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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... to honor the founding and the tradition coalesced by that act , we swear to
honor the argument , and in a sense we swear also to engage ourselves in the
argument , bounded by the high principles through which it was originally
conducted .
... to honor the founding and the tradition coalesced by that act , we swear to
honor the argument , and in a sense we swear also to engage ourselves in the
argument , bounded by the high principles through which it was originally
conducted .
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176 ) novelty by itself stands as a criterion for positive evaluation of the argument
. Even granting all such dispensations , in the end it is not so much that the
Constitution founds the Public Administration , as it is that the Public
Administration is ...
176 ) novelty by itself stands as a criterion for positive evaluation of the argument
. Even granting all such dispensations , in the end it is not so much that the
Constitution founds the Public Administration , as it is that the Public
Administration is ...
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It follows that not science but the clash of metaphors , similes , and analogies ,
strategically crafted arguments , and rhetorical gambits ... Indeed , invoking
scientific jargon is itself a rhetorical gambit and part of a strategically crafted
argument .
It follows that not science but the clash of metaphors , similes , and analogies ,
strategically crafted arguments , and rhetorical gambits ... Indeed , invoking
scientific jargon is itself a rhetorical gambit and part of a strategically crafted
argument .
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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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