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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We judge it to be too conservative to serve as the template for governance in the
postmodern period . The maladies of loop democracy also brought forth a
communitarian alternative , which interrupts the loop by directly accessing
citizens .
We judge it to be too conservative to serve as the template for governance in the
postmodern period . The maladies of loop democracy also brought forth a
communitarian alternative , which interrupts the loop by directly accessing
citizens .
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The Growing Gap Between Words and Deeds Postmodern Symbolic Politics The
first two sections of the previous chapter may be seen as a rather straightforward
aggregation of the standard arguments used to debunk the myth of U . S ...
The Growing Gap Between Words and Deeds Postmodern Symbolic Politics The
first two sections of the previous chapter may be seen as a rather straightforward
aggregation of the standard arguments used to debunk the myth of U . S ...
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Postmodern Conditions : Orthodoxy , Constitutionalism , and Communitarianism
The postmodern citizenry is not so much informed as bombarded with fleeting
images designed mainly to manipulate consumers . Emblematic of the monologic
...
Postmodern Conditions : Orthodoxy , Constitutionalism , and Communitarianism
The postmodern citizenry is not so much informed as bombarded with fleeting
images designed mainly to manipulate consumers . Emblematic of the monologic
...
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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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