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The experience of work in hospital settings and nurse’s perceived need or desire to look for A less stressful, more satisfying job
B.H. Rountree, Russell PorterWork overload is an important and often singular objective for organizational interventions targeting nurse satisfaction and turnover in hospital settings around the world. The…
“Born again“ governmentality: the faith-based initiative as administrative agent
Chad B. Newswander, Lynita K. NewswanderA careful study demonstrates that President Bush has implemented the faith-based initiative as a method of governmentality, one which appears to be biased toward Christianity…
The construction of governance
Mark BevirThis paper offers a constructivist theory of governance. It begins by challenging rational choice and institutionalist accounts for neglecting meanings. If we are to take meanings…
A house of mirrors: administration and reality
R. McGreggor CawleyThis essay explores a possible anti-essentialist strategy for public administration. The argument presented is twofold. First, the concepts of objective, socially constructed, and…
The normalized bureaucrat
Kathleen A. McGinnThis article uses Michel Foucaultʼs theoretical work in examining relations of power within the unique context of street-level bureaucracies (Lipsky, 1980). Through Foucaultʼs…
The deformation of decentered subjects: foucault and postmodern public administration
Jennifer L. EaganIn Postmodern Public Administration: Toward Discourse (1995), Fox and Miller call for a postmodern discourse that can radicalize the reformist tendencies in public administration…
ISSN:
1093-4537Online date, start – end:
1998Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditor:
- Associate Professor Davide Secchi