This work addresses one of the most central and timely subjects in Public Administration - how to make sense of critical theory and especially how to assess its implications for everyday practice.

Charles Frederick Abel, Arthur J. Sementelli,

Chapter 1 Précis; Chapter 2 Public Administration as Discipline and the Estrangement of Theory; Chapter 3 Ontology and Theory in Public Administration; Chapter 4 Critical Theory and Public Administration; Chapter 5 Evolutionary Critical Theory; Chapter 6 Evolutionary Critical Theory, Power, and Emancipation; Chapter 7 Evolutionary Critical Theory and the "Good Society"; Chapter 8 Evolutionary Critical Theory and Public Administration;