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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The maladies of loop democracy also brought forth a communitarian alternative ,
which interrupts the loop by directly ... are the manifestations in public
administration of philosophical communitarianism , a view of politics which
possesses a ...
The maladies of loop democracy also brought forth a communitarian alternative ,
which interrupts the loop by directly ... are the manifestations in public
administration of philosophical communitarianism , a view of politics which
possesses a ...
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Communitarian / Citizen Alternative The other major contender to replace
orthodoxy is citizen activation or civism . Like the authors of this contribution ,
communitarians would not be primarily concerned about the legitimacy of given
institutions ...
Communitarian / Citizen Alternative The other major contender to replace
orthodoxy is citizen activation or civism . Like the authors of this contribution ,
communitarians would not be primarily concerned about the legitimacy of given
institutions ...
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Community as Sovereign To the extent that “ community ” replaces “ elected
officials ” in the communitarian / civism model , the loop model remains
essentially intact , and the bureaucracy can obey a new sovereign , just as
Woodrow Wilson ...
Community as Sovereign To the extent that “ community ” replaces “ elected
officials ” in the communitarian / civism model , the loop model remains
essentially intact , and the bureaucracy can obey a new sovereign , just as
Woodrow Wilson ...
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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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