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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... offer specious attestation is strong . A bit of misrepresentation just might get us what we want . But , like a virus , speciousness is infectious . Why bother attending a discourse where claims are as likely to be counterfeit as ...
... offer specious attestation is strong . A bit of misrepresentation just might get us what we want . But , like a virus , speciousness is infectious . Why bother attending a discourse where claims are as likely to be counterfeit as ...
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... offer alternative packages of wants or needs that can be satisfied by particular methods . 3. People choose a ... offering alternative packages . Although less purely democratic than direct democracy , in which the people would both make ...
... offer alternative packages of wants or needs that can be satisfied by particular methods . 3. People choose a ... offering alternative packages . Although less purely democratic than direct democracy , in which the people would both make ...
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... offered demurs from it based on our constructivist underpinnings and Arendtian agonistic public sphere performances , we are now positioned to offer warrants for discourse . III . Revocable Warrants for Discourse Habermas's ...
... offered demurs from it based on our constructivist underpinnings and Arendtian agonistic public sphere performances , we are now positioned to offer warrants for discourse . III . Revocable Warrants for Discourse Habermas's ...
Contents
A New Approach to Democratic Governance | 3 |
Orthodoxy and Its Alternatives | 14 |
Postmodern Symbolic Politics | 42 |
Copyright | |
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