The Prophecy of Public Administration: Bureaucracy, Modernity, and Postmodernity

Author: Famer
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Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features: This book employs a reflective linguistic model, viewing modernity and postmodernity as two human mental models and conducting a deconstructive reading of public administration discourse from these two dimensions. The author argues that, from a modernist perspective, public administration is constructed as a science, technology, enterprise, or an interpretation; whereas, from a postmodernist perspective, the emphasis on imagination, deconstruction, non-territorialization, and alterity provides opportunities for transforming public bureaucracy and the world of public administration. Here, all meaning is deconstructed, all boundaries are dissolved, and administration is replaced by anti-administration. This book will guide you through a refreshing world of thought and language in public administration.