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Volume XVII
Number 2

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

A Look Back: History’s Lessons for Current Events


Before Fake News: How Federal Agencies
Wrestled with Responding to Rumors in World War II
.……………………………………....1 
Mordecai Lee


Analysis and Commentary: Use of Narrative in Public 
Administration
Renaming the Derogatory and Offensive Toponyms of the American Landscape:
The Role of Public Administration
...……………………………………………..........................22 
Derek R. Slagle

Unmasking the Carnivalesque and Donning the Guerrilla Suit: 
Outing the Gendered Public Organization
………………….…………………………………….37 
Serena Hoermann


Title IX Policy and the Construction of Survivor Narratives…………………………….54 
Hannah Liebreich

“Every day it eats at you:” Empathy in Municipal Cemetery Management....…67 
Staci M. Zavattaro


“No Damn Cat, and No Damn Cradle”:
Cat’s Cradle, Science, and the Pitfalls of Evidence-Based Drug Policy
………….....83 
Ryan J. Lofaro

Societal Dissolution and the 
Failure of Government in Dystopian Climate Fiction
………………...…………..………...99 
David A. Rochefort

Post-Truth, Mal-Trinity, and Government-in-Context………………...……………………116 
Ricardo Schmukler


Book Review


Time, Novelty, and Public Administration: Review of 
“Outlandish Perspectives on Public Administration”
by Charles T. Goodsell....128 
Reviewed by Arthur J. Sementelli

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