Reiventing government as postmodern symbolic politics
By: FOX, Charles J
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ArticlePublisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, may/june 1996Public administration review: PAR 56, 3, p. 256-262Abstract: A theoretical orientation known as postmodernism has swept thrugh university humanities departments over the past decade. Can postmodernist insigts be used to help public administration understand the situations in which it is currently conducted? In this article Charles J. Fox argues the affirmative by applying concepts developed in postmodern thought to the reiventing government movement. Specifically, it is argued that mich of reivention can be understood not as substantive reform but as symbolic politics of particularly postmodern kind.
A theoretical orientation known as postmodernism has swept thrugh university humanities departments over the past decade. Can postmodernist insigts be used to help public administration understand the situations in which it is currently conducted? In this article Charles J. Fox argues the affirmative by applying concepts developed in postmodern thought to the reiventing government movement. Specifically, it is argued that mich of reivention can be understood not as substantive reform but as symbolic politics of particularly postmodern kind.
Public administration review PAR
May/June 1996 Volume 56 Number 3
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