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Foreword - Chester A Newland Research Ideals and Realities MakingSense with Diversity - Jay D White and Guy B Adams The Context ofResearch, Theory and Knowledge Development in Public Administration PART ONE:THE NATURE OF RESEARCH IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Enthralled with Modernity -Guy B Adams The Historical Context of Knowledge and Theory Development inPublic Administration On the Growth of Knowledge in Public Administration -Jay D White A Science of Public Administration? - Gregory A Daneke AnExamination of the Debate Over Research in Public Administration - Richard CBox PART TWO: ASSESSMENTS OF PUBLISHED RESEARCH Research Methodology in thePublic Administration Review, 1975-84 - James L Perry and Kenneth L KraemerPublic Administration Research - Robert A Stallings and James M FerrisWork in PAR, 1940-84 Public Administration Research - David J Houston andSybil M Delevan An Assessment of Journal Publications PART THREE:ASSESSMENTS OF DOCTORAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION Dissertations and Publicationsin Public Administration - Jay D White Revisiting the Doctoral Dissertationin Public Administration - Robert E Cleary An Examination of theDissertations of 1990 Doctoral Programs in Public Administration - Robert AStallings An Outsider's Perspective PART FOUR: RESEARCH AND KNOWLEDGEDEVELOPMENT IN AN APPLIED PROFESSIONAL FIELD Do Physicists Use Case Studies?Thoughts on Public Administration Research - Mary Timney Bailey PolicyAnalysis in the Postpositivist Era - Marisa Kelly and Steven Maynard-MoodyEngaging Stakeholders in Evaluating the Economic Development District'sProgram Grout - Mary R Schmidt Alternative Kinds of Knowledge and Why TheyAre Ignored Stories Managers Tell - Ralph P Hummel Why They are as Validas Science