Postmodern Public PolicyState University of New York Press, 01/02/2012 - 132 من الصفحات Postmodern Public Policy introduces new ways of investigating the urgent difficulties confronting the public sector. The second half of the twentieth century saw approaches to public administration, public policy, and public management dominated by technical-instrumental thought that aspired to neutrality, objectivity, and managerialism. This form of social science has contributed to a public sector where policy debates have been reduced to "bumper-sticker" slogans, a citizenry largely alienated and distant from government, and analysis that ignores history and context and eschews the lived experiences of actual people. Hugh T. Miller brings together the latest thinking from epistemology, evolutionary theory, and discourse theory in an accessible and useful manner to emphasize how a postmodern approach offers the possibility of well-considered, pragmatic solutions grounded in political pluralism and social interaction between public service professionals and community members. |
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الصفحة viii
... social formation ofpeople who practice science in historically contingent ways, says Kuhn (1970). Its story is but a metanarrative about truth, says Lyotard, and science is not itself truth. Meanwhile, history is carrying us further ...
... social formation ofpeople who practice science in historically contingent ways, says Kuhn (1970). Its story is but a metanarrative about truth, says Lyotard, and science is not itself truth. Meanwhile, history is carrying us further ...
الصفحة ix
... social practice. Idealists who moralize about equality-the-principle often ... practices be configured, or reconfigured, so that the history of self ... social Preface ix.
... social practice. Idealists who moralize about equality-the-principle often ... practices be configured, or reconfigured, so that the history of self ... social Preface ix.
الصفحة x
... social practices, “citizen” and “community” cannot be the useful reifications they are at the level of abstraction. Whether I succeed in bringing thoughtful attention to enacted social practices will be for the readers to decide. The ...
... social practices, “citizen” and “community” cannot be the useful reifications they are at the level of abstraction. Whether I succeed in bringing thoughtful attention to enacted social practices will be for the readers to decide. The ...
الصفحة xiii
... practice it is evident that the best we can do is form common understandings with others who are interested in the same vexations and the same social problems. The demonstration of uni- versal truth is beyond reach in the social ...
... practice it is evident that the best we can do is form common understandings with others who are interested in the same vexations and the same social problems. The demonstration of uni- versal truth is beyond reach in the social ...
الصفحة xiv
... social practices must access the context and the historical traditions of those whose practices are expected to change. Stability and order emanate from those traditions and practices, but these same practices are potentially malleable ...
... social practices must access the context and the historical traditions of those whose practices are expected to change. Stability and order emanate from those traditions and practices, but these same practices are potentially malleable ...
المحتوى
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2 The Mutation of Meaning | 21 |
3 Idea Contagion | 33 |
4 Contextualism | 51 |
5 Policy Inquiry | 65 |
6 Democratic Discourse | 87 |
References | 105 |
Index | 113 |
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