Abstract
Organizations and inter-organizational arrangements are central to governing at multiple levels of aggregation, and scholars throughout the social sciences focus on them. Yet, as Kelman (2005) and Pfeffer (2006) have observed, the links between organization theories, on the one hand, and studies of policy processes, government and non-profit organizations and public management, on the other, have attenuated. Meanwhile, views of politics and power are incomplete, often emphasizing more micro levels of analysis, the inevitability of conflict, or techniques of strategic manipulation. I argue that one avenue for rebuilding bridges among public affairs, political science, and organization theory is to incorporate more encompassing understandings of politics and power. Such features likely both shape and are reflected in, for example, the elements of a
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