Postmodern Public Policy

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Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791488039
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Book Synopsis Postmodern Public Policy by : Hugh T. Miller

Download or read book Postmodern Public Policy written by Hugh T. Miller and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Postmodernism and Public Policy

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Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791451663
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Book Synopsis Postmodernism and Public Policy by : John B. Cobb

Download or read book Postmodernism and Public Policy written by John B. Cobb and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Develops a naturalistic postmodern perspective to make constructive proposals about a wide range of topics now in public discussion.

Postmodernism and Public Policy

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Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791489655
Total Pages : 225 pages
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Book Synopsis Postmodernism and Public Policy by : John B. Cobb Jr.

Download or read book Postmodernism and Public Policy written by John B. Cobb Jr. and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of America's preeminent systematic theologians, John B. Cobb Jr. examines a range of social issues in his latest groundbreaking work, Postmodernism and Public Policy. Cobb uses a naturalistic postmodern perspective to make constructive proposals about a wide range of topics in the public eye. Postmodernism and Public Policy shows how a postmodern Christianity can contribute positively to thinking about religious and cultural pluralism, and how this can give direction to the educational enterprise. It proposes ways of understanding sex, gender, and race that take diversity seriously without lapsing into a debilitating relativism that inhibits political action. Arguing for a shift from individualism to thinking of persons-in-community, it proposes that the world be organized from the bottom up in communities of communities, and spells out what this implies for the political and economic orders and the relationship between them. Cobb shows that formulations on all these topics can be coherently interconnected and he develops the implications of such thinking for some specific ethical and political issues that now trouble the United States, such as abortion, physician-assisted suicide, and homosexuality.

Public Policy and Local Governance

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Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
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Book Synopsis Public Policy and Local Governance by : Peter Bogason

Download or read book Public Policy and Local Governance written by Peter Bogason and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationalization and demands for more democratic influence at the local level have undermined the traditional methods of policy analysis. This work offers an institutional analysis of the new networks in public governance. Takes a postmodern approach which recognizes fragmentation within institutional organizations, and offers an alternative bottom-up approach to the analysis of local governance. Discusses collective action at the local level and describes how it is linked to the public sector through the need for financial, expert, and legal resources. Bogason teaches public administration at Roskilde University, Denmark. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Postmodern Public Administration

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317478436
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Book Synopsis Postmodern Public Administration by : Hugh T Miller

Download or read book Postmodern Public Administration written by Hugh T Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This widely acclaimed work provides a lively counterbalance to the standard assessment-measurement-accountability prescriptions that have made showing you did your job more important than actually doing it. Now extensively revised, it articulates a postmodern theory of public administration that challenges the field to redirect its attention away from narrow, technique-oriented scientism, and toward democratic openness and ethics. The authors incorporate insights from thinkers like Rorty, Giddens, Derrida, and Foucault to recast public administration as an arena of decentered practices. In their framework, ideographic collisions and everyday impasses bring about political events that challenge the status quo, creating possibilities for social change. "Postmodern Public Administration" is an outstanding intellectual achievement that has rewritten the political theory of public administration. This new edition will encourage everyone who reads it to think quite differently about democratic governance.

Postmodern Public Policy

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Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791454893
Total Pages : 142 pages
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Book Synopsis Postmodern Public Policy by : Hugh Theodore Miller

Download or read book Postmodern Public Policy written by Hugh Theodore Miller and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2002-08-29 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Postmodern Politics for a Planet in Crisis

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Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791414866
Total Pages : 252 pages
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Book Synopsis Postmodern Politics for a Planet in Crisis by : David Ray Griffin

Download or read book Postmodern Politics for a Planet in Crisis written by David Ray Griffin and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-07-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the planetary crisis, which has been produced by modernity, demands a postmodern politics, especially in the United States, the chief embodiment and exporter of modernity. What is needed is an America that promotes a new world order that is genuinely new—one based on a concern for the human race as a whole, and on a sustainable relationship between the human species and the rest of the biosphere. John B. Cobb, Jr., Richard Falk, David Ray Griffin, Wes Jackson, Frank Kelly, Frances Moore Lappé, Joanna Macy, Douglas Sloan, Jim Wallis, and Roger Wilkins write about various dimensions of this postmodern politics, including its educational aims, morality, time-consciousness, and ecological sensibility, its agricultural and other environmental policies, its truly democratic process, and a postmodern presidency. This book provides the most complete prescription yet for the kind of presidential leadership we need and the kind of transformation in the body politic necessary to evoke and complement such leadership.

Postmodernism And The Politics Of 'Culture'

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429977751
Total Pages : 244 pages
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Book Synopsis Postmodernism And The Politics Of 'Culture' by : Adam Katz

Download or read book Postmodernism And The Politics Of 'Culture' written by Adam Katz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodernism and the Politics of 'Culture' is a comparative critical analysis of the political and intellectual ambitions of postmodernist critical theory and the academic discipline of cultural studies. Katz's polemical aim is to show that cultural studies comes up short in both areas, because its practitioners focus on too-narrow issues-primarily, celebrating the folkways of micro-communities-while denying the very possibility of studying, understanding, and changing society in any comprehensive way and to any universally beneficial purpose. He argues that scholars and activists alike would do well to make use of the analytical tools of postmodernist critical theory, whose practitioners acknowledge the political significance of the differences between social groups, but do not consider them to be unbridgeable, and so seek to develop a set of practices for creating a truly inclusive, truly democratic public sphere.

A Pictorial History of Costume

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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis A Pictorial History of Costume by : Wolfgang Bruhn

Download or read book A Pictorial History of Costume written by Wolfgang Bruhn and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... With its 200 plates representing nearly 4000 specimens of costumes the book embraces the whole subject of the history of costume. It presents a survey of the most important garments of all times and all peoples from Antiquity to the end of the 19th century ..."--Preface

Postmodern Public Administration

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Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9780765630483
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)

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Book Synopsis Postmodern Public Administration by : Miller

Download or read book Postmodern Public Administration written by Miller and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers counterbalance to the standard assessment-measurement-accountability prescriptions that have made showing you did your job more important than actually doing it. This title articulates a postmodern theory of public administration that challenges the field to redirect its attention toward democratic openness and ethics.

Postmodern Education

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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452900094
Total Pages : 218 pages
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Book Synopsis Postmodern Education by : Stanley Aronowitz

Download or read book Postmodern Education written by Stanley Aronowitz and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Explaining Postmodernism

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Publisher : Scholargy Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781592476428
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (764 download)

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Book Synopsis Explaining Postmodernism by : Stephen R. C. Hicks

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Postmodern Public Administration

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Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Postmodern Public Administration by : Charles J. Fox

Download or read book Postmodern Public Administration written by Charles J. Fox and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1995 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Fox and Miller define public administration theory and public management doctrine as an orthodoxy that is intellectually bankrupt and democratically unacceptable. Constitutionalism and communitarianism get similar treatment. Next, the authors construct a new theoretical position defined as constructivism and based on critical theory, phenomenology and structuration theory.

Sociopolitics

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Publisher : Guernica Editions
ISBN 13 : 9780920717998
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (179 download)

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Book Synopsis Sociopolitics by : Paris Arnopoulos

Download or read book Sociopolitics written by Paris Arnopoulos and published by Guernica Editions. This book was released on 1995 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of six essays explores Sociopolitics as the process of political development in postmodern societies in their three aspects: informatic, ecologic and technologic. Within this conceptual framework, the essays examine the politics of telecommunication as well as environmentalism and developmentalism in an era of transition from consumer to coserver societies. The main thesis of this book is that the emerging postindustrial era in the turn of the millennium is characterised by a convergence of politics, technics and physics. As the public affairs of social responsibility, technical sophistication and environmental concern, this book is based on a novel theory of Sociophysics, emphasising the metaphors between natural and cultural systems. From the global perspective, this study joins the perennial debate on the human condition and the new dilemmas facing us presently.

Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400820618
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Book Synopsis Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences by : Pauline Marie Rosenau

Download or read book Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences written by Pauline Marie Rosenau and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1991-11-05 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-modernism offers a revolutionary approach to the study of society: in questioning the validity of modern science and the notion of objective knowledge, this movement discards history, rejects humanism, and resists any truth claims. In this comprehensive assessment of post-modernism, Pauline Rosenau traces its origins in the humanities and describes how its key concepts are today being applied to, and are restructuring, the social sciences. Serving as neither an opponent nor an apologist for the movement, she cuts through post-modernism's often incomprehensible jargon in order to offer all readers a lucid exposition of its propositions. Rosenau shows how the post-modern challenge to reason and rational organization radiates across academic fields. For example, in psychology it questions the conscious, logical, coherent subject; in public administration it encourages a retreat from central planning and from reliance on specialists; in political science it calls into question the authority of hierarchical, bureaucratic decision-making structures that function in carefully defined spheres; in anthropology it inspires the protection of local, primitive cultures from First World attempts to reorganize them. In all of the social sciences, she argues, post-modernism repudiates representative democracy and plays havoc with the very meaning of "left-wing" and "right-wing." Rosenau also highlights how post-modernism has inspired a new generation of social movements, ranging from New Age sensitivities to Third World fundamentalism. In weighing its strengths and weaknesses, the author examines two major tendencies within post-modernism, the largely European, skeptical form and the predominantly Anglo-North-American form, which suggests alternative political, social, and cultural projects. She draws examples from anthropology, economics, geography, history, international relations, law, planning, political science, psychology, sociology, urban studies, and women's studies, and provides a glossary of post-modern terms to assist the uninitiated reader with special meanings not found in standard dictionaries.

Truth and Post-Truth in Public Policy

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108847412
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis Truth and Post-Truth in Public Policy by : Frank Fischer

Download or read book Truth and Post-Truth in Public Policy written by Frank Fischer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phenomenon of post-truth poses a problem for the public policy-oriented sciences, including policy analysis. Along with “fake news,” the post-truth denial of facts constitutes a major concern for numerous policy fields. Whereas a standard response is to call for more and better factual information, this Element shows that the effort to understand this phenomenon has to go beyond the emphasis on facts to include an understanding of the social meanings that get attached to facts in the political world of public policy. The challenge is thus seen to be as much about a politics of meaning as it is about epistemology. The analysis here supplements the examination of facts with an interpretive policy-analytic approach to gain a fuller understanding of post-truth. The importance of the interpretive perspective is illustrated by examining the policy arguments that have shaped policy controversies related to climate change and coronavirus denial.

Public Management in the Postmodern Era

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Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781847209788
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (97 download)

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Book Synopsis Public Management in the Postmodern Era by : John Fenwick

Download or read book Public Management in the Postmodern Era written by John Fenwick and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a set of essays on sense-making in a public sector world that previously contained a dearth of relevant theory. Moving beyond orthodoxies of policy and management, this work advances the critical position that post-modernism must be relevant to practice.