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 6
Postmodern thought has conceptualized theoretically some of the nagging
problems of public awareness that we believe have affected the health of the
body politic . Postmodernists have developed the best vocabulary we know of to
...
Postmodern thought has conceptualized theoretically some of the nagging
problems of public awareness that we believe have affected the health of the
body politic . Postmodernists have developed the best vocabulary we know of to
...
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Public agencies , private corporations , and bureaucratic organizations of all
stripes are thought to “ behave , ” to possess desires , and to have wants and
needs just like us people . The courts have gone so far as to give corporations
rights of ...
Public agencies , private corporations , and bureaucratic organizations of all
stripes are thought to “ behave , ” to possess desires , and to have wants and
needs just like us people . The courts have gone so far as to give corporations
rights of ...
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As with Platonic forms , a hidden but more profound reality is thought to be
behind the “ mere ” appearances gathered up by the denotative - connotative
continuum . A paradigmatic example comes from Feuerbach ' s ( 1881 ) critique
of ...
As with Platonic forms , a hidden but more profound reality is thought to be
behind the “ mere ” appearances gathered up by the denotative - connotative
continuum . A paradigmatic example comes from Feuerbach ' s ( 1881 ) critique
of ...
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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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