Columns on Complementarity in Theories of Public Administration

 Erik Devereux is a columnist for the online edition of the PA Times, a publication of the American Society for Public Administration.

Erik has authored a series of columns in the PA Times that applies the concept of complementarity in quantum physics to theories of public administration. Despite the arcane topic, the series has immediate application to the current efforts to remake the federal bureaucracy. The series began in November 2024 and concluded in April of 2025. 

Here are links to the six columns in the series:

• "Part 1 - Can There Be a Theory of Everything?" (11/8/2024)
• "Part 2 - Take Your Burdens to the State and Leave Them There" (11/22/2024)
• "Part 3 - Perusing the Periodic Table of Public Personnel" (1/24/2025)
• "Part 4 - When Pursuing the Public Interest Requires Avoiding the Public" (2/28/2025)
• "Part 5 - Revisiting Professor Lowi's Complaint" (3/28/2025)
• "Part 6 - Reconciling ASPA in the Public Interest" (4/25/2025)