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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meaning captured in an environment in which no meanings are a priori true or ontologically fixed . Meaning is up for grabs . With meaning up for grabs , the temptation to offer specious attestation is strong . A bit of misrepresentation ...
meaning captured in an environment in which no meanings are a priori true or ontologically fixed . Meaning is up for grabs . With meaning up for grabs , the temptation to offer specious attestation is strong . A bit of misrepresentation ...
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What distinguishes the embodied self from pure mind is this physical locus : There is this body for which meanings develop . Preconscious bodily meaning is not some mystical , darkly Freudian , or occult meaning , but the simple not ...
What distinguishes the embodied self from pure mind is this physical locus : There is this body for which meanings develop . Preconscious bodily meaning is not some mystical , darkly Freudian , or occult meaning , but the simple not ...
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I. Policy as the Struggle for Meaning Capture Public policy is not the result of a purely rational discovery of objective Truth to which governments then respond with solutions infallibly deduced from that Truth .
I. Policy as the Struggle for Meaning Capture Public policy is not the result of a purely rational discovery of objective Truth to which governments then respond with solutions infallibly deduced from that Truth .
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A New Approach to Democratic Governance | 3 |
Orthodoxy and Its Alternatives | 14 |
Postmodern Symbolic Politics | 42 |
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