220 ◾ Logics of Legitimacy
to right, from Constitutional to Discretionary to Collaborative ideals, remember-
ing that this is not a fully chronological or linear path, but rather is iterative with
varying emphases in dierent historical periods.
Taken together, there may be two interwoven developmental paths: e rst is the
dialectical relationship whereby theoretical development is spurred on by alternat-
ing and iterative foci on technical, then normative views in the pattern of the Taoist
yin/ yang symmetrical rotation; the second is the larger dialectical pattern in which
theory is moving from Bureaucratic to Entrepreneurial to Collaborative ideas in an
historical pattern. Each is discussed in turn.
Dialectic Within Traditions
Within the ...