Hugh T Miller

Postmodern Public Administration

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Produktbeschreibung

Offers counterbalance to the standard assessment-measurement-accountability prescriptions that have made showing you did your job more important than actually doing it. This title articulates a postmodern theory of public administration that challenges the field to redirect its attention toward democratic openness and ethics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 150mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9780765617057
• ISBN-10: 0765617056
• Artikelnr.: 22389260

Autorenporträt

Miller, Hugh T.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface PART ONE: Critique 1. A New Approach to Democratic Governance The
Argument 2. Orthodoxy and Its Alternatives I. The Loop Model of Democracy
II. Quixotic Mainstream Reforms III. The Institutionalist/Constitutionalist
Alternative IV. Communitarian/Citizen Alternative V. The Need for Discourse
Theory 3. The Growing Gap Between Words and Deeds: Postmodern Symbolic
Politics I. Modern/Postmodern II. Unstable Signs Leading to a Virtual
Reality III. Neotribalism and the Decentered Self IV. Postmodern
Conditions: Orthodoxy, Constitutionalism, and Communitarianism PART TWO:
Discourse Theory 4. Theoretical Underpinnings of Discourse Theory:
Phenomenology, Constructivism, Structuration Theory, and Energy Fields I.
Theoretical Base II. Using Constructivism to Deconstruct the "Conflated
Aggregation" Bureaucracy III. The Public Sphere as Energy Field 5. Warrants
for Discourse I. Policy as the Struggle for Meaning Capture II.
Authenticity, Ideal Speech, Agonistic Tension III. Revocable Warrants for
Discourse IV. Applications of Discourse 6. Nascent Forms of Discourse