Administration and the Other

The American state, with its various instruments of policy-making and implementation, has found itself wrestling with various policy challenges related to matters of marginalization. Administration and the Other uses historical cases to examine the social construction of groups in American policy and proposes using the various lessons that are often unspoken in discussions of the history and evolution of the field to launch a discourse of inclusion and connectivity.

Administration and the Other examines the social construction of groups of people and resultant policy impacts in the discourse of the American Republic from before its founding to the present. The book suggests that from pre-revolutionary interactions between early colonialists and Native Americans to recent immigration debates, discourse on The Other has resulted in the development of policies that have led to further marginalization, community division, and harm to scores of innocents within the public sphere. Ultimately,Administration and the Other examines the construction of The Other from a sociological and historical framework to engage students and scholars of political and administrative processes in using the often unspoken history of the field, as part of a larger historical framework, to explore how policy has been shaped in relation to marginalized communities. By presenting elements of history that are frequently not entered into the administrative and political discourse, the book aims to frame a conversation that might lead to the integration of thoughts about the often marginalized Other into discussions of policy-making and policy-implementation processes.

Part 1 Preface
Part 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 Chapter 1. Theoretical Foundations
Part 4 Part I. The Early Republic
Chapter 5 Chapter 2.The Expert in an Era of American Enlightenment
Chapter 6 Chapter 3. Slavery
Chapter 7 Chapter 4. The Native American as the Other
Part 8 Part II. The Founding Era
Chapter 9 Chapter 5. Social Science and the Other
Chapter 10 Chapter 6. The African American Male as the Other
Chapter 11 Chapter 7. The Immigrant as the Other-Part I
Part 12 Part III. Transitional Concerns
Chapter 13 Chapter 8. Housing the Other
Chapter 14 Chapter 9. The War on Poverty
Chapter 15 Chapter 10. Educating the Other
Part 16 Part IV. The Other in an Era of Late Modernity
Chapter 17 Chapter 11. Welfare and the Other
Chapter 18 Chapter 12. Counting and Categorizing the Other
Chapter 19 Chapter 13. The Immigrant as the Other
Part 20 Conclusion