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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This term is used to indicate that signs and words have become increasingly
estranged from more authentic communities of discourse . Most of what passes
for public conversation is not that at all . It degenerated as communication lost the
...
This term is used to indicate that signs and words have become increasingly
estranged from more authentic communities of discourse . Most of what passes
for public conversation is not that at all . It degenerated as communication lost the
...
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Ferreting out all the subtleties of postmodern hyperreality is beyond our capacity ,
but the dynamic pattern by which signs become selfreferential seems clear
enough . The following moments each require explication : 1 . The spread of ...
Ferreting out all the subtleties of postmodern hyperreality is beyond our capacity ,
but the dynamic pattern by which signs become selfreferential seems clear
enough . The following moments each require explication : 1 . The spread of ...
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From an almost infinite number of potential events that could become news ,
virtually the same events will be reported in ... been thus vaulted to the realm of
media happening , he , she , or it is vested with newsworthiness and becomes
part of ...
From an almost infinite number of potential events that could become news ,
virtually the same events will be reported in ... been thus vaulted to the realm of
media happening , he , she , or it is vested with newsworthiness and becomes
part of ...
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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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