Postmodern Public Administration

Informationen zum Autor Hugh T. Miller, Charles J. Fox Klappentext Provides a counterbalance to the standard assessment-measurement-accountability prescriptions that have made showing you did your job more important than actually doing it. This work articulates a postmodern theory of public administration that challenges the field to redirect its attention away from narrow, technique-oriented scientism. Zusammenfassung Provides a counterbalance to the standard assessment-measurement-accountability prescriptions that have made showing you did your job more important than actually doing it. This work articulates a postmodern theory of public administration that challenges the field to redirect its attention away from narrow, technique-oriented scientism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 The Representative Democratic Accountability Feedback Loop; Chapter 2 Alternatives to Orthodoxy; Chapter 3 Hyperreality; Chapter 4 The Social Construction of Government; Chapter 5 Ideographic Discourse; Chapter 6 Conclusion;

Product details

• Authors: Charles A. Fox, Charles J Fox, Hugh T Miller, Hugh T. Miller, Miller Hugh T.
• Publisher: Sharpe
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2006
• EAN: 9780765617040
• ISBN: 978-0-7656-1704-0
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, Public Administration, Central / national / federal government, Central government