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In this article, we address the question of how organizational practices are diffused within networks of practice. We do so by drawing on the results of an ethnographic study of the diffusion of a complex mental health care treatment modality — the Democratic Therapeutic Community — that involved the attempted spread of novel work practices within a professional network of psychiatrists and their associated multi-disciplinar y teams at two new clinical sites. We orientate the study within the networks of practice (NOP) literature on the diffusion of new work practices, considering in par ticular the issue of organizational power, which has been neglected hitherto. After presenting our ethnographic material, we draw attention to the role of clinical ideology, derived from founders and upheld by new, local clinical leaders in the appropriation process. By bringing in a concern for organizational power, we add to the existing literature through stressing the impor tance of ideological power, in supplying collective meaning, and the influential role of founders as creators and `institutionalizers' of underlying ideologies.

A GENERATION AGO AMERICAN THEORY WAS CHARACTERIZED AS SECOND-RATE. THE DEATH OF CRITICAL SECONDARY WORK AT THAT TIME IS CONSTRASTED WITH THE PRESENTDAY ABUNDANCE OF MATERIALS AND THE CREATIVE USES TO WHICH THEY MAY BE PUT. THE SECONDARY LITERATURE WHICH PROLIFICATED, ESPECIALLY DURING THE LAST DECADE, SUPPLEMENTS THE TEXTBOOK-ANTHOLOGY APPROACH, SUGGESTING FRAMEWORKS BY WHICH INSTRUCTORS MAY DEVELOP THE AMERICAN THEORY COURSE THESE INCLUDE: THE FOUNDING OF AMERICA, CIVIL RELIGION, THE LINCOLN LITERATURE, AND THE NEOCONSERVATIVE PHENOMENON. THIS PAPER RESULTED FROM THE AUTHOR'S PARTICIPATION IN THE APSA/NEH SPONSORED ETHICAL ISSUES SEMINAR, "CITIZENSHIP: ANCIENT AND MODERN," DIRECTED BY HARVEY C. MANSFIELD, JR. AND ROBERT SCIGLIANO. THE AUTHOR WOULD LIKE TO THANK DOUGLAS MUZZIO, OF THE BARUCH COLLEGE DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, FOR A NUMBER OF VALUABLE SUGGESTIONS.

This article describes the foundation of Hamilton's theory and practice of public administration. That foundation consists of four interconnected pillars: politics, organization design, ethics, and law. These pillars undergird the public administration today but are not recognized as the foundation of the field. We may be entering a period of reform in our conception of the field. If this is so, we will perhaps also reconsider the interpretation of the field's origins. Hamilton should figure prominently in any such revision for he, more than any other founder, attended to the theory and practice of public administration in the American Republic. We cannot help but practice the craft of public administration in his shadow.

The past generation has witnessed a resurgence of religion in global politics, but political science has been slow to catch up with it. The reason lies in the secularism embedded in the field's major theories, one that reflects actual secularism in world politics, beginning with the events surrounding the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 and growing steadily through the middle twentieth century. Today, a small but growing number of political scientists have begun to explore religion, doing so in ways that depart from secular assumptions and embrace religion's distinctiveness to greater and lesser degrees.

The past generation has witnessed a resurgence of religion in global politics, but political science has been slow to catch up with it. The reason lies in the secularism embedded in the field's major theories, one that reflects actual secularism in world politics, beginning with the events surrounding the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 & growing steadily through the middle twentieth century. Today, a small but growing number of political scientists have begun to explore religion, doing so in ways that depart from secular assumptions & embrace religion's distinctiveness to greater & lesser degrees. Adapted from the source document.