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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... forces of nature , then the hard boundaries — between and among agencies , institutions , and bureau- cracy , and these distinguished from the citizenry - can be made permeable . Instead of looking at policy and administration processes ...
... forces of nature , then the hard boundaries — between and among agencies , institutions , and bureau- cracy , and these distinguished from the citizenry - can be made permeable . Instead of looking at policy and administration processes ...
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... forces that are out there . Fully acknowledging the situation and its field of forces might be inopportune because , although these forces can sometimes be anticipated , they may not be controllable . Field does not structure its ...
... forces that are out there . Fully acknowledging the situation and its field of forces might be inopportune because , although these forces can sometimes be anticipated , they may not be controllable . Field does not structure its ...
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... force outside of human groups , it is amenable to adjustment by human groups . The reality of our daily lives is historically contingent . Humans are not just wafted about by impersonal forces beyond their control . Institutions R us ...
... force outside of human groups , it is amenable to adjustment by human groups . The reality of our daily lives is historically contingent . Humans are not just wafted about by impersonal forces beyond their control . Institutions R us ...
Contents
A New Approach to Democratic Governance | 3 |
Orthodoxy and Its Alternatives | 14 |
Postmodern Symbolic Politics | 42 |
Copyright | |
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