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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... sort of encompassing rationality has been the underlying theme of modernity. But now, in postmodern culture, rationality has overextended its capacity to rationalize and is beginning to undo itself. Our attempts to be evermore rational ...
... sort of encompassing rationality has been the underlying theme of modernity. But now, in postmodern culture, rationality has overextended its capacity to rationalize and is beginning to undo itself. Our attempts to be evermore rational ...
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... sort of contest may be thin gruel if we actually want robust debate, but the diminished viability of the public discourse has other contributors, too. For instance, the symbol manipulators are not always honest. These days we endure the ...
... sort of contest may be thin gruel if we actually want robust debate, but the diminished viability of the public discourse has other contributors, too. For instance, the symbol manipulators are not always honest. These days we endure the ...
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... sort information. Ideas grand and trivial occupy our thoughts with equal priority. A nearly overwhelming problem needs to be investigated: the taken-for-granted assumption that language is capable of mirroring facts and objective ...
... sort information. Ideas grand and trivial occupy our thoughts with equal priority. A nearly overwhelming problem needs to be investigated: the taken-for-granted assumption that language is capable of mirroring facts and objective ...
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... sort. Epistemology is often conceptualized as the study of scientific principles, universal truth, and its demonstra- tion. However, in practice it is evident that the best we can do is form common understandings with others who are ...
... sort. Epistemology is often conceptualized as the study of scientific principles, universal truth, and its demonstra- tion. However, in practice it is evident that the best we can do is form common understandings with others who are ...
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... Policy Inquiry, we confront the postmodern predicament most directly. Policy claims are like knowledge claims in that a community of inquirers must sort them. Inquirers try to figure out what xiv Postmodern Public Policy PLAN OF THE BOOK.
... Policy Inquiry, we confront the postmodern predicament most directly. Policy claims are like knowledge claims in that a community of inquirers must sort them. Inquirers try to figure out what xiv Postmodern Public Policy PLAN OF THE BOOK.
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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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