H.T. Wilson

TITLE, ADDRESS AND CONTACT NUMBERS

Professor Emeritus, Social and Political Thought, York University
Professor Emeritus, Public Policy, Administration and Law, York University
Masters Program in Public Policy, Administration and Law (MPPAL)
Office: 235 McLaughlin College, York University
Address: 4700 Keele Street, North York, Ontario M3J 1P3
Phones: Work (416) 736-5128 messages only
Fax: (416) 736-5436; E-mail: htwilson@osgoode.yorku.ca
Wikipedia Entry under : H.T. Wilson

PROGRAMME AND FACULTY APPOINTMENTS

Faculty of the Schulich School of Business (OBIR and Policy Areas, 1967-1996)
Faculty of the Schulich School of Business (Public Admin. Program, 1967-1996)
Public Administration Program (Public Policy and Public Law Areas), 1996-2017)
Faculty of Law/Osgoode Hall (Public Law and Administrative Law), (1968-2012)
Faculty of Graduate Studies (Social and Political Thought), 1973-
Faculty of Arts, Department of Political Science (Program Evaluation, Policy Analysis and Systems of Justice courses), (1996-2012)
Faculty of Graduate Studies, MPPAL Program, (1996-2017)

POST SECONDARY EDUCATION AND DEGREES

A.B. Honors, Government, Tufts University, 1962
M.A., Political Science and Constitutional law, Rutgers University, 1964
Ph.D. Political Science and Constitutional Law, Rutgers University, 1968

TEACHING AND INSTRUCTIONAL POSITIONS

R.A., Constitutional Law, Rutgers University, 1962-63
T.A., American Politics, Rutgers University, 1963-65
Instructor, American Politics, Rutgers University, 1965-66
Lecturer, Public Administration), Rutgers University, 1966-67
Assistant. Professor, Admin Studies/Social Science, York University, 1967-69
Assistant Professor, Admin Studies and Law, York University, 1969-71
Associate Professor, Admin Studies and Law, York University, 1971-76
Professor, Admin Studies and Law, York University, 1976 – 1996
Professor, Social and Political Thought Program, York University, 1976-
Professor, Public Administration Program and Law, York University, 1996-2012
Professor, Program Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Arts, York University, 1997-2006
Professor, Political Science Graduate Program, York University, 1999-2012
Professor, Program Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2008-2012
Professor, Advanced Policy Analysis, York University, PPA Program, 2012-14
Professor, Policy Topics Research Workshop, York University, MPPAL Program, 2014-17
Professor, Leadership and Human Resources Management, York University, MPPAL Program, 2015-17

INTERNATIONAL TRAINING AND CONSULTANCIES

Faculty of International Relations, International University of Japan, 1988-1992
Departments of Sociology and Business, Umea University, Sweden, 1990-1995
Department of Communication, Lund University, Helsingborg, Sweden,Organizer and Contributor, Conference on the Sciences and Humanities, 2002-2011
Foundation for International Training, Anhui Civil Service, China, Toronto, 2005
York International, Conference Presentations, Nigerian Senior Judiciary, 2006

VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS

Departments of Sociology & Philosophy, University College, Cork, Ireland, 1973-1974 (Sabbatical)
Management Centre, University of Bradford, U.K., 1979-1980 (external examiner/sabbatical)
Department of Government, State University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, Fall 1987 (leave)
Faculty of International Relations, International University of Japan, Winter 1988 (sabbatical)
Faculty of International Relations, International University of Japan, Fall 1990 (leave)
Departments of Sociology and Business, Umea University, Umea, Sweden, Fall 1992 (leave)
Department of Government, State University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 1994-1995 (sabbatical)
Departments of Social Work, Sociology and Political Science, Umeä University, Umeä, Sweden, Fall 1995 (leave)

RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS

Critical Theory and Marxian Thought: Dialectics a Procedure not a Method
History of Social, Economic and Political Thought: Marx and the Ancients
Theory of Institutions and Legitimacy: Capitalism after Postmodernism
Public Policy and Administrative Processes: Limits of Institutional Transference
The University and Higher Education Policy: Cross Cultural/Multicultural Issues
Scientific and Technological Innovation: the Role of Commonsense Capacities
Time, Space and Place in a Cross Cultural/Multicultural Developmental Setting
Program Evaluation as a Cross Cultural/Multicultural Discipline and Activity
Adequate Evidence in Program Evaluation and the Social Sciences: Seeking Inclusiveness and Equity through the Research Act
Aboriginally Appropriate Alterations to the Criteria for Determining Tenure and Promotion in Canadian Universities
Expert witness: the theory of legitimate, rational expectations as the mutual and reciprocal basis of/for an implicit contract between an academic program or department and its full-time, fully funded Ph.D. graduate students

ADMINISTRATIVE AND RELATED POSITIONS

Secretary and Treasurer, York University Faculty Association, 1968-1973
Area Coordinator, Policy, Faculty of Administrative Studies, 1973, 1974-1978
Executive, Interdisciplinary Studies Program since its inception in 1975 to 1996
Founding Member/Executive, York/Toronto Occupational Ethics Group, 1977-86
Fellow, McLaughlin College, 1968-
Assistant Master and Senior Tutor, McLaughlin College, 1983-1987
Director, Social and Political Thought (SPT) Program, 1988-1990
Executive, SPT Program, 1988-1994, 1997-2011
Advisory, Admissions and Curriculum Committees, SPT Program, 1988-2013
Program Evaluation Course, Public Policy and Administration Certificate (PPA), Department of Political Science, 1996-2007
Board Member and Member of Executive, Centre for Practical Ethics, 1997-2006
Administrative Justice Working Group on Ontario Justice Reform, 2003-2014

COMMITTEE SERVICE AND RELATED RESPONSIBILITIES

Various committees of the Faculty of Administrative Studies including: Student Affairs, Admissions, Public Administration Program, Ph.D. Program, Research, Tenure and Promotion, Curriculum and Library Committees, 1967-2006
SCARSA, 1970-1973
Faculty of Graduate Studies Council, 1974-1979, 1980-1987
Senate Tenure and Promotions Committee, 1975-1978
Senate Ethics Committee on Research Using Human Subjects, 1980-1983
Faculty of Graduate Studies, Admissions Committee, 1988-1992
McLaughlin College: Advisory, Planning and Counseling Functions, 1968-2014
YUFA Equity Subcommittee Member, 2002-2004, 2009-2014
Teaching Visitor, Osgoode Hall Tenure and Promotion Committee, 2002-2006
Graduate Program, Osgoode Hall, 2002-2012
Graduate Program, Department of Political Science, 1988-2010
Admissions Committee, MPPAL Program, 2008-2017

PROFESSIONAL AND EDITORIAL AFFILIATIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), Executive, Conference Planning, 1986-2009
Society for the Advancement of Socio Economics, 1984-1993
European Group for Organization Studies, 1992-1999
Canadian Science and Technology Historical Association, 1976-1996
Australia and Pacific Association for Research on Organizations, 1977-1995
International Political Science Association, 1986-1992
Canadian Society for Practical Ethics, 1978-2009
Canadian Evaluation Society (CES), 2006-2012

Editorial Boards:

International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 1969-1977
Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 1971-2017
History of European Ideas (HEI), 1986-1995
The European Legacy (successor of HEI), 1995-2009
Australian Journal of Politics and History, 1994-2016
Additional refereeing and review responsibilities since 1970 for Canadian Public Administration, Canadian Journal of Political Science, four international and two Canadian publishers and the professional associations cited above
SSHRC Assessment Panel, ‘Technology, Society and Culture’, 1986-1991.

MASTERS AND PH.D COMMITTEE AND SUPERVISORY WORK

M.A. Interdisciplinary Studies	09 completed
M.A. SPT	12 completed
M.A. Sociology	07 completed
M.A. Law	04 completed
M.A. Political Science	13 completed
Ph.D. SPT	17 completed
Ph.D. Sociology	09 completed
Ph.D. Political Science	05 completed
Ph.D. Administrative Studies	04 completed
Ph.D. Law	07 completed

MASTERS AND PH.D. EXAMINING RESPONSIBILITIES(e.g. Internal-External/Outside or Dean's Representative since 1968)

M.A. Interdisciplinary Studies	16
M.A. SPT	13
M.A. Sociology	07
M.A. Psychology	04
Ph.D. SPT	32
Ph.D. Sociology	18
Ph.D. Philosophy	09
Ph.D. Administrative Studies	06
Ph.D. Law	06
Ph.D History	03
MRPs for MPPAL Program, 2009-2015	06

COURSES TAUGHT AT YORK AND ELSEWHERE

‘Organizational Theory and Behavior’, Faculty of Administrative Studies 1967-70
‘Politics, Economics and Society’, Division of Social Science, 1967-1969
‘The Organizational Society’, McLaughlin College Tutorial, 1969-1973
‘Discretion and the Administrative Process’, Faculties of Law and Administrative Studies, 1977-1988
‘Public Administration and the Law’, Faculties of Law and Administrative Studies, 1989-2006
‘Value Framework of Administrative Decision-Making’, Faculty of Administrative Studies, 1969-1973, 1974-1979
‘Environmental Framework of Management’, Faculty of Administrative Studies, 1970-1996
‘Technological Politics, Canada’, McLaughlin College Tutorial, 1974-1979 (year course)
‘Comparative Administrative Systems’, Faculty of Administrative Studies, 1975-1983
‘Government Organization and Intergovernmental Relations’, Faculty of Administrative Studies, 1976-1987
‘Management of Scientific and Technological Innovation’, Faculty of Administrative Studies, 1981, 1986, 1991
‘Public Policy Analysis’, Faculty of Administrative Studies, Summer, 1986.
‘Business, Occupational and Social Ethics’, Faculty of Administrative Studies, 1986, 1988, 1989
‘Critical Theory of Society’, Social and Political Thought Program", 1985-1986, 1989-1990
‘Ph.D. Seminar’, Policy Area, Faculty of Administrative Studies, 1991-1992
‘Critical Theory and the Social Sciences’, PhD Seminar, Depts. of Sociology, Political Science and Law, Umeä University, Sweden, Fall 1992.
‘Value Framework of Administrative Decision-Making’, PhD Seminar, Depts. of Management and Administration, Umeä University, Sweden, Fall 1992.
‘Political Ideals and Practical Realities’, PhD Seminar, Depts. of Social Work, Sociology and Political Science (based completely on my own writings) Umeä University, Sweden, Fall 1995
‘Public Policy Analysis’, Faculty of Administrative Studies, 1992, 1995
Various reading courses for Faculty of Administrative Studies: ‘Value Framework of Administrative Decision Making’; ‘Business, Occupational and Social Ethics’
Social and Political Thought Program: ‘Critical Theory of Society’
Interdisciplinary Studies Program: ‘Critical Theory of Society’; ‘Value Framework of Administrative Decision-Making’; ‘Management of Scientific and Technological Innovation’, for no compensation, 1969-1996.
Public Administration Program, Admin Studies and SSB: ‘Strategic Management in the Public Sector’ and ‘Canadian Public Law’ (1995-2006)
‘Program Evaluation and Policy Analysis’, Dept. of Political Science, 1997-2006
‘Program Evaluation and Policy Analysis’, PPAS 4300, PPA Program 2006-2011
‘Systems of Justice’, Department of Political Science, Winter 2003
‘Marx’s Critical/Dialectical Procedure’, SPT Program, Winter 2008, Winter 2011
‘Program Evaluation and Policy Analysis’, PPAL 6210 3, 2008-2011
‘Public Administration’, PPAS 3190 6, PPA Program, Winter 2012
‘Public Policy Analysis’, PPAS 4350, Winter 2013; Fall and Winter, 2013-2014
‘Policy Topics (PPAL 6230): Research Workshop in Public Policy’, 2014-2015, 2015-2017
‘Policy Topics (PPAL 6010): Research Workshop in Leadership and Human Resources, 2015-2017

GRANTS AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT

I do not normally apply for grants or other financial support to fund research, but restrict my requests from the University and funding agencies to conference travel, subsistence and sabbaticals. This is a matter of personal preference on my part, and is based on early negative experiences with issues bearing on academic freedom and financial dependency while completing my Ph.D. It is for this reason that I continue to be very concerned about the increasing dependence of contemporary social and political scholarship on external private and public sector funding, This concern came about as a consequence of the serious difficulties I and others encountered with political and partisan conflicts over funding while studying controversial topics in the united States during the early and mid-1960s. This has led me to be suspicious of all prizes, honours and awards, whether from public or private auspices, viewing them as a potential, and often a real threat to academic integrity. This attitude has also carried over into grants and emoluments, motivating me to avoid any such dependency as much as possible whether on sabbatical, attending conferences or conducting research, in Canada after 1967 no less than in the United States earlier.

SSHRC for travel, subsistence and conference participation, 1974-2006
Faculty of Administrative Studies travel and subsistence funds, 1968-2006
SSHRC Sabbatical leave grants 1973-1974, 1979-1980, 1987-1988, 1994-1995
Max Bell Program, travel and subsistence grants for conference participation, March, 1992
YUFA Professional Expense and Conference Grants, 1968-2006
YUFA Contract Teaching Conference and Travel Grants, 2006-2017

STATEMENT ON THE PRACTICAL ACTIVATION OF THE POSTULATE OF ADEQUACY

From the very beginning of my career as a social and political theorist in the mid-1960s, I have been concerned, and often preoccupied, by the limitations of second order constructs relative to the first order constructs that are the indisputable foundation of human rationality. Even before I became aware of the phenomenological terminology that describes the problem of rationality so well, the hope for a truly critical theory of society inspired my earliest writings on the gap between political science and political life and the conflict between professional and intellectual approaches in the social sciences. Indeed, my concerns about the university and higher education at the time were mainly focused on the ways that political and social sciences often fell short of political and social practice in anticipating events or making sense of them.

My first inkling that the social sciences might actually assist in the achievement of a more reasonable politics and society arose from reading Schutz in 1970, even though the broader problem already had been evident to me from my earliest readings of Weber. It was to their respective analyses of adequacy (Angemessenheit), and particularly to Schutz’s ‘postulate of adequacy’, that my attention was more specifically drawn. It stated unambiguously that social scientific concepts and terminology, far from needing to be comprehensible only to other social scientists, as well as other intellectual and professional persons, should be ‘reasonable and understandable’ for the actor him or herself. For me, this clearly implied the need for what I have since come to call the ‘practical activation’ of this postulate in pursuit of mutual understanding through equity, diversity and inclusivity.

This concept of practical activation effectively ‘generalizes’ to a parallel constituency of actor respondents who are the objects of social scientific research and evaluation the demands for ‘voice’ being heard from numerous oppressed peoples with an ever more resounding frequency today. This demand, in turn, is based on the thoroughly legitimate complaint that social scientific and evaluation researchers have themselves often to regularly claimed the right to speak for the oppressed claimants in question, that is, to speak in their voice, and that this, far from constituting only unwanted and unasked for charity, is the basis of an even more insidious form of oppression. Indeed, this, in my view, is precisely what is going on in the social and evaluative disciplines today, where we discover a herculean effort by academics and professionals to enfranchise the subject without his or her participation.

The colour, race, ethnicity, sex, gender, lifestyle, economic or social class, or geographic and other origins of social scientific and evaluative researchers is often pointed to in order to justify and defend such ‘enfranchisement without participation’ when in truth it is their dogged unwillingness to acknowledge the common sense rationality of actor respondents which is really at issue in this unremitting demand for the right to engage in this process of co-optation and second order substitution. However, no attempt at what is alleged to be empathic understanding can possibly function as a substitute for the actual participation and voice of actor respondents themselves. For me, this is conclusive evidence of the ends to which researchers will go to avoid taking seriously the demand for voice which only the effort to enfranchise the true subjects through practical activation can satisfy.

Without totally abjuring the possibility, or even the desirability, of large-scale social and political change, it is my conviction that it should not be encouraged to take place in the absence of heightened public, educational and other workplace discussion premised on the need for clarification of what people intend by their use of both first and second order constructs when they speak or write. This in turn will entail an openness to the mixing and intermingling of both, whether stated by those coming from an intellectual or professional background and orientation or those from other life settings, cultures and language groups. It will also require a willingness to accept the fact that this mixing and intermingling occurs within as well as between persons, indeed that both these situations constitute the essence of what we mean, or ought to mean, by enlightenment.

Elsewhere I have argued that the continued construction of second order edifices in the social sciences, in the absence of concerted parallel attempts at practical activation of the postulate of adequacy, can no longer be explained or justified by the earlier dependence of the social sciences on models of professionalism that were both traditional and authoritarian, even given the fact that they were ensconced in societies and political systems that were themselves non-democratic, or worse. In the present circumstances of serious worldwide political instability, coupled with the threat of incipient climate change and all its associated dangers, these earlier justifications for restraint and delay suddenly seem thoroughly out of proportion to the emerging situation, and even appear as rationalizations for continuing along our present path when common sense, as well as concerted thought and thinking on the matter, demand otherwise.

My response to the claim that this proposal for practical activation constitutes what is at best an attempt to stop a locomotive with a flyswatter is that those who hold such a belief must act on it by coming up with their own recommendations for practical activation in the interests of a constructive, conscious, purposeful and continuous mixing and intermingling of first and second order constructs to the end of a heightened public enlightenment aimed at human and planetary improvement. In the absence of such an effort, we are increasingly likely to face the rage and wrath of voiceless peoples left with no other alternative, as Herbert Marcuse anticipated with dread in the following conclusion to his essay ‘Repressive Tolerance’:

‘Law and order are always and everywhere the law and order which protect the established hierarchy; it is nonsensical to invoke the absolute authority of this law and order against those who suffer from it and struggle against it—not for personal advantages and revenge, but for their share of humanity. There is no other judge over them than the constituted authorities, the police and their own conscience. If they use violence, they do not start a new chain of violence but try to break an established one. Since they will be punished, they know the risk, and when they are willing to take it, no third person, and least of all the educator and intellectual, has the right to preach them abstention.’

Herbert Marcuse, ‘Repressive Tolerance’ in A Critique of Pure Tolerance (Boston: Beacon Press, 1965), 116-117.

PUBLICATIONS

(Does not include book reviews, speeches and addresses or advisory and consultative work)

Books: 10 published, 4 edited and 2 in progress
Papers in Edited Books and Monographs: 22
Papers in Refereed Journals: 38
Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings; 40
Papers in Non Refereed Conference Proceedings: 94
Other; 71 (addenda, notes, research memoranda, etc.)

BOOKS

The American Ideology (London: Routledge, 1977), reissued in 2023 in Hardbound, Paperback and Digital Form in the Routledge Revivals Series.

Tradition and Innovation (London: Routledge, 1984), reissued in 2023 in Hardbound, Paperback and Digital Form in the Routledge Revivals Series.

Political Management (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1985), reissued in 2017 as a reprint of the 1985 edition.

Sex and Gender (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 1989)

Retreat from Governance (Hull: Voyageur, 1989)

Marx's Critical Dialectical Procedure (London: Routledge, 1991), reissued in 2015 as Volume 19 of Routledge Library Editions: Marxism

No Ivory Tower (Richmond: Voyageur International, 1999)

Bureaucratic Representation (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2001)

Capitalism after Postmodernism (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2002)

The Vocation of Reason, edited with a foreword by Thomas Kemple (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2004)

Bureaucratic Competence: Toward a New Working Society (in progress)

The Time of Our Lives: Toward a New Postmodern Commonsense (in progress)

The American University and the World of Scholars (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers, 1969) (joint editorship)

Social Change, Innovation and Politics in East Asia (Hong Kong: Asian Research Institute, 1980) (joint editorship)

Encounters in Canada: Comparing Indigenous, Settler and Immigrant Perspectives (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018) (joint editorship)

Refugee Trap by Bharathi Mohan (amazon e book, 2016) (editor), 185 pp.

The Postulate of Adequacy: Causality, Meaning, Performativity. Special Issue of Human Studies 48(4) December 2025 (joint editor of 3).

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS OR MONOGRAPHS

“The Academy and its Clients: Conflicting Perspectives on the Contemporary University”, Studies on the University, Society and Government, edited by Donald C. Rowat and Rene Hurtubise (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1970), 88-127.

"Science, Critique and Criticism", On Critical Theory, edited by J. O'Neill (N.Y.: Seabury Press, 1976), 206-230.

"Innovation: the Practical Uses of Theory", Social Change, Innovation andPolitics in East Asia, edited by Y.S. Yim, H.T. Wilson and R. Wilson (Hong Kong: Asian Research Centre, 1980), 9-29.

"Functional Rationality and Sense of Function", International Yearbook of Organization Studies, 1980, edited by G. Salaman and D. Dunkerly (London: Routledge, 1981), 72-98.

"Values: On the Possibility of a Convergence between Economic and Non-Economic Decision-Making", Management under Differing Value Systems, edited by G. Dlugos and K. Weiermair (Berlin: DeGruyter, 1981), 37-71.

"Anti-Method as a Counter Structure in Social Research Practice", Beyond Method, edited by G. Morgan (Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1983), 247-259.

"Technocracy and Late Capitalist Society", The State, Class and theRecession, edited by S. Clegg, P. Boreham and G. Dow (London: Croom Helm, 1983), 152-238.

"Industrial Democracy Reconsidered", The Business Corporation in the Democratic Society, edited by W. Dorow (Berlin: DeGruyter, 1987), 13-22.

"Anti-Discrimination Legislation and its Impact on the Employment Relationship", Managerial Discretion and the Labor Market and Employment Relationship, edited by W. Dorow and K. Weiermair (Berlin: DeGruyter, 1988), 383-395.

"Essential Process of Modernity", International University of Japan Annual Review, 1987-88 (Tokyo: IUJ Press, 1988), 1-42.

"Industrial Strategy and Social Equality", Moral Expertise, edited by C.D. MacNiven (London: Routledge, 1989), 71-92.

"The Impact of 'Gender' on Critical Theory's Critique of Advanced Industrial Societies", Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Volume 12, edited by Ben Agger (London: JAI Press 1992), 125-136.

"The Quagmire of Industrial Policy" in Meeting the Global Challenge, edited by J. Dermer (Toronto: Captus Press, 1992, 1995), 151-159 and in The New World Economic Order, edited by T. Wesson (Toronto: Captus Press, 1998, 2001, 2005), 396-403 and supra.

“The Downside of Downsizing: Bureaucratic Representation in Capitalist Democracies”, The New Public Management: International Developments (Toronto: Captus Press, 1999), 55-80.

“La Theorie Critique aux Etats-Unis (1938-1978): Un Exemple d’Innovation Intellectuelle et sa Reception”, La Posterite de l’Ecole de Francfort, edited by Alain Blanc and Jean-Marie Vincent (Paris: Editions Syllepse, 2004), 235-252.

“Is Employment Equity Necessary? Yes”, Approaches to Public Administration: Core Issues and Emerging Responses, edited by Roberto Leone and F. L. K. Ohemeng (Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2011), 257-264.

“O’Neill’s Can(n)ons: An Interrogative Inquiry”, to appear in a forthcoming Festschrift for John O’Neill (London: Routledge, 2018), 32 pp.

“Popper’s Conception of Scientific Discovery and its Relation to the Community of Science”, The Impact of Critical Rationalism, edited by Rafael Sassower and Nathaniel Laor (Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2018), 273-287.

“Max Weber’s Idea of Social Science in an Age of Formal Rationalization”, The Routledge International Handbook on Max Weber, edited by Alan Sica (London: Routledge, 2022), 313-323.

PAPERS IN OR ACCEPTED FOR REFEREED JOURNALS

"Continentalism and Canadian Higher Education", Canadian Review of American Studies, 1(2) (Fall 1970), 89-99.

"The Dismal Science of Organization Reconsidered", Canadian Public Administration, 14(1) (Spring 1971), 82-99.

“Freud on Weber or Weber on Freud? Max Weber's Pessimism", International Journal of Contemporary Sociology, Volume 8 (April 1971), pp 183-188.

“Academic Bureaucracy”, Queens Quarterly 78(3) (Autumn 1971), 343-352.

"Discretion in the Analysis of Administrative Process", Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 10(3) (Autumn 1972), 117-139.

"Rationality and Decision in Administrative Science", Canadian Journal of Political Science, 6(3) (June 1973), 271-294.

"The Sociology of Apocalypse", The Human Context, 8 (Fall 1975), 274-294.

“The Problem of Domination”, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 5 (4) (December 1975), 496-500.

"Reading Max Weber: the Limits of Sociology", Sociology, 10(2) (May 1976), 297-315.

"Attitudes toward Science: Canadian and American Scientists", InternationalJournal of Comparative Sociology, 18(1) and (2) (March – June 1977), 154-175.

"The Poverty of Sociology", Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 8(1) (March 1978), 187-204.

"The Meaning and Significance of 'Empirical Method' for the Critical Theory of Society", Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory, 3(3) (Fall 1979), 57-68.

"The Paradox of Liberalism", Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 10(2) (June 1980), 215-226.

"Response to Ray, I", Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 11(1) (March 1981), 45-48.

"Science, Technology and Innovation", Methodology and Science, 15(3) (Fall 1982), 167-200.

"Response to Ray, II", Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 13(1) (March 1983), 63-65.

"Once Again: the Industrial Strategy Debate", Atkinson Review of Canadian Studies, 2(2) (Spring-Summer 1985), 33-40.

"Technology and/as/or the Future", Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 15(3) (September 1985), 349-358.

"Critical Theory's Critique of Social Science I", History of European Ideas, 7(2) (1986), 127-147.

"Critical Theory's Critique of Social Science II", History of European Ideas, 7(3) (1986), 287-302.

"Notes on the Achievement of Communicative Behavior and Related Difficulties", Dialectical Anthropology, 12(3) (1988), 285-305.

"Ordeals of Implementation", Asian Journal of Public Administration, 10(2) (December 1988), 225-237.

"Culture versus Civilization in the Theory and Practice of International Understanding", Maydan (Japanese Journal of Middle Eastern Studies) (September 1988), 10-13.

"The Counter Revolutionary Function of the Social Sciences in Advanced Industrial Societies", History of European Ideas, 11 (1989), 467-477.

"Space and Place: A Schema for Analyzing the Possibilities and Limits of the Contemporary Legal/Democratic State", Bulletin of the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, 6 (March 1992), 527-547.

"Nationalist Ideology and Political Philosophy: the Case of Max Weber", Historyof European Ideas, 16(3) (1992), 545-550.

"The European Mind on the Eve of Full Economic Integration", History of European Ideas, 17(1) (1993), 1-10.

“Space and Place as Convergent Sources of Political Identity,” History of European Ideas, 21(4) (1995), 499-504.

“The Missing Body in the New Physics,” The European Legacy, ROM for International Society for the Study of European Ideas (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1997).

“Institutional Complementarity and Canadian Identity”, Canadian Review of American Studies 27(3) (1997), 175-190.

“The Challenge of Participatory Democracy in an Emerging Supranational Europe,” The European Legacy 3(4) (1998), 86-95.

“Time, Space and Value”, Time and Society 8(1) (March 1999), 161-181.

“Rationality and Capitalism in Max Weber’s Analysis of Western Modernity,
Journal of Classical Sociology 3(2) (2002), 93-106.

“Use Value and Substantive Rationality in the Work of Marx and Weber”, Journal
of Classical Sociology 4(1) (March 2004), 5-30.

“Bureaucratic Competence as an Essential Factor in Cross Cultural/Multi-Cultural
Program Evaluations”, Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation 23(2) (2008), 93-115.

“Aboriginally Appropriate Alterations to the Criteria for Determining University Tenure and Promotion: An Extended Justification and Defence in the Light of Conspicuous Failures of Implementation”, Canadian Journal of Native Studies, 39(2) (2019), 53-69.

“Adequacy as a Goal in Social Research Practice: Classical Formulations and Contemporary Issues”, Human Studies, 44(3) (September 2021), 473-489.

"The Causality of Freedom: Max Weber and the Practical Activation of Schutz's Postulate of Adequacy". To appear in a Special Issue titled The Postulate of Adequacy: Causality, Meaning, Performativity, Human Studies 48(4) December 2025.

"Bureaucratic Representation in the Neo-Weberian State", in Max Weber Studies, edited by S. Whimster, Special Issue, Bureaucracy and Democracy in the Age of Trump' (ISSN: 1470-8078), April 2025.

PAPERS BEING REVISED OR PREPARED FOR PUBLICATION

"Science and Technology Teaching in a MBA/MPA Program: York-University’s Faculty of Administrative Studies/Schulich School of Business, 1970-1997”.

“Governing Space, Place and Time: Public Trust and Effective Policy Implementation”.

“Disorganized Capitalism? Comments on Postmodernism’s New Political Economy”.

“Problematizing the Fate of ‘Society’: Critical Theory versus Neo-liberalism”.

“Space, Place and Time: their Respective Roles in Studies Emphasizing Intra Human Differences and Similarities.”.

“Settler’s Assumptions about Space, Place and Time in the Laws Governing First Nations in North America and Creative Responses to these Laws”.

“Dynamizing Policy Implementation: the Postmodern Polis.”.

“Adequate Evidence in Program Evaluation”, paper to the Canadian Evaluation Society, October 4, 2010.

PAPERS IN REFERRED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

"Technological Politics: Some Canadian-American Dimensions", Proceedings of the Canadian Political Science Association (Montreal: McGill University, 1972).

"Organizational Analysis: the Problem of Rationality", Proceedings of the Canadian Sociological and Anthropology Association (Kingston: Queens University, 1973).

"Capitalism, Science and the Possibility of Political Economy", Proceedings of the World Congress of Sociology (Toronto: University of Toronto, 1974).

"Public Regulation: the Need for 'Responsible Discretion'", Proceedings of the Conference on the Regulatory Process in Canada (Montreal: Bronfman School of Management, McGill University, 1975).

"The Problem of Discretion in Three Languages", Proceedings of the International Congress of Legal Science (The Hague: Kongressgebeow, 1977).

"The Essential Marx", Proceedings of the Marxist Studies Conference (Buffalo: University of Buffalo, 1990).

"Marx's Critique of the Method of Political Economy”, Proceedings of the Conference on Rationality, Science and Society (Umea, Sweden: University of Umea, 1990).

"Privatization as a Retreat from Responsible Governance", Conference on International Privatization Strategies and Practices (St. Andrew, Scotland: St. Andrew University, 1991).

TECHNICAL REPORTS

The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico: Status, Politics and Prospects (Honors Thesis, Tufts University, 1962). Document of Dept. of Information and Caribbean Commission/Organization: Rio Piedras, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

The Regulation of Standard Radio Broadcasting, 1934-1952: Defining the Public Interest through Licensing Policies (Ph. D, Rutgers University, 1968) (Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1968). Document of the Federal Communications Commission: Washington, D.C.

‘The Academy and its Clients: Conflicting Perspectives on the Contemporary University’, contribution to the Commission on Relations between Universities and Governments, Volumes 1 and 2, Studies on The University, Society and Government, Volume 2 (edited by Donald C. Rowat and Rene Hurtubise) (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1970), 88-127.

OTHER

"The University, Society and Innovation", and 12 other papers and presentations to the McLaughlin College Public Policy Forum between 1974 and 1993.

"Technocracy", 600 word entry for Blackwell's Dictionary of Modern SocialThought (Oxford: Blackwell's, 1993, 1994, 2003).

"Organizational Theory", 600 word entry for Blackwell's Dictionary of Modern Social Thought (Oxford: Blackwell’s, 1993, 1994, 2003).

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