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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... requirements of legitimacy and accountability . The first substitutes the Constitution for the electoral victors of the moment . Here loyalty to the sovereign people need not be compromised if it can be shown that constitutional ...
... requirements of legitimacy and accountability . The first substitutes the Constitution for the electoral victors of the moment . Here loyalty to the sovereign people need not be compromised if it can be shown that constitutional ...
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... requirement that words connote the same phenomena for everyone . Difference is likely , but disagreement is not rele- vant . At the lively moments in these conversations , gladiators from factions and various NIMBYS will sally forth ...
... requirement that words connote the same phenomena for everyone . Difference is likely , but disagreement is not rele- vant . At the lively moments in these conversations , gladiators from factions and various NIMBYS will sally forth ...
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... requirements of reified categories of thought are set aside , what remains as precategorical and prephilosophical is but a corporeal self and its field of activity . According to Merleau - Ponty , what will be discovered in the " world ...
... requirements of reified categories of thought are set aside , what remains as precategorical and prephilosophical is but a corporeal self and its field of activity . According to Merleau - Ponty , what will be discovered in the " world ...
Contents
A New Approach to Democratic Governance | 3 |
Orthodoxy and Its Alternatives | 14 |
Postmodern Symbolic Politics | 42 |
Copyright | |
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