The Language of Public Administration--Bureaucracy, Modernity and Postmodernity

Author: (USA) Famer / Wu Qiong
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Publish Date: 2006-02-17
Features: This book employs a reflective language model, viewing modernity and postmodernity as two human mental models and conducting a deconstructive reading of public administration discourse from these two dimensions. The authors argue that, from a modernist perspective, public administration is constructed as a science, technology, enterprise, or 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.