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 13
Discourse theory is an accurate model in the sense that it describes events that
can be observed and normative in the sense that it provides criteria for assessing
authentic discourse . When compared to the communitarian ideal , discourse ...
Discourse theory is an accurate model in the sense that it describes events that
can be observed and normative in the sense that it provides criteria for assessing
authentic discourse . When compared to the communitarian ideal , discourse ...
Page 109
What this chapter has tried to do is synthetic , not analytic in the sense of the
meticulous architecture of position building . To bury orthodoxy and to avoid the
pitfalls of the postmodern condition , public administration needs a new model to
...
What this chapter has tried to do is synthetic , not analytic in the sense of the
meticulous architecture of position building . To bury orthodoxy and to avoid the
pitfalls of the postmodern condition , public administration needs a new model to
...
Page 130
Further , they | are trying to make sense of the situation as a prelude to action —
there is an open question about what should be done next that energizes the
participants and their interactions , creating momentum and the possibility ...
Further , they | are trying to make sense of the situation as a prelude to action —
there is an open question about what should be done next that energizes the
participants and their interactions , creating momentum and the possibility ...
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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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