AMERICAN GOVERNMENTALITY - FOUCAULT,MICHEL AND PUBLIC-ADMINISTRATION

The governing that now pervades the developed world is so omnipresent that it seems virtually natural Administration-specific forms of ratio nality, authority, and participation-was, nonetheless, a development. French philosopher Michel Foucault argued that this development could be understood as ''governmentality''-a new arrangement among sovereign ty, discipline, and government that made the art of governing both thi nkable and practicable. This article explores the utility of French ph ilosopher Michel Foucault's approach within the field of public admini stration. Reinvestigating the works of Woodrow Wilson, Frederick Winsl ow Taylor and Mary Parker Follett, we demonstrate that their approache s can be interpreted as establishing the basic contours of American go vernmentality.