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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... authentic claims . An authentic discourse , we believe , does not suffer liars , fools , charlatans , the self - indulgent , or the ethical egoist . What to do next is too important a question to ... Discourse 12 E Nascent Forms of Discourse.
... authentic claims . An authentic discourse , we believe , does not suffer liars , fools , charlatans , the self - indulgent , or the ethical egoist . What to do next is too important a question to ... Discourse 12 E Nascent Forms of Discourse.
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... discourse model provides a set of criteria against which the authenticity of a policy conversation can be judged . Our hope is to encourage those forums that are intimations of authentic discourse and expose as inauthentic those that ...
... discourse model provides a set of criteria against which the authenticity of a policy conversation can be judged . Our hope is to encourage those forums that are intimations of authentic discourse and expose as inauthentic those that ...
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... authentic , democratic possibili- ties . The network formations we seek to avoid help shape what we aspire to : authentic discourse . B. A PROACTIVE ROLE FOR PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION The ... discourse Nascent Forms of Discourse 157.
... authentic , democratic possibili- ties . The network formations we seek to avoid help shape what we aspire to : authentic discourse . B. A PROACTIVE ROLE FOR PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION The ... discourse Nascent Forms of Discourse 157.
Contents
A New Approach to Democratic Governance | 3 |
Orthodoxy and Its Alternatives | 14 |
Postmodern Symbolic Politics | 42 |
Copyright | |
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