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100			_aPatrick, Susan Fitz
245			_aOpen-ended tangled hierarchies: Zen Koans and paradox in public administration
260			_c2005
300			_ap.957-71.
362			_aNov
520			_aKoans are mysterious stories used to teach Zen Buddhism for over a thousand years. The use of paradox in koans differs from the approach to paradox found throughout much writing about public administration. Koan practice and its central principle of nonduality suggest that apparently paradoxical objects are dynamically interconnected. This paper examines a nondualistic view of paradox through the analysis of koans and koan study. I use the term "open-ended tangled hierarchies" to describe one model of paradox based on nonduality. Public administration can gain from koans an enhanced focus on the interconnectedness of social systems rather than on boundaries. -Reproduced.
650			_aPublic administration
773			_aInternational Journal of Public Administration
909			_a67603
999			_c67603 _d67603