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Postmodern Public Administration

By: Hugh T Miller,Hugh T. Miller,Charles J Fox

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Postmodern Public Administration

By: Hugh T Miller,Hugh T. Miller,Charles J Fox

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.

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Postmodern Public Administration

By: Hugh T Miller,Hugh T. Miller,Charles J Fox

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Postmodern Public Policy

By: Hugh T. Miller

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Postmodern Public Policy

By: Hugh T. Miller

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.

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State University of New York Press

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0791488039

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Narrative Politics in Public Policy

Legalizing Cannabis

By: Hugh T. Miller

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Narrative Politics in Public Policy

Legalizing Cannabis

By: Hugh T. Miller

This book draws on examples from cannabis policy discourse and elsewhere to illustrate how individuals come to subscribe to a particular policy narrative; how policy narratives evolve; how narratives are employed in public policy discourse to compete with other narratives; and how, on implementation, the winning narrative is performed and subsequently institutionalized. Further, it explores how uncertainty and ambiguity are constants in public policy discourse, and how different factions and groups pursue different goals and aspirations. In the current climate of political reality, disputable facts and contestable goals, this book shows how different coalitions and ideologies use narratives to compete for policy dominance.

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174

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Springer Nature

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3030453200

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9783030453206

Amish and Amish Mennonite Genealogies

By: Hugh F. Gingerich,Rachel W. Kreider

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Amish and Amish Mennonite Genealogies

By: Hugh F. Gingerich,Rachel W. Kreider

This encyclopedia for Amish genealogists is certainly the most definitive, comprehensive, and scholarly work on Amish genealogy that has ever been attempted. It is easy to understand why it required years of meticulous record-keeping to cover so many families (144 different surnames up to 1850). Covers all known Amish in the first settlements in America and shows their lineage for several generations. (955pp. index. hardcover. Pequea Bruderschaft Library, revised edition 2007.)

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1601260180

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Governing Narratives

Symbolic Politics and Policy Change

By: Hugh T. Miller

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Governing Narratives

Symbolic Politics and Policy Change

By: Hugh T. Miller

By highlighting the degree to which meaning making in public policy is more a cultural struggle than a rational and analytical project, Governing Narratives brings public administration back into a political context. In Governing Narratives, Hugh T. Miller takes a narrative approach in conceptualizing the politics of public policy. In this approach, signs and ideographs—that is, constellations of images, feelings, values, and conceptualization—are woven into policy narratives through the use of story lines. For example, the ideograph “acid rain” is part of an environmental narrative that links dead trees to industrial air pollution. The struggle for meaning capture is a political struggle, most in evidence during times of change or when status quo practices are questioned. Public policy is often considered to be the end result of empirical studies, quantitative analyses, and objective evaluation. But the empirical norms of science and rationality that have informed public policy research have also hidden from view those vexing aspects of public policy discourse outside of methodological rigor. Phrases such as “three strikes and you’re out” or “flood of immigrants” or “don’t ask, don’t tell” or “crack baby” or “the death tax” have come to play crucial roles in public policy, not because of the reality they are purported to reflect, but because the meanings, emotions, and imagery connoted by these symbolizations resonate in our culture. Social practices, the very material of social order and cultural stability, are inextricably linked to the policy discourse that accompanies social change. Eventually a winning narrative dominates and becomes institutionalized into practice and implemented via public administration. Policy is symbiotically associated with these winning narratives. Practices might change again, but this inevitably entails renewed political contestation. The competition among symbolizations does not imply that the best narrative wins, only that a narrative has won for the time being. However, unsettling the established narrative is a difficult political task, particularly when the narrative has evolved into habitual institutionalized practice. Governing Narratives convincingly links public policy to the discourse and rhetoric of deliberative politics.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817317732

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9780817317737

Understanding Social Work Research

By: Hugh McLaughlin

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Understanding Social Work Research

By: Hugh McLaughlin

Social work students need to understand the relationship between research, knowledge and practice to be effective practitioners. In the second edition of this highly regarded book, Hugh McLaughlin shows how a research-minded perspective and an appreciation of evidence-based practice can lead students to achieve the highest level of individual and collective social work practice. Topics covered include: - How to assess, appraise and apply research - The philosophy of research - Improving the use of research in practice - Interdisciplinary contributions to social work and social work research Providing reflexive questions, practice examples and suggested reading throughout, this book is essential reading for all undergraduate students of social work. It will also be valuable reading for postgraduates and qualified social workers wishing to consolidate their understanding of social work research.

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1446290646

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Sports Coaching Research

Context, Consequences, and Consciousness

By: Anthony Bush,Michael Silk,David Andrews,Hugh Lauder

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Sports Coaching Research

Context, Consequences, and Consciousness

By: Anthony Bush,Michael Silk,David Andrews,Hugh Lauder

This book raises critical questions about the explanatory framework guiding sports coaching research and presents a new conceptualization for research in the field. Through mapping and contextualizing sports coaching research within a corporatized higher education, the dominant or legitimate forms of sports coaching knowledge are problematized and a new vision of the field, which is socially and culturally responsive, communitarian and justice-oriented emerges.

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1136159096

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Postmodern Public Administration

Toward Discourse

By: Charles J. Fox,Hugh T. Miller

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Postmodern Public Administration

Toward Discourse

By: Charles J. Fox,Hugh T. Miller

Charles J Fox and Hugh T Miller challenge current thinking about public policy and administration in the light of the postmodern condition. In this book existing and accepted theories such as public management doctrines, constitutionalism and communitarianism are rejected in favour of constructing a discourse theory of public administration. The book also provides an invaluable, thorough and clear review of the doctrines and philosophies that have to date dominated the field.

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SAGE Publications, Incorporated

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0803958013

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9780803958012

Narrative Politics in Public Policy

Legalizing Cannabis

By: Hugh T. Miller

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Governing Narratives

Symbolic Politics and Policy Change

By: Hugh T. Miller

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Postmodern Public Administration

Postmodern Public Administration

Postmodern Public Administration

Postmodern Public Administration

Postmodern Public Policy

Postmodern Public Policy

Narrative Politics in Public Policy

Narrative Politics in Public Policy

Amish and Amish Mennonite Genealogies

Amish and Amish Mennonite Genealogies

Governing Narratives

Governing Narratives

Understanding Social Work Research

Understanding Social Work Research

Sports Coaching Research

Sports Coaching Research

Postmodern Public Administration

Postmodern Public Administration

Narrative Politics in Public Policy

Narrative Politics in Public Policy

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Governing Narratives

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