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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... readers , public adminis- trationists . Indeed , many of the concepts and much of the language we use at first will ... reading this book may require reader effort . We want to thank you in advance for that effort ; we hope it will be ...
... readers , public adminis- trationists . Indeed , many of the concepts and much of the language we use at first will ... reading this book may require reader effort . We want to thank you in advance for that effort ; we hope it will be ...
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... readers . These oppositions share what might be called the entropic principle ; differences between modern and postmodern may be variously expressed as : integration versus disintegration centralization versus decentralization ...
... readers . These oppositions share what might be called the entropic principle ; differences between modern and postmodern may be variously expressed as : integration versus disintegration centralization versus decentralization ...
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... reader effort . We need an altered and extended vocabulary in order to transcend what many would agree to be an ... readers in our literature of words and concepts that are being developed in other literatures . We want ultimately ...
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Contents
A New Approach to Democratic Governance | 3 |
Orthodoxy and Its Alternatives | 14 |
Postmodern Symbolic Politics | 42 |
Copyright | |
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