Looking for Postmodern Public Administration Theory
The primary reason it is difficult to pin down a description of postmodern public
administration theory or a serviceable definition of the postmodern perspective
is this: One cannot, it is claimed, understand, judge, or evaluate postmodern public
administration by using modernist criteria or standards (Farmer). When we are “involved with the assumptions of modernity and regard them
as constituting ‘common sense,’ we fail to understand and justify the claims of
postmodernity in terms of modernity”