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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Page 64
And , however distorted in favor of organized interests , policy actually did build
freeways , electrify the national outback , and construct the suburbs . With all its
faults and skews , it was “ real ” government . Orthodoxy may have needed reform
...
And , however distorted in favor of organized interests , policy actually did build
freeways , electrify the national outback , and construct the suburbs . With all its
faults and skews , it was “ real ” government . Orthodoxy may have needed reform
...
Page 99
Perceptions are easily channeled and ossified when participants , analysts , or
managers think that they convey something concrete , whereas the reference is
actually to a shared idea — a tacitly agreed - upon set of symbols and
expectations ...
Perceptions are easily channeled and ossified when participants , analysts , or
managers think that they convey something concrete , whereas the reference is
actually to a shared idea — a tacitly agreed - upon set of symbols and
expectations ...
Page 120
Human groups in the here and now actually do cancel warrants when they have
been abused . The question is not will there be rules of discourse ; in human
groups there are always norms for inclusion and exclusion . We shun , roll our
eyes ...
Human groups in the here and now actually do cancel warrants when they have
been abused . The question is not will there be rules of discourse ; in human
groups there are always norms for inclusion and exclusion . We shun , roll our
eyes ...
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Contents
A New Approach to Democratic Governance | 3 |
Orthodoxy and Its Alternatives | 14 |
Discourse Theory | 73 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Postmodern Public Administration: Toward Discourse |
| Authors | Charles J. Fox, Hugh T. Miller |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications, 1994 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 14 Oct 2008 |
| ISBN | 0803958021, 9780803958029 |
| Length | 192 pages |
| Subjects | › Political Science / General |
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