The Bureaucratic Experience: The Post-Modern Challenge : The Post-Modern Challenge (Hardcover, 5 ed)

Foreword; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. Understanding Bureaucracy; Bureaucratic Experiences; Bureaucratic Patterns; Modern Self-Critique; Post-Modern Critique; A Brief Survey of Post-Modernism; A Case in Point: Post-Modernism Meets Sewage; The Danger; The Politics of Good and Evil; 2. Bureaucracy as Society: Loss of the Social; How People Act; What the Experts Say; Bureaucracy as Society; 3. Bureaucracy as Culture: 'Economics'; What Is Culture?; What People Value; What the Experts Say; Post-Modern vs. Modern Critique; The Economic Culture of Bureaucracy; 4. The Psychology of Bureaucracy: Organization as Psyche; Structuring the Psyche; Post-Modern Analysis; A Dis-Ease of the Soul; How People "Feel": Patrolman Williams; What the Experts Say; The Psychology of Bureaucracy; 5. The Language of Bureaucracy: Virtual Words; Speaking the Unspeakable; How People Speak; What the Experts Say; Bureaucratic Language; 6. The Thought of Bureaucracy: Failure of Imagination; Thinking; How Bureaucrats Think; What the Experts Say; Bureaucratic Thinking; Aesthetics: The Rise of Know-How; 7. Bureaucracy as Polity: Politics as Administration; Unlearning Politics; How People Politick; Bureaucrats as Transformers; The Politization of Bureaucracy; What the Experts Say; A Way from Bureaucratized Politics Epilogue; Bibliography; About the Author; Index.