Brian Anse Patrick, an associate professor at the University of Toledo, has founded and is asking for submissions to an online, much-needed, interdisciplinary journal on the “vapid self-serving excess by administrative ‘elites’ that have adapted themselves to functioning at general social expense.”

Anyone interested in exposing administrative foibles might consider approaches such as the following:

  • Analyses of administrative rhetoric, themes, equivocations, techniques, either by methods of textual analysis or quantitative content analysis or by other means.
  • Econometric studies.
  • Comparative analyses.
  • Case studies.
  • Ethnomethodological or participant-observer studies.
  • Literature reviews.
  • Effects research.
  • Nomothetic or historical analyses.
  • Anthropological-based approaches

May the JAA thrive and grow.