Papers on the art of anti-administration
By: David John Farmer, editor.
Contributors: Farmer, David John, 1935-
Publisher: Chatelaine Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Burke, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: Public administration.; Bureaucracy.; Postmodernism -- Political aspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Puzzle : meta-perspectives and some possible P.A. implications; title: Stories from the "real world" : administering anti-administratively; title: Public administration discourse as play with a purpose; title: Feminisms, public administration and the serial woman; title: Recognizing the right brain in organizations; title: Deciding the undecidable : a few things postmodernism might have to offer public administration; title: Social construction of concepts : the case of efficiency; title: Kill the king : Foucault and public administration theory; title: A postmodern reading of Paradise lost : satan as public administrationist; title: Public architecture as social anchor in the postmodern age; title: Multiple perspectives on some epiphenomenal policy topics; title: Surrealism in administrative studies : the fantastic used as a method of elucidation?; title: Critique, "reality," and resistance : reflections of a post-modern agnostic.