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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Page 39
The difference is that for the here and now , the question is not so much what best
fulfills human potential ? ( a question to which the communitarians have the best
answer ) as what should we do next ? ( a question for which discourse theory ...
The difference is that for the here and now , the question is not so much what best
fulfills human potential ? ( a question to which the communitarians have the best
answer ) as what should we do next ? ( a question for which discourse theory ...
Page 79
question can be addressed credibly only by objective observers , as the
emphasis on neutral science would prescribe . Merely asking one question rather
than some other question betrays some measure of subjectivity . If
disinterestedness ...
question can be addressed credibly only by objective observers , as the
emphasis on neutral science would prescribe . Merely asking one question rather
than some other question betrays some measure of subjectivity . If
disinterestedness ...
Page 157
The permanent dispute in public policy discourse is not ultimately about what
happened ( explanation ) or what will happen ( prediction ) although these
questions matter ; the dispute is over what should be done next . Resolving that
question ...
The permanent dispute in public policy discourse is not ultimately about what
happened ( explanation ) or what will happen ( prediction ) although these
questions matter ; the dispute is over what should be done next . Resolving that
question ...
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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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