2nd Edition
Postmodern Public Administration
172 Pages
by
Routledge
172 Pages
by
Routledge
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This widely acclaimed work provides a lively counterbalance to the standard assessment-measurement-accountability prescriptions that have made showing you did your job more important than actually doing it. Now extensively revised, it articulates a postmodern theory of public administration that challenges the field to redirect its attention away from narrow, technique-oriented scientism, and... Read more
Preface; 1. The Representative Democratic Accountability Feedback Loop; Orthodoxy; * Positivism in Public Administration; * Deconstructing the Loop Model; 2. Alternatives to Orthodoxy; Neoliberalism; * The Constitutionalist Alternative; * Communitarian/Citizen Alternative; 3. Hyperreality; Instability and Incommensurability; * Unstable Signs Leading to a Virtual Reality; * Neotribalism and the Decentered Self; * Symbolic Politics; * Hyperreality Versus the Alternatives; 4. The Social Construction of Government; Constructivist Social Theory; * Governmentality; 5. Ideographic Discourse; Symbols as Ordering Devices; * Ideography; * Relief from Dissonance; * The Archives; * Ideographic Events; 6. Conclusion; Orthodoxy and Its Alternatives; * Media Infused Hyperreality; * Constructivism and Governmentality; * A Field of Political Contestation; * The Changing Game; * Decoherence; * Implications; References; * About the Authors; Name Index; * Subject Index.
Biography
Hugh T. Miller, Charles J. Fox
