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 46
Words , signs , and symbols are increasingly unlikely to mean anything solid or
lasting . Postmodern theory gives interpretive depth to these asocial aspects of
language . We are rendered speechless by such tendencies as media - induced
...
Words , signs , and symbols are increasingly unlikely to mean anything solid or
lasting . Postmodern theory gives interpretive depth to these asocial aspects of
language . We are rendered speechless by such tendencies as media - induced
...
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A . MODERN AND POSTMODERN SYMBOLIC POLITICS To declare that elites
manipulate symbols does not require ... but the interaction between modernist
symbol manipulations and postmodern simulated politics is worth investigating .
A . MODERN AND POSTMODERN SYMBOLIC POLITICS To declare that elites
manipulate symbols does not require ... but the interaction between modernist
symbol manipulations and postmodern simulated politics is worth investigating .
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And very little in the name of concrete governance ( problem solving ) came from
these symbols ( Sundquist , 1973 ) . Reification ( taking symbols or names as if
they were real objects from nature ) has been part of the human condition since ...
And very little in the name of concrete governance ( problem solving ) came from
these symbols ( Sundquist , 1973 ) . Reification ( taking symbols or names as if
they were real objects from nature ) has been part of the human condition since ...
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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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