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Journal Article
Public Administration and Fiction
2011
Overview
Howard McCurdy once wrote that one of the advantages of using fiction in studying public administration is that fiction writers are able \"to portray the essential ambiguity of situations.\" This fact is important, in his view, because \"successful administration depends upon the skill of a manager in perceiving situations as essentially ambiguous.\" To illustrate this ambiguity, we examine the recent trilogy of Swedish films, based on Stieg Larsson's three best-selling novels of the same name, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Starmose & Oplev, 2009a), The Girl Who Played with Fire (Starmose, Mankell, & Alfredson, 2009b), and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Starmose, Mankell, & Alfredson, 2009c). The Larsson films presents, then, with four very different and seemingly contradictory views of the administrative state. The state is revealed as sometimes evil, sometimes professionally upholding constitutional values, often technically competent, and also often helpless.
