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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We are ill - served if the model that ends up replacing orthodoxy neglects its role
as midwife to the emancipating potentials of the future for the sake of legitimizing
the past and the given . It is the pursuit of the public interest , not a historical ...
We are ill - served if the model that ends up replacing orthodoxy neglects its role
as midwife to the emancipating potentials of the future for the sake of legitimizing
the past and the given . It is the pursuit of the public interest , not a historical ...
Page 73
... it must nevertheless be constructive and positive ; we aspire to midwifery , not
funeral directing . Third , although reaching beyond the given , a normative theory
should still be based on possibilities that are already extant . That is , from given ...
... it must nevertheless be constructive and positive ; we aspire to midwifery , not
funeral directing . Third , although reaching beyond the given , a normative theory
should still be based on possibilities that are already extant . That is , from given ...
Page 91
If a given reality is socially constructed , that reality can , and inevitably will , be
socially reconstructed . The inevitable evolution of recursive practices usually
happens as the result of unintended consequence and the permeability of given
...
If a given reality is socially constructed , that reality can , and inevitably will , be
socially reconstructed . The inevitable evolution of recursive practices usually
happens as the result of unintended consequence and the permeability of given
...
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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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