01226pab a2200133 454500008004000000100002200040245006000062260000900122300001400131362000800145520086800153650002601021773004501047180718b2009   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aCatlaw, Thomas J.  aGovernance and networks at the limits of representation  c2009  ap.478-98.  aSep  aIntegrating literatures from public administration and social and political theory, this article provides a critical analysis of the political theory of democratic network governance. The article contends that critics and advocates alike have misrecognized the potentially transformative logic of networks by tacitly embedding their arguments and research in the taken-for-granted assumptions of representative government and its determination of political community as "the people". This determination carries with it a number of assumptions and biases that are especially problematic in the contemporary world. The article argues that a new metaphor of and new style for imagining political community can be extracted from the network and that this can open a new avenue for reconsidering the nature of public administrative practice and pedagogy. - Reproduced.  aPublic administration  aAmerican Review of Public Administration