- Reengaging with Our Roots: The Critical Past (and Future) of Public Administration

In recent decades, public administration scholars have described the field’s history in differing ways, although all have insisted on focusing on the dominant voices in the field. For instance, when Henry undertook an intellectual history of the field, the irresistible notion of the paradigm contributed to the reinforcement of the more established conceptions of the discipline (Henry 1975; Cameron 1982). Canadian public administration

Introduction ....................................................................................................141 Unearthing Our Critical Roots and Renegotiating Our Academic Ethos ..............................................................................................143 Histories of the Field: The Mirror Stage ......................................................144 Lessons from the Fabians: A Different Narrative and Ethos for Public Administration .............................................................................148