a more comprehensive understanding of the worrisome, not just the attractive, consequences of networked public action? Given the considerable variation in types of network settings,
particularly with regard to self-organized versus mandated networks,
simple nostrums will have little value; we could greatly benefi t from
better theory that can successfully combine the elements of both.
Such further developments would be of immense value to the practice
of public administration. Th e world of public administration, in short, has for some time been treating networks seriously, but the work is far from complete.