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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... person is a social / political animal , the full development of which can only occur in a well - ordered community ( polis ) . This more robust self comes stamped by its past community experience and does not have the absolute free will ...
... person is a social / political animal , the full development of which can only occur in a well - ordered community ( polis ) . This more robust self comes stamped by its past community experience and does not have the absolute free will ...
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... person in the polls in a later year . A plausible hypothesis is that such social amnesia is the result of the thin viscosity of media - infused postmodern hyperreality . Those who live by the image . ... We will consider again the ...
... person in the polls in a later year . A plausible hypothesis is that such social amnesia is the result of the thin viscosity of media - infused postmodern hyperreality . Those who live by the image . ... We will consider again the ...
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... persons per- ceive , may be regarded as the nexus of three things : intentionality ; something outside a person toward which that intentionality sparks ( a kind of grounding for it ) ; and a name that already entails a both judgment ...
... persons per- ceive , may be regarded as the nexus of three things : intentionality ; something outside a person toward which that intentionality sparks ( a kind of grounding for it ) ; and a name that already entails a both judgment ...
Contents
A New Approach to Democratic Governance | 3 |
Orthodoxy and Its Alternatives | 14 |
Postmodern Symbolic Politics | 42 |
Copyright | |
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