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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... literatures ranging from efficiency orientations of organization theory to the ambient health of the collective unconscious of Jungian psychology . We are also bypassing the literature on bureaucrat bashing to avoid casting ...
... literatures ranging from efficiency orientations of organization theory to the ambient health of the collective unconscious of Jungian psychology . We are also bypassing the literature on bureaucrat bashing to avoid casting ...
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... literature in which this book interposes itself . We press for it because it highlights aspects of advanced capitalist societies in which our discourse theory will have to win a place for itself . If the postmodern hypothesis is even ...
... literature in which this book interposes itself . We press for it because it highlights aspects of advanced capitalist societies in which our discourse theory will have to win a place for itself . If the postmodern hypothesis is even ...
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... literature on " iron triangles " exemplifies , are , however , rendered through the lenses of orthodoxy as thefts of ... literature of words and concepts that are being developed in other literatures . We want ultimately to be able to ...
... literature on " iron triangles " exemplifies , are , however , rendered through the lenses of orthodoxy as thefts of ... literature of words and concepts that are being developed in other literatures . We want ultimately to be able to ...
Contents
A New Approach to Democratic Governance | 3 |
Orthodoxy and Its Alternatives | 14 |
Postmodern Symbolic Politics | 42 |
Copyright | |
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