Using Legitimacy as an Organizing Lens for Public Administration

• Date: 01 July 2014
• Published date: 01 July 2014
• Author: Staci M. Zavattaro
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/puar.12245

Book Reviews 535

As public administration scholars cope with the

f‌i eld’s interdisciplinary nature, there is a need

to better understand and integrate histori-

cal perspectives into present-day research and praxis

Margaret Stout, Logics of Legitimacy:  ree Traditions

of Public Administration Praxis (Boca Raton, FL:

CRC Press, 2013). 305 pp. $83.95 (cloth), ISBN:

9781466511613.

Using Legitimacy as an Organizing Lens for Public

Administration

Sonia M. Ospina and Rogan Kersh, Editors

Staci M. Zavattaro

Mississippi State University

Staci M. Zavattaro is assistant profes-

sor of public administration at Mississippi

State University. Her book Cities for Sale:

Municipalities as Public Relations

and Marketing Firms was released by

the State University of New York Press in

2013. Her work has appeared in Place

Branding and Public Diplomacy,

Journal of Place Management and

Development, Administrative Theory

and Praxis, and Administration &

Society. Palgrave Macmillan will publish

her book regarding cities through phases of

the image in 2014.

E-mail: smz35@msstate.edu