Modernism, postmodernism and public administration

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  • Murat Yıldırım Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, Kamu Yönetimi Bölümü

Keywords:

Modernism, Postmodernism, Bureaucracy, Post-Bureaucratic Organisations

Abstract

In this study, the impacts of modernism and postmodernism on public administration have been comperatively examined. This distinction between modernism and postmodernism also expresses different living and thinking ways in point of perceiving and giving meaning to social life. This situation naturally denotes in the field of administration. While bureaucratic organisations become experienced modernism, post-bureaucratic organisations reflect postmodern life in a way that postmodernism rejects modern viewpoint.

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Author Biography

Murat Yıldırım, Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, Kamu Yönetimi Bölümü

I was born in Bursa, on 23.07.1977. I completed my primary education school in Samsun Gülsüm Sami Kefeli Elementary School and my secondary school education in Samsun 19 Mayıs High School. I studied my undergraduate program between 1994-1998, graduate program between 1999-2001, and doctoral program between 2002-2006 in the Department of Public Administration in Cumhuriyet University. I started to work as a research assistant in the Discipline of Administrative Sciences in the Department of Public Administration in the Faculty of  Economics and Administrative Sciences. In the same university and department, I became an assistant professor in 2007.

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Published

2010-03-13

How to Cite

Yıldırım, M. (2010). Modernism, postmodernism and public administration. Journal of Human Sciences, 7(1), 703–719. Retrieved from https://j-humansciences.com/ojs/index.php/IJHS/article/view/803

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Public Administration