Postmodern Public Administration

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ISBN: 9780765617057 | 0765617056
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Copyright: 10/15/2006

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Now extensivley revised, this widely-acclaimed work challenges the field of public administration to redirect its attention away from narrow, technique-oriented scientism, and toward democratic openess and ethics.

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Preface
The Representative Democratic Accountability Feedback Loop
Orthodoxy
Positivism in Public Administration
Deconstructing the Loop Model
Alternatives to Orthodoxy
Neoliberalism
The Constitutionalist Alternative
Communitarian/Citizen Alternative
Hyperreality
Instability and Incommensurability
Unstable Signs Leading to a Virtual Reality
Neotribalism and the Decentered Self
Symbolic Politics
Hyperreality Versus the Alternatives
The Social Construction of Government
Constructivist Social Theory
Governmentality
Ideographic Discourse
Symbols as Ordering Devices
Ideography
Relief from Dissonance
Events, Impases, and the Authority of the Archives
Ideographic Events
Conclusion
Orthodoxy and Its Alternatives
Media-Infused Hyperreality
Constructivism and Governmentality
A Fields of Political Contestation
The Changing Game
Decoherence
Implications
Reference
Name Index
Subject Index
About the Authors
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