01373pab a2200145 454500008004000000100002800040245003600068260000900104300001500113362001200128520100200140650002601142700002601168773003301194180718b2012   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aKoppell, Jonathan G. S.  aIs there a spirit of governance  c2012  ap.S24-S33.  aNov-Dec  aIn his classic work, H. George Frederickson offers a robust call to value anew the spirit of public administration. This was offered not as an abstract treatise but as a reaction to the evolution of the practice of public administration that included institutions and approaches that stretched previous understanding of the field. Much about the constitution of the ﾓspirit of public administrationﾔ is left abstract by Frederickson. It is something of a placeholder for the norms, values, and principles that are threatened by the ascendance of ﾓgovernance.ﾔ In this article, the threat of an undermined spirit of administration in a governance era is considered with an attempt at greater specificity and concreteness than previous discussions. To the end of opening a more empirical exploration of the spiritﾖgovernance nexus, this article moves away from an either/or position and attempts to distill the highest risks of deterioration of spirit in the provision of public goods. - R  aPublic administration  aAuer, Jennifer Claire  aPublic Administration Review