Postmodern Public Administration (Hardcover, 2nd edition)

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 toward democratic openness and ethics. The authors incorporate insights from thinkers like Rorty, Giddens, Derrida, and Foucault to recast public administration as an arena of decentered practices. In their framework, ideographic collisions and everyday impasses bring about political events that challenge the status quo, creating possibilities for social change. "Postmodern Public Administration" is an outstanding intellectual achievement that has rewritten the political theory of public administration. This new edition will encourage everyone who reads it to think quite differently about democratic governance.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2006
First published:	2007
Authors:	Charles J. Fox • Hugh T. Miller
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	172
Edition:	2nd edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-7656-1704-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Public administration Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Central government > General
LSN:	0-7656-1704-8
Barcode:	9780765617040

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