The Language of Public Administration: Bureaucracy, Modernity and Postmodernity » (New Edition)

This original study specifies a reflexive language paradigm for public administration thinking and shows how a postmodern perspective permits a revolution in the character of thinking about public bureaucracy. The author considers imagination, deconstruction, deterritorialization, and alterity. Farmer's work emphasizes the need for an expansion in the character and scope of public administration's disciplinary concerns and shows clearly how the study and practice of public administration can be reinvigorated.

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The author points out limitations in the theory of public administration and proposes a reflexive, post-modernistic, and possibly revolutionary, language paradigm for public administration thinking. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)