Postmodern Public Administration

Postmodern Public Administration

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.
Country USA
Brand Routledge
Manufacturer Routledge
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber references, name index, subject index
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780765617057
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Routledge
Manufacturer	Routledge
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	references, name index, subject index
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780765617057
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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