Koppell, Jonathan G. S. creator Auer, Jennifer Claire text xu| 2012 continuing ng p.S24-S33. In 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 Public administration Public Administration Review 180718