The Democracy Problem

What is it about?

This paper builds on my previous article titled "Public Administration and the Logic of Resolution." Using the same critical reading of Woodrow Wilson's 1887 article, I show how public administration was born as and should be viewed as a specific modern political project. The project is designed to address the perceived problem of popular sovereignty, and I introduce the idea through the notion of "mono-archy," the dehumanized form of singular rulership.

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Why is it important?

It is part of an under-investigated notion of public administration as not simply a field of inquiry or a theory-based model of governance but as a specific political project. To understand the nature of this political project is essential to understanding strategies of resistance, contestation, and opportunities for alternative political spaces.