Brandon Ching
PAF 602 (Fall 2008)

Farmer, David J., (1995), The language of public administration: bureaucracy, modernity, and postmodernity, The University of Alabama Press.

Abstract

In The Language of Public Administration, David Farmer argues that the modern language of public administration, by which its scholars understand and approach the field (bureaucracy in particular), is limited. He suggests that the language of public administration can be expanded through the advent and acceptance of postmodernity and provides justification through the analysis of distinct characteristics in modernity and postmodernity. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: bureaucracy, David Farmer, deconstruction, deterritorialization, open-source, postmodernity, public administration, rationality