Baltimore City's Downtown Re-development

Lindsey Bates b. How Colorblindness Penetrated Public Administration

Amanda Gatewood c. Moving from Equal Funding to Equitable Funding

Cimone Philpotts d. Introducing Colorism to Public Administration

Henry Smart 5B: Public Voices and Market Forces: Examining Contradictions

a. The Costs and Benefits of Pay for Success Financing

Alexis R. Kennedy b. Publicness in the Delivery of Urban Services: Who Should Pay for the Human Right to Sanitation?

Raul Pacheco-Vega c. Developmentalist State Versus Market Forces: The Fear of an African Giant

Henry Igiebor Oghoator, Akongbowa Bramwell Amadasun d. How to do "Public" Administration

Qianyou Zhang 5C: Symposium on Pragmatist Democracy

Moderator: Roy L. Heidelberg

a. Patricia Shields b. Christopher Ansell c. Hendrik Wagenaar d. Travis Whetsell

Saturday, 1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.

6A: Theory as Umbrella: Exploring Traditions, Inquiries, and People

a. Evaluating Digital Governance with Empowerment Matrix Nidhi Mali, J Ramon Gil-Garcia

b. Listing to Survive Jeroen Rodenberg, Pieter Wagenaar

c. The Comparative Generative Power of Organizational Units Eve Witesman

d. Taxonomy of Perceptions of Human Nature: Operationalizing a Deep Structure in Public Administration. John Wood

6B: Neoliberalism Today (and Tomorrow?): Trump, Populism, and Education

a. The Paradoxes of Trumponomics. Cal Clark, Evelyn Clark

b. STEM-ing (Schlepping?) All the way to Oblivion: The Pedestalling and Prominence of the Business of Science and Mathematics over Liberal and Fine Arts in Academe Terence Garrett

c. Populism and the Decoupling of Globalization: Contending Issues and Critical Theory to the Rescue for Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) Henry Igiebor Oghoator, Akongbowa Bramwell Amadasun

d. Public Administration after Liberalism, after Neo-Liberalism: The Active Afterlife Branco Ponomariov

6C: How Can We Dance While the Earth is Turning? Advocacy and Representation on Behalf of Others

Moderator: Jennifer A. Kagan Discussant: Samantha J. Larson

a. Do You Have to Know Someone? Personal Relationships and Bureaucratic LGBTQ Advocacy Jennifer Hooker

b. The Representational Role of Environmental Nonprofits: A Conceptual Framework Jennifer Kagan

c. The Mama’s and the Papa’s: Patriarchy, Maternal Thinking, and Settlement Men Nuri Heckler

Saturday, 3:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.

7A: Theory Informed Methodology: The Challenges of Uncertainty

a. Big Data and Implications for Public Administration

Akhlaque Haque b. Pragmatism and Public Administration Research Methodology.

Patricia Shields, Travis Whetsell c. My Love-hate Relationship with Academia: Searching for Knowledge versus Defending

Dogma Christa Slaton

d. Evidence Informed Policy: The Disenchantment of Public Administration Theory JS (Kobus) Wessels

7B: Remnants of Colonialism: Using PA Theory to Explore Administrative Culpability and the Experiences of the Subaltern.

Moderator: Jennifer Alexander

a. What can a Citizen Expect? A Post-Colonialist Analysis of Disaster Preparedness and Response in Louisiana and Puerto Rico Maren Trochmann, Ida Drury

b. Understanding Defiance in the Trump Era: An Ecofeminist Perspective Samantha J. Larson

c. The Lingering US-Salvadoran Colonial Relationship: Sources of Uncertainty and Potential for Creative Solutions Sean McCandless

d. Unlearning “Gendered” Organizations: A Framework for Unpacking Inequality Regimes Bishu Sebawit

7C: Conceptualizing Institutional Possibilities

a. Breaking the Accursed Share: Bataille, Rancière, and End(s) of Sovereignty

Reese Faust b. Public Administration and the Emerging Authoritarian Imagination

Robert C. Zinke c. Administering Class: Towards a Class Conscious Approach to Public Administration

Ben Curtis d. Spaces for Radical Reproduction: Waste Management and Local Interventions

Sarah Surak

Sunday, 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

8A: Frontiers in Theory, Justice, and Equity

a. Do you have to Know Someone? Personal Relationships and Bureaucratic LGBTQ Advocacy Jennifer Hooker

b. Doing Administration, Doing Gender: Gender Equity as a "Toolbox" for Public Administration Reform Karolina Kulicka

c. I Entered the Mouth of the Wolf Misty Brodiaea Springer

d. Beyond Title IX: Building a Theory of Justice for Survivor/Victims of Campus Sexual Assault Chelsea Ullman

8B: Personnel Praxis: International Theories to Refine Techniques

Moderator: Kwame Antwi-Boasiako a. Performance Appraisals: International Processes in Search of Theory

Richard J. Herzog, b. Narrative Policy Frameworks that Impact International Unions

Robert W. Velez c. Representative Bureaucracy and Public Sector Human Resource Management in Ghana:

The African Ubuntu Philosophical Perspective Justice Nyigmah Bawole

8C: Gazing into the Mirror: Refining the Public Administrator’s Identity Through Deeper Inquiry

Convener: Justin Piccorelli Moderator: William M. Denihan

a. Examining Everyday Intelligibility Among Nonprofit Executives Erik K. Austin

b. The Role of the Political in Becoming: A Look at Public Art Policies Jerry Scott, Justin T. Piccorelli

c. Applied Phenomenology: Neglected Path in Public Administration Theory? Maria Veronica Elias

d. Exile on Main Street: A Riff on Felt Sense, Listening, and the Impact of Technology on Administrative Practice Justin T. Piccorelli, Camilla Stivers

Concurrent Sessions 9: Sunday, 10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

9A: Learning from Art and Literature: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries

a. Implementation in the Age of Uncertainty: Lessons from Jazz. Neta Sher-Hadar

b. Truth, Power and Bureaucracy: The Relevance of Vaclav Havel for Public Administration Lars Karlsson

c. De eso se Trata, de ser o no ser Salvajes: Civilization, Barbarism and Good Society Esteban Leonardo Santis

d. What Modern Music can Teach us about the Democratic Experience Vanessa M. Fenley

9B: An Ethic of Relationships and Care: A Challenge for PA in Uncertain Times

a. Daring to Love in Public Administration. Maria Antonieta Reyes

b. It's the Journey and the Destination: Public Administration as Accompaniment Laura C. Hand, Patricia Patterson

c. We're One, but We're not the Same: Public Administration as an Aggregation of Diverse Relationship. Ryan P. Kelley

d. Understanding Emotional Labor at the Cultural Level Sharon Mastracci, Ian Adams

9C: Navigating the Age of Uncertainty: Tinkering with Hermeneutics, Pragmatism, and Democracy to Forge a Way Forward for Public Administration

Convener: Samantha Aritree Moderator: William M. Denihan

a. The Hermeneutics of Governance: A Case Study of the Ohio Children’s Trust Fund in Transition Nicholas C. Zingale, Alexandra Higl

b. From Traditionalism to Pragmatism and Phenomenology: The Evolving Role of Public Administrators in the New Era of Land and Water Conservation and Management Samantha Aritree, Nicholas Zingale

c. In Search of the Meridian: Some Reflections on Democracy, Populism, and Public Administration. Michael W. Spicer