Postmodernism and american publcic administration in the 1990s
By: BOGASON, Peter
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ArticlePublisher: Thousand Oaks : SAGE, May 2001Administration & Society 33, 2, p. 165-193Abstract: The 1990s debate on postmodernims as a metatheorectical basis for American public administration is review based on its process over time. Important themes in the debates are social constructivism and antifoundationalism; deconstruction and narrative and linguistic analysis; pragmatism; and quantum theory. Considerable differences exist between the participants; and strictly speaking, there are rather few true postmodernints, but there is a large group of theorists who share a strong skepticism for the gerneralizing type of theory and instead recommend more situational analysis. Most of these theorists are pragmantists with a strong interest in public administration as an instrument to achieve a better society on the basis of democratic participation
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The 1990s debate on postmodernims as a metatheorectical basis for American public administration is review based on its process over time. Important themes in the debates are social constructivism and antifoundationalism; deconstruction and narrative and linguistic analysis; pragmatism; and quantum theory. Considerable differences exist between the participants; and strictly speaking, there are rather few true postmodernints, but there is a large group of theorists who share a strong skepticism for the gerneralizing type of theory and instead recommend more situational analysis. Most of these theorists are pragmantists with a strong interest in public administration as an instrument to achieve a better society on the basis of democratic participation
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