Public administration and "the lives of othersg": Toward an ethics of collaboration

Administration and Society

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 290-312

  Catlaw, Thomas J ^a,b   Jordan, Gregory M ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Ethics; Film; Lacan; Ontology; Politics of the subject; Psychoanalysis; Public administration

Indexed keywords

EID: 65749087625     PISSN: 00953997     EISSN: 15523039     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0095399709332300     Document Type: Article

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