The SCNS of ASPA has its intellectual roots in the pioneering works of the late Sam Overman and the current SCNS member L. Doug Kiel in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Overman interpreted the implications of chaos/complexity theories for public administration and policy in a series of articles that appeared in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Public Administration Review, and others. Kiel published a series of articles in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration Review, and others, as well as publishing the first comprehensive book in this topical area: Managing Chaos and Complexity in Government (1994).

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