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About the Author
Margaret Stout is an assistant professor of public administration at West Virginia
University. Her research explores the role of public and nonprot practitioners in
achieving democratic social and economic justice with specic interests in admin-
istrative theory, public service leadership and ethics, and sustainable community
development. She has a particularly strong interest in the ontological underpin-
nings of these issues. Her published work can be found in Administration & Society,
Public Administration Review, Administrative eory & Praxis, International Journal
of Organization eory and Behavior, Journal of Public ...