Jay D White

Taking Language Seriously

The Narrative Foundations of Public Administration Research

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The logic of research in public administration, argues Jay D. White, may be more like that of storytelling than of conventional social science research. In this book, he examines the linguistic, discursive, and narrative foundations of public administration research and develops a narrative theory of knowledge development and use for the field. White builds his case for this narrative theory by showing how research on complex problems is grounded in language and discourse. He then explains how a variety of recent developments in philosophy and the humanities -- positivism, postpositivism, hermeneutics, critical and legal theory, postmodernism, and poststructuralism -- can contribute to our understanding of public administration research. This comprehensive yet clear discussion of the philosophical foundations of research in public administration advances an alternative theory of knowledge development that will be valuable for everyone in fields seeking to affect social, political, economic, and organizational change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Georgetown University Press
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9780878408788
• ISBN-10: 0878408789
• Artikelnr.: 22218870

Autorenporträt

Jay D. White is a professor of public administration at the University of Nebraska, Omaha and coeditor of Research in Public Administration: Reflections on Theory and Practice (Sage Publications, 1994). He is editor of the annual, Research in Public Administration.