Postmodern Public Administration: Toward DiscourseCharles J Fox and Hugh T Miller challenge current thinking about public policy and administration in the light of the postmodern condition. In this book existing and accepted theories such as public management doctrines, constitutionalism and communitarianism are rejected in favour of constructing a discourse theory of public administration. The book also provides an invaluable, thorough and clear review of the doctrines and philosophies that have to date dominated the field. |
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... commission or omission ( unethical acts ) . Without hierarchical accountability , the people would be deprived of the procedures to express their sovereignty and hence their current definition of the greatest good for the greatest ...
... commission or omission ( unethical acts ) . Without hierarchical accountability , the people would be deprived of the procedures to express their sovereignty and hence their current definition of the greatest good for the greatest ...
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... reform had been on the agenda of executive - level reformers in and out of government since the Second Hoover Commission in the early fifties ( Dillman , 1984 , pp . 206-209 ; Orthodoxy and Alternatives 23 B Civil Service Reform.
... reform had been on the agenda of executive - level reformers in and out of government since the Second Hoover Commission in the early fifties ( Dillman , 1984 , pp . 206-209 ; Orthodoxy and Alternatives 23 B Civil Service Reform.
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... commissions to employ end - use forecasting methods so that specific components of electricity use can be assessed . Econometric methods , on the other hand , use probabilistic statistical methods to estimate future utility demand ...
... commissions to employ end - use forecasting methods so that specific components of electricity use can be assessed . Econometric methods , on the other hand , use probabilistic statistical methods to estimate future utility demand ...
Contents
A New Approach to Democratic Governance | 3 |
Orthodoxy and Its Alternatives | 14 |
Postmodern Symbolic Politics | 42 |
Copyright | |
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