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 68
Community , as reified integer , fits just as nicely as any of those . All these
legitimizing gambits ... The strategy of communitarian / civism advocates is not
necessarily to reify an artifact as sovereign , however . Our reading is that
community is ...
Community , as reified integer , fits just as nicely as any of those . All these
legitimizing gambits ... The strategy of communitarian / civism advocates is not
necessarily to reify an artifact as sovereign , however . Our reading is that
community is ...
Page 85
The human ability and tendency to reify ( “ thingify , " or make real ) can , over
time , create thought patterns so ... The term bureaucracy , as we will argue below
, is just such a reification and gets in the way of explication of lifeworld practices .
The human ability and tendency to reify ( “ thingify , " or make real ) can , over
time , create thought patterns so ... The term bureaucracy , as we will argue below
, is just such a reification and gets in the way of explication of lifeworld practices .
Page 103
How can we account for this ? The enigmatic quality of this discovery may be
attributed to an apparently innate tendency of the human mind known as
reification . . . . On the basis of everyday experience , physicists assumed that the
electron is ...
How can we account for this ? The enigmatic quality of this discovery may be
attributed to an apparently innate tendency of the human mind known as
reification . . . . On the basis of everyday experience , physicists assumed that the
electron is ...
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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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