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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Page 59
At microlevels thick interpretations of “ reality ” fill the legitimacy vacuum . Queer
Nation , religious denominations , Branch Davidians , Black Nationalists , Aryan
Nation , Crips , and other groups step forth with self - referencing paradigms that
...
At microlevels thick interpretations of “ reality ” fill the legitimacy vacuum . Queer
Nation , religious denominations , Branch Davidians , Black Nationalists , Aryan
Nation , Crips , and other groups step forth with self - referencing paradigms that
...
Page 107
Energy fields invite interpretations and interpretations are themselves part of an
energy field . Instead of being true or false , interpretations will have only as much
currency as they can gather up from the curiosity - charged intentionalities ...
Energy fields invite interpretations and interpretations are themselves part of an
energy field . Instead of being true or false , interpretations will have only as much
currency as they can gather up from the curiosity - charged intentionalities ...
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102 - 103 ) Two additional interpretations of the developmentally at - risk children
case merit further consideration . ... This is essentially the public choice
interpretation , which assumes that bureaucrats , including those who work in the
helping ...
102 - 103 ) Two additional interpretations of the developmentally at - risk children
case merit further consideration . ... This is essentially the public choice
interpretation , which assumes that bureaucrats , including those who work in the
helping ...
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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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