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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Four arguments may be adduced : ( a ) rules beget more rules ; ( b ) the vagaries of language make it an inadequate instrument for precisely controlling bureaucratic behavior ; ( c ) in many cases the more rules there are , the less ...
Four arguments may be adduced : ( a ) rules beget more rules ; ( b ) the vagaries of language make it an inadequate instrument for precisely controlling bureaucratic behavior ; ( c ) in many cases the more rules there are , the less ...
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Active partici- pants sustain their reality via a denotative - connotative language game where there is a verbal struggle over both the denotation and the connotation of signs . That kind of intersubjective social communication is ...
Active partici- pants sustain their reality via a denotative - connotative language game where there is a verbal struggle over both the denotation and the connotation of signs . That kind of intersubjective social communication is ...
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reproduced through dialogue , the more language must generate and repro- duce those features from within itself . Media - created , postmodern , epiphe- nomenal language must simulate its context and ventriloquize its audience .
reproduced through dialogue , the more language must generate and repro- duce those features from within itself . Media - created , postmodern , epiphe- nomenal language must simulate its context and ventriloquize its audience .
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A New Approach to Democratic Governance | 3 |
Orthodoxy and Its Alternatives | 14 |
Postmodern Symbolic Politics | 42 |
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