Postmodern public administration : toward discourse

Author(s)

• Fox, Charles J.
• Miller, Hugh T. (Hugh Theodore)

Bibliographic Information

Postmodern public administration : toward discourse

Charles J. Fox, Hugh T. Miller

Sage Publications, c1995

• : cloth
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Charles 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.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: CRITIQUE A New Approach to Democratic Governance Orthodoxy and Its Alternatives The Growing Gap between Words and Deeds Postmodern Symbolic Politics PART TWO: DISCOURSE THEORY Theoretical Underpinnings of Discourse Theory Phenomenology, Constructivism, Structuration Theory and Energy Fields Warrants for Discourse Nascent Forms of Discourse

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Details

• NCID: BA24101028
• ISBN:
  • 0803958013
  • 0803958021
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif.
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 175 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : JF1411
  • DC20 : 350
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Public administration
  • LCSH : Postmodernism -- Political aspects
  • LCSH : Policy sciences
  • LCSH : Constructivism (Philosophy)
  • LCSH : Critical theory
  • LCSH : Discourse analysis