Published Articles
Jack W. Meek (2014). Complexity Theory and Administrative Learning: Adaptive Practices in Complex Governance Systems. Emergence: Complexity and Organization. Vol. 16(1): 1-6.
http://emergentpublications.com/eco/ECO_other/Issue_16_1_1_ED.pdf
Jack W. Meek and Mary Lee Rhodes (2014). Decision Making in Complex Public Service Systems: Features and Dynamics. Emergence: Complexity and Organization. Vol. 16(1): 1-6.
Jack W. Meek and Marcia L. Godwin (2014) Iterative Learning: Programmatic Lessons from a Course-Embedded Approach to Program Mission Assessment Journal of Public Affairs Education. Vol. 20. Issue 3.
Jack W. Meek (2012) “Nuances of Metropolitan Cooperative Networks,” Public Administration Review, Vol. 72, Issue 4.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-6210.2012.02645.x/abstract
Jack W. Meek (2010) “Complexity Theory for Public Administration and Policy,” Emergence: Complexity and Organization, Vol. 12. Issue 1., pp. 1-4.
http://iscepublishing.com/ECO/issue_contents.aspx?Volume=12&Issue=1.
Jack W. Meek and Hong Kyu Lyu (2010) “Bridging Jurisdictions: Conservancies Working Across Borders as Adaptive Systems.” Emergence: Complexity and Organization, Vol. 12., Issue 1, pp. 39-51.
http://iscepublishing.com/ECO/issue_contents.aspx?Volume=12&Issue=1.
Chris Koliba and Jack W. Meek (2009) “Mixed Form Governance Structures: An Analytic Turn,” ESADE Newsletter of the Institute of Public Governance & Management Accessed October 20, 2009 http://www.esade.edu/public/modules.php?name=news&idnew=521&idissue=47
Jack W. Meek (2008) “Partnerships in Metropolitan Governance: An Adaptive Systems Perspective,” in Kurt Richardson (ed.) Complexity and Policy Analysis. Mansfield, MA: ISCR Publishing.
Jack W Meek (2008). “Adaptive Intermediate Structures And Local Sustainability Advances.” Public Administration Quarterly, 32(3), 415-432.
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/41288324?uid=3739256&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21104305559643
Jack W. Meek (2008), Abordagens da governança através da participação: implicações para o gerenciamento
Ambiental,” Instituto Brasileiro de Administração Municipal – IBAM, Ano 53 – N 266, April/May/June 2008.
http://www.ibam.org.br/publique/cgi/cgilua.exe/sys/start.htm
Jack W. Meek (2007), Participation Approaches to Governance: Implications for Environmental Management Enfoques participativos da governabilidade: Implicações no gerenciamento ambiental. Agenda Social: Revista do Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Politicas Sociais, UENF. Campos dos Aoytacazes, n.0, pp. 17-36,jan/abr/2007.
Accessed May 20, 2008 http://www.uenf.br/Uenf/Downloads/Agenda_Social_4449_1207257440.pdf
Jack W. Meek, Joe De Ladurantey and William H. Newell (2007). “Complex Systems, Governance and Policy Administration Consequences,” Emergence: Complexity and Organization. Issue Vol. 9, Nos. 1-2 2007 pp. 24-36.
Pradeep Chandra Kathi, Terry L. Cooper and Jack W. Meek (2007) “The Role of the University as a Mediating Institution in Neighborhood Council-City Agency Collaboration.” Journal of Public Administration Education. Vol. 13, No. 2, 2007, pp. 353-370.
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/40212736?uid=3739256&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21104305559643
Terry L. Cooper, Thomas Bryer and Jack W. Meek (2006). “Citizen-Centered Collaborative Public Management.” Public Administration Review (December).
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-6210.2006.00668.x/abstract
Jack W. Meek and Paul Hubler (2006) “Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) in Southern California: Implications for Local Governance” International Journal of Public Administration. Vol. 29 Nos. 1-3 pp. 31-52.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/.U5x-BRYXI6o
Jack W. Meek and William H. Newell (2005) “Complexity, Interdisciplinarity and Public Administration: Implications for Integrating Communities,” Public Administration Quarterly. Vol. 29. Issue 3. P. 321-349.
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/41288238?uid=3739256&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21104305559643
Paul Hubler and Jack W. Meek (2005) “Sub-regional Transportation Initiatives: Implications for Governance,” Journal of International Public Administration, Jeremy Plant, editor. Vol. 28, Nos. 13 &14, pp. 1081-1094.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/.U5x9qxYXI6o
Jack W. Meek (2001)“The Practice of Interdisciplinarity: Complex Conditions and the Potential of Interdisciplinary Theory,” Issues in Integrative Studies. Vo. 19, pp. 123-136.
http://www.units.miamioh.edu/aisorg/pubs/issues/19_Meek.pdf
Jack W. Meek (1998) “Policy Networks: Implications for Policy Development and Implementation.” Presentations: A Journal of Faculty Papers. Volume Eleven, University of La Verne, La Verne, California.
Jack W. Meek and Ellsworth Johnson (1998) “Curriculum, Pedagogy, Innovation: The Professional Doctorate in Public Administration,” Journal for Public Administration Education. January, Vol. 4, No. 1.
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/40215374?uid=3739256&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21104305559643
William Newell and Jack W. Meek (1997) “What Can Public Administration Learn from Complex Systems Theory,” Administrative Theory and Practice, Vol. 19, No. 3 1997, pp.318-330.
C. James Bishop and Jack W. Meek (1983) “KAL Flight 007: Why is the Reaction Different This Time?” Manchester College Bulletin, Vol. 76, No. 2 (November).
Jack W. Meek (1981) “Energy Cooperation and U.S. Policy in the 1980’s,” Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences, Proceedings, Vol. XVI.
Published Chapters in Books
Jack W. Meek and Kevin S. Marshall. Eds. (in press) “Administrative Strategies for Complex Governance Systems” in Jack W. Meek and Kevin S. Marshall. Eds. Administrative Strategies for Complex Governance Systems: Challenges of Making Public Administration and Complexity Theory Work – COMPACT II. Emergent Publication. ISBN: 978-1-xxxxxx-xx-x
Jack W. Meek and Mary Lee Rhodes (2014). Decision Making in Complex Public Service Systems: Features and Dynamics. In in Jack W. Meek and Kevin S. Marshall. Eds. Administrative Strategies for Complex Governance Systems: Challenges of Making Public Administration and Complexity Theory Work – COMPACT II. Emergent Publication. ISBN: 978-1-xxxxxx-xx-x
Lasse Gerrits and Jack W. Meek (2012) “Propositions for Complexity Science in Application to the Study and Practice of Public Administration,” in L.M. Gerrits, P. Marks & F.A.A. Boons (Eds.) Public Administration in Complexity. Litchfield Park, AZ: Emergent Publications.
http://emergentpublications.com/catalog_detail.aspx?Value=97
Jack Meek (2011) “Institutional fragmentation in metropolitan areas and infrastructure systems: governance as balancing complexity and linear tasks,” in Andre Tait and Kurt Richardson (eds.) Moving Forward with Complexity: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Complex Systems Thinking and Real World Applications. Lithfield Park, AZ.: Emergent Publications, 2011.
http://emergentpublications.com/(S(qxgarqfj4flbd0we2pft2ili))/catalog_detail.aspx?Value=83
H. George Frederickson and Jack W. Meek (2011) Bureaucratie sans Frontiéres: Legitimacy, Authority, Accountability in Geo-Governance Systems, in Edoardo Ongaro, Andrew Massey, Marc Holzer, Ellen Wayenberg (eds.) Policy, Performance and Management in governance and Intergovernmental Relations: Transatlantic Perspectives. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
http://www.e-elgar.com/bookentry_mainUS.lasso?id=13417
Christopher Koliba and Jack W. Meek and Asim Zia (2010)”Gordian Knot or Integrated Theory? Critical Conceptual Considerations for Governance Network Analysis,” in Taco Branden and Marc Holzer (ed) The Future of Governance. National Center for Public Performance (NCPP), pp. 277-300. ISBN: 978-0-942942-21-7
Jack W. Meek (2009) “Policy Networks’” in Phillip Anthony O’Hara (Ed.) International Encyclopedia of Public Policy—Governance in a Global Age, Volume 3 Political Economy, GPERU: Perth, pp. 513-518.
http://pohara.homestead.com/Encyclopedia/Volume-3.pdf
Jack W. Meek (2009) “Public Administration Theory and Perspectives’” in Phillip Anthony O’Hara (Ed.) International Encyclopedia of Public Policy—Governance in a Global Age, Volume 3 Political Economy, GPERU: Perth, pp. 586-601.
http://pohara.homestead.com/Encyclopedia/Volume-3.pdf
Jack W. Meek (2009) “Local Sustainability Advances with Metropolitan and Global Advantages,” in James Sheffield (ed.) Systemic Development: Local Solutions in a Global Environment, ISCE Publishing, ISBN13: 978-0-9817032-7-5, pp. 359-368
http://emergentpublications.com/catalog_detail.aspx?Value=53
Terry L. Cooper, Thomas A. Bryers, Jack W. Meek (2008) “Outcomes Achieved Through Citizen-Centered Collaborative Public Management,” in Lisa Blomgren Bingham and Rosemary O’Leary (eds.) Big Ideas on Collaborative Public Management (M.E. Sharpe Publisher).
http://www.mesharpe.com/mall/resultsa.asp?Title=Big+Ideas+in+Collaborative+Public+Management
Jack W. Meek (2008) “Partnerships in Metropolitan Governance: An Adaptive Systems Perspective,” in Kurt Richardson (ed.) Complexity and Policy Analysis. Mansfield, MA: ISCR Publishing.
http://emergentpublications.com/catalog_detail.aspx?Value=12
Jack W. Meek (2007) Local Sustainability Advances with Metropolitan and Global Advantages. Proceedings of the 13th ANZSYS 2007 Conference on “Systemic Development: Local Solutions in a Global Environment,” Auckland, New Zealand, December 2-5, 2007. ISBN 978-0-9791688-9-5
Wendy Gregory and Jack W. Meek (2007) “Social Sustainability and Community,” in Roger Atwater and John Merson (ed.) Sustaining Our Social and Natural Capital (Proceedings of the 12th ANZSYS Conference). ISCE Publishing. ISBN: 978-0-9791688-8-8.
http://emergentpublications.com/catalog_detail.aspx?Value=22
Paul Hubler and Jack W. Meek (2007) “Beyond the Waterfront: Ports as Leaders of Intermodal Trade,” in Jeremy F Plant, Van R Johnston, Cristina Ciocirlan (eds) Handbook Of Transportation Policy And Administration. CRC Press. http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781574445657
Jack W. Meek (2006) “Decision Making Within Metropolitan Areas” in Gotug Morkol (ed). Handbook of Decision Making in Public Administration. Rutledge, Taylor and Francis.
http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Decision-Making-Public-Administration/dp/1574445480
Jack W. Meek (2005) “Complementary Government: Policy Management and Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) in Southern California,” in Marc Holzer, Mengzhong Zhang, Keyong Gong (eds.) Frontiers of Public Administration: Proceedings of the Second Sino-U.S. International Conference—Public Administration in the Changing World. New York: The United Nations Public Administration Network; and Washington D.C.: The American Society for Public Administration.
http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/ASPA/UNPAN022840.pdf
William H. Newell and Jack W. Meek (2005) “Complex Systems and the Conjunctive State,” in Kurt A. Richardson, Wendy J. Gregory, and Gerald Midgley (Eds.). Systems Thinking and Complexity Science: Insights for Action. Proceedings of the 11th ANZSYS? Managing the Complex V Conference. Christchurch, New Zealand, 5th-7th December 2005. ISBN 0976681447.
Jack W. Meek (2005) “Emerging Forms of Metropolitan Governance.” In Wan Lefu, Chen Ruilian, Xiong Meijuan (eds.) Public Administration Research. University of Macau.
Jack W. Meek (2004) “Policy Networks,” Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy. Marcel Dekker. Updated version of 2003 article.
Jack W. Meek, Keith Schildt and Mathew Witt (2002) “Local Public Administration in the Metropolitan Context,” in H. George Frederickson and John Nalbandian (eds). The Future of Local Government Administration: The Hansell Symposium. Washington D.C.: The International City Management Association.
Jack W. Meek (2003) “Policy Networks,” Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy. Marcel Dekker.
William Newell and Jack W. Meek (2000) “What Can Public Administration Learn from Complex Systems Theory,” in Morcol, Goktug, & Dennard, Linda F. (Eds.). New Sciences for Public Administration and Policy: Connections and Reflections. Burke, VA: Chatelaine Press.
Published Reviews and Review Essays
Jack W. Meek (2009) “A Review of Economics, Evolution and the State: The Governance of Complexity (2006),” by Kurt Dopfer, Edward Elgar Publisher ISBN 9781845243812 in Emergence: Complexity and Organization. Issue Vol. 11, Nos. 1 2009 pp. 120-121.
Jack W. Meek (1998) “Limits of Rationality.” A review of Mary Zey. Rational Choice Theory and Organizational Theory: A Critique. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. Review for the Association for Integrative Studies Newsletter, October 1998.
Jack W. Meek (1998) “Responsible Government and Administration,” Public Productivity and Management Review. Vol. 21, No. 4, June 1998 pp. 473- 479.
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