-Given the extent of these transformational claims, Deleon’s (1994) challenge
to carefully and critically examine network theory and practice and, especially,
its impact on public administration resonates today in the strongest terms
-This symposium contains three papers that critically examine the “light” and the
“dark” sides of network theory and its application to public administration,
governance, and political economy. These papers also take up the challenge
networks pose to intellectual effort,