Postmodernism in American public administration: a postmortem
This article presents a critical “postmortem” on the debate between modernism and postmodernism in American public administration. It argues that postmodernism was simply an extension of modernism, one that revealed a set of repressed theoretical complications at the core of the...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2003 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) |
| Repositorio: | Revista de Administração Pública |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.periodicos.fgv.br:article/6732 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.fgv.br/rap/article/view/6732 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | modernism postmodernism American public administration relativism globalism. modernismo pós-modernismo administração pública americana relativismo globalismo. |
| Sumario: | This article presents a critical “postmortem” on the debate between modernism and postmodernism in American public administration. It argues that postmodernism was simply an extension of modernism, one that revealed a set of repressed theoretical complications at the core of the modernist framework. The underlying similarity of the two schools of thought is described through analysis of the key issues: radical absurdity, self-referentiality, and nihilism. While depicted as essentially similar, modernism and post-modernism are shown as pointing in opposite directions for finding a basis for governance. The advent of globalism, however, renders the debatemoot and suggests that postmodernism served as a venue for moving toward the paradigm appropriate to this new era. |
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