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 point of it seems to be that institutions influence behavior and that this
influence is underemphasized by behavioralism , liberal individualism , and the
mathematicians of homo economicus . One would hope that these truths would
quickly ...
The point of it seems to be that institutions influence behavior and that this
influence is underemphasized by behavioralism , liberal individualism , and the
mathematicians of homo economicus . One would hope that these truths would
quickly ...
Page 91
Institutions of structuration theory , it follows , are not like institutions of the
Weberian idealtype : unalterable slots impervious to the human beings ... What
we want to stress here is the ever - present potential for institutional malleability .
Institutions of structuration theory , it follows , are not like institutions of the
Weberian idealtype : unalterable slots impervious to the human beings ... What
we want to stress here is the ever - present potential for institutional malleability .
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This is to say that two meanings of institution need to be kept in mind . Brass -
nameplate institutions contain within themselves many instances of robust
institutionalized recursive practices . But relatively stable over time
institutionalized ...
This is to say that two meanings of institution need to be kept in mind . Brass -
nameplate institutions contain within themselves many instances of robust
institutionalized recursive practices . But relatively stable over time
institutionalized ...
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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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