Postmodern Public Policy

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

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Confronts the challenge presented to traditional public policy by postmodern thought.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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Utgivningsdatum2002-08-29
Mått139 x 215 x 11 mm
Vikt191 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in Public Policy
Antal sidor132
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780791454909

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Hugh T. Miller is Professor and Director of the School of Public Administration at Florida Atlantic University. He has published several books, including These Things Happen: Stories from the Public Sector (coedited with Mohamad G. Alkadry); Postmodernism, "Reality," and Public Administration: A Discourse (coedited with Charles J. Fox); and Postmodern Public Administration: Toward Discourse (coauthored with Charles J. Fox).

Preface Brief of the Argument Plan of the Book Acknowledgments 1. The System and its Nemesis EncroachmentsHyperrationality 2. The Mutation of Meaning Some Examples of the DisconnectThe Instability of Language 3. Idea Contagion MemeticsMemetics and PostmodernismThe Prospects for Rational Sorting 4. Contextualism Situation and IntentionalityPractical DiscourseA Perspective on Change 5. Policy Inquiry Epistemology as Abstract UniveralismFacts Are Word-Shaped ThingsSelf-Referential SystemsPerspectival Small t Truth 6. Democratic Discourse The End of Universals?Monologic Discourse: An OxymoronVibrant PluralismAn Ethos of Discourse References Index

"Unique in its approach, not only because it offers a coherent postmodernist argument for public policy, but also because it is an innovative synthesis of seemingly disparate theories of 'memetics' and postmodernism. Miller offers a fresh perspective of the public policy process." — Göktugá Morçöl, coeditor of New Sciences for Public Administration and Policy: Connections and Reflections"A different, even subversive, way of thinking about public policy. Full of insights, unexpected ramifications, and new connections about well-known material. An important and substantial work." — R. McGreggor Cawley, coeditor of A Wolf in the Garden: The Land Rights Movement and the New Environmental Debate