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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 84
Page 12
... public policy discourse , as we have articulated it , be found ? E. NASCENT FORMS OF DISCOURSE Case material that ... public policy literature as policy networks . The rules of authentic dis- course are perceptibly in evidence in many ...
... public policy discourse , as we have articulated it , be found ? E. NASCENT FORMS OF DISCOURSE Case material that ... public policy literature as policy networks . The rules of authentic dis- course are perceptibly in evidence in many ...
Page 130
... policy action . However , many - talk that is sustained over time may begin to develop structuration and coherence , the kind of authentic discourse we were hoping to find . We refer ... policy process . Public hearings 130 DISCOURSE THEORY.
... policy action . However , many - talk that is sustained over time may begin to develop structuration and coherence , the kind of authentic discourse we were hoping to find . We refer ... policy process . Public hearings 130 DISCOURSE THEORY.
Page 132
... public policy programs . Rather than having the many engage in the actual policy decision ( as one finds in strong democracy ) , it asks that policy analysts devise and actively practice ways to recruit and include citizens ' personal ...
... public policy programs . Rather than having the many engage in the actual policy decision ( as one finds in strong democracy ) , it asks that policy analysts devise and actively practice ways to recruit and include citizens ' personal ...
Contents
A New Approach to Democratic Governance | 3 |
Orthodoxy and Its Alternatives | 14 |
Postmodern Symbolic Politics | 42 |
Copyright | |
4 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
action adhocracies affirm agonistic alternative argument articulated atomistic attention authentic discourse behavior Blacksburg Blacksburg manifesto body-subject bureaucracy citizen panel claims communitarian concept constitutional constructivism context corporatist critique democracy democratic deterministic develop discourse theory dominant epiphenomenal ethics few-talk formation Frankfurt School Giddens governance groups Habermas Habermas's human hyperreality ideal incommensurability individual insincere institutionalism institutions interaction language games legislative legitimacy legitimizing lifeworld Logical positivism loop model many-talk meaning Merleau-Ponty metanarrative metaphor modern monologic nascent neotribalism norms organizations orthodoxy paradigm phenomenological philosophy policy discourse policy networks political postmodern conditions potential probabilism probabilistic problem problematic public administration public energy field public interest public policy question rational reality recursive practices reified representative democracy Rohr rules self-referential sense sincerity situation situation-regarding intentionality socially constructed some-talk speech speech acts standpoint Stivers strategically crafted structuration theory substantive contribution symbols tendency theoretical thought tion transcend warrants for discourse