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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Reified categories are those that are unsuitably endowed ( by their human
creators ) with autonomous , nonhuman force and are thought to exist
independently of human social interaction . Bureaucracy is a case in point . We
often speak of ...
Reified categories are those that are unsuitably endowed ( by their human
creators ) with autonomous , nonhuman force and are thought to exist
independently of human social interaction . Bureaucracy is a case in point . We
often speak of ...
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Monologic Communication If one accepts the proposition that “ reality ” is a social
construction or structuration , it follows that intersubjective interaction and
communication generate this social construction of reality . An intersubjective
reality ...
Monologic Communication If one accepts the proposition that “ reality ” is a social
construction or structuration , it follows that intersubjective interaction and
communication generate this social construction of reality . An intersubjective
reality ...
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Such changes , in turn , can and usually do occur as the unintended
consequences of marginally adjusted recursive practices aggregated as a social
pattern . Governance , and the discourse way of actualizing it , may be regarded
as ...
Such changes , in turn , can and usually do occur as the unintended
consequences of marginally adjusted recursive practices aggregated as a social
pattern . Governance , and the discourse way of actualizing it , may be regarded
as ...
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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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