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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As the Blacksburg scholars admit ( Wamsley et al . , 1990 , preface ) , they have
come to embrace institutionalism and authority at least as a welcome alternative
to the libertarian anarchy of the resurgent right . We contend that this is overly ...
As the Blacksburg scholars admit ( Wamsley et al . , 1990 , preface ) , they have
come to embrace institutionalism and authority at least as a welcome alternative
to the libertarian anarchy of the resurgent right . We contend that this is overly ...
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Institutionalism What effect does the attempt to ground the Public Administration
in the Constitution have on the self - proclaimed neoinstitutionalism of the
Blacksburg manifesto ? We believe that it introduces a certain gravity , a weight ,
that ...
Institutionalism What effect does the attempt to ground the Public Administration
in the Constitution have on the self - proclaimed neoinstitutionalism of the
Blacksburg manifesto ? We believe that it introduces a certain gravity , a weight ,
that ...
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The first political science revolution away from institutionalism was the
unfortunate behavioral one , but that should not blind us to the inadequacies of
what was left behind ; good riddance . That the second ( postbehavioral )
revolution was ...
The first political science revolution away from institutionalism was the
unfortunate behavioral one , but that should not blind us to the inadequacies of
what was left behind ; good riddance . That the second ( postbehavioral )
revolution was ...
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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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