In the pages that follow, we argue that American representative democracy is neither representative nor democratic.Sovereign will formation is not happening. Lacking sovereign legitimacy, top-down bureaucratic rule is but petty autocracy. Worse, the postmodern condition that we describe deprives the culture at large of any robust basis in shared reality from which the sovereignty of the whole p…
Buku ini menggunakan pendekatan analitis yang dikekukakan oleh penulis mendorong perenungan lebih jauh mengenai semua masalah yang berhubungan dengan demokrasi dan memberikan suatu latar belakang teoritis yang kokoh bagi pembicaraan masa kini.
This book has been a long time in its writing, but fortunately as the decade has rolled on we have found that the simplistic private-good, public-bad propositions that heard in 1990 have been largerly discredited. The reader will find that s/he has a vast interdisiplinary range of concepts and analytical frame-works to explore.
Highlights of this third edition include: a discussion of current policy analysis and management issues, new approaches to organization theory, theoretical considerations as they relate to practical experience and an exploration of the future of public administration.
Looking forward to the decade of the 1990s, twenty-two of the thirty-two articles included here are new to this edition of Current Issues in Public Administration. To begin with, a new chapter has been added dealing with the relation between business and public administration. The article on computers and technology takes a unique approach, projecting the impact of these dramatic changes on man…