“后现代主义”语境中的公共行政概念

The Concept of Public Administration under the Postmodernism Context

20世纪后期,后现代主义思潮逐渐渗透到了公共行政的研究之中,为公共行政学科带来了一种后现代气息。后现代公共行政宣布了现代主义公共行政的失败,要求公共行政改变其控制导向,批评公共行政的控制追求引发了社会群体间的对抗,提出在公共行政中建立起包容他者与包容差异的文化。后现代公共行政显然是对现代主义公共行政的一种反叛,因而,遭遇了现代主义公共行政护卫者的猛烈反击,双方形成了一种激烈的交锋。在这种交锋中,后现代公共行政更加充分的阐释了解构现代公共行政的立场和观点。

By the late 20th century, postmodemism has gradually penetrated into the study of public administration, bringing some postmodern flavor to the discipline of Public Administration. The emergence of postmodem public administration announced the failure of the modernist public administration, required public administration to change its control-orientation, criticized of public administration＇s pursuit of control for evoking confrontation between social groups, and proposed to establish a culture in public administration which is inclusive of others and differences. Postmodem public administration is clearly a rebel against modernist public administration, thus it suffered a fierce counterattack from guardians of modernist public administration, and the two sides fought a vigorous battle. In this battle, postmodem public administration fully interpreted its standpoint and opinions of deconstructing modernist public administration.