Postmodern Public Administration

Miller, Hugh T.; Fox, Charles J.

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“…Kausaaliyhteyksien todentaminen julkisen sektorin toiminnan ja syntyneiden vaikutuksien välillä on usein problemaattista (Midwinter 2009;Hatry 2002). Problemaattisuus johtuu siitä, että vaikutuksia selittävistä julkisen sektorin ulkopuolisista tekijöistä on usein hankala saada informaatiota (Miller & Fox 2007) ja nämä tekijät voivat selittää syntyneitä vaikutuksia paljon paremmin kuin mikään mitattu julkisen sektorin toiminta (Anthony & Young 1988). Lisävaikeutta kausaliteettien mittaamiseen tuo myös se, että useat julkisen sektorin toimintaohjelmat linkittyvät toisiin toimintaohjelmiin ja lukuisiin toimintaohjelmien alaisiin alaohjelmiin (Diamond 2005) sekä erilaisiin toimintapoliitikoihin ja virastoihin (Newcomer 2015).…”

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Näkökulmia tilintarkastukseen ja arviointiin

Leponiemi¹,

Ruohonen²,

Wacker³

et al. 2017

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Näkökulmia tilintarkastukseen ja arviointiin

Leponiemi¹,

Ruohonen²,

Wacker³

et al. 2017

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“…Miller and Fox (2007) refer to this unremittingness of social transformation as "the politics of change" (pp. 116-118).…”

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Agonistic Moderation

Stanisevski

2014

Administration & Society

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The article argues that despite frequent debates about the excesses of government, public administration lacks a systematic theoretical examination of the concept of moderation. To that end, the article first questions the ancient Hellenic wisdom of moderation, which necessitates observance of the limits of the self. In concluding that the classic approach is restrictively conservative, the article builds on Nietzsche to propose an alternative approach, agonistic moderation. Agonistic moderation offers a possibility for challenging the situational boundaries of the self in a healthy contest in a community that serves as both the soil and the weight on the individual ambition.

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“…Deemed a complicated concept to grasp with no agreed-upon definition, in most basic terms, postmodernism argues that there is no absolute truth and that the principal structures on which our whole society is built are social constructs (e.g., class, power, gender). Therefore, postmodernism can be understood as a host of critical and rhetorical practices that rely on destabilizing established concepts and promoting new ones, e.g., ontological and epistemological certainty and unambiguous meaning vs. disrupted, unbalanced reality, simulacrum, and hyperreality (Aylesworth, 2015;Baudrillard, 1994;Miller & Fox, 2007).…”

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“…Perhaps Miller and Fox's (2007) definition outlining postmodern public administration is closest to the understanding of postmodernism adopted here: "Postmodern thought calls into question institutions as we know them, and also challenges ontological presuppositions about society and the individual" (p. ix). Accompanied by cracks in the established epistemological monolith, this results in a loss of narrative coherence-something that gives rise to unstable communicative practices (Aylesworth, 2015).…”

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Symbolic politics and government response to a national emergency: Narrating the COVID-19 crisis

Dzhurova

2020

Administrative Theory & Praxis

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The U.S. government's response to the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic has raised questions of whether its role is in fact limited to symbolic politics courtesy of its highly fragmented authority. This paper deconstructs the most prominent federal government outreach to the American people at the outset of the COVID-19 crisis-the White House Coronavirus Task Force briefings, to show how government actions have been communicated to the public. Within the K€ ubler-Ross' five-stage theory of grief, several narratives are surveyed as they are being circulated, tested and/or abandoned. It is argued that engaging in the enactment of narratives is one logical avenue for a crisis mitigation reimagined in postmodern terms. This serves as yet another reminder of how policy deliberation could be replaced with symbolic acts via discursive manipulation to the detriment of democratic public administration.

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Postmodern Public Administration

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Näkökulmia tilintarkastukseen ja arviointiin

Näkökulmia tilintarkastukseen ja arviointiin

Agonistic Moderation

Symbolic politics and government response to a national emergency: Narrating the COVID-19 crisis

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