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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... interaction and communication generate this social construction of reality . An intersubjective reality would have a ... interact with functionaries learn to separate meaning from the message . And in bureau- cracy , because language is ...
... interaction and communication generate this social construction of reality . An intersubjective reality would have a ... interact with functionaries learn to separate meaning from the message . And in bureau- cracy , because language is ...
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... interaction which would rely on energy field as the unit of analysis , in the place of either atomistic individuals or anthropomorphized organizations , have been encouraged by Jahn and Dunne ( 1986 ) : Transposition to the ...
... interaction which would rely on energy field as the unit of analysis , in the place of either atomistic individuals or anthropomorphized organizations , have been encouraged by Jahn and Dunne ( 1986 ) : Transposition to the ...
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... interaction in a particular setting with others . The ideas that circulate among participants as they interact , along with ideas generated during antecedent processes , attract participation . The energy field concept directs attention ...
... interaction in a particular setting with others . The ideas that circulate among participants as they interact , along with ideas generated during antecedent processes , attract participation . The energy field concept directs attention ...
Contents
A New Approach to Democratic Governance | 3 |
Orthodoxy and Its Alternatives | 14 |
Postmodern Symbolic Politics | 42 |
Copyright | |
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