CONTENTS
Foreword = ⅳ
Preface = xiv
PART ONE : Critique = 1
1. A New Approach to Democratic Governance = 3
The Argument = 4
A. Orthodoxy and Its Alternatives = 4
B. Postmodern Problematic = 6
C. Theoretical Grounding for Discourse Theory = 8
D. Warrants for Discourse = 10
E. Nascent Forms of Discourse = 12
2. Orthodoxy and Its Alternatives = 14
Ⅰ. The Loop Model of Democracy = 15
A. Evidence That the Loop Is Mythical = 16
B. The Folly of Binding Behavior by Writing Rules = 18
Ⅱ. Quixotic Mainstream Reforms = 19
A. Ethics Reform = 21
B. Civil Service Reform = 23
Ⅲ. The Institutionalist／Constitutionalist Alternative = 25
A. Rohr's Thesis = 26
B. Critique of Constitutionalism = 27
Ⅳ. Communitarian／Critizen Alternative = 32
A. Communitarianism : Bedrock View = 33
B. Communitarianism : Criticisms and Responses = 35
V. The Need for Discourse Theory = 39
3. The Growing Gap Between Words and Deeds : Postmodern Symbolic Politics = 42
Ⅰ. Modern／Postmodern = 43
Ⅱ. Unstable Signs Leading to a Virtual Reality = 46
A. Stable Communication／Epiphenomenalism = 46
B. Referents Yield to Self-Referential Signs = 50
C. The Thinning of "Reality" = 56
Ⅲ. Neotribalism and the Decentered Self = 59
A. Otherness and Incommensurability = 60
B. The Decentering of the Self = 63
Ⅳ. Postmodern Conditions : Orthodoxy, Constitutionalism, and Communitarianism = 64
A. Modern and Postmodern Symbolic Politics = 64
B. Undoing the Canons = 67
C. Talking Past One Another in Serialized Hyperreality = 68
PART TWO : Discourse Theory = 73
4. Theoretical Underpinnings of Discourse Theory : Phenomenology, Constructivism Theory, and Energy Fields = 77
Ⅰ. Theoretical Base = 77
A. Why We Need Innovative "Constructivist" Social Theory = 77
B. Phenomenological Underpinnings of Constructivism = 79
C. Constructivism = 85
D. Constructivism and Structuration Theory = 86
E. Recursive Practices = 87
F. Institutions Are Habits = 90
Ⅱ. Using Constructivism to Deconstruct the "Conflated Aggregation" Bureaucracy = 92
A. Determinism and Probabilism = 93
B. Methods and the Meaning of Bureaucracy = 96
C. Summing Up Deconstructing Bureaucracy = 99
Ⅲ. The Public Sphere as Energy Field = 100
A. Physics, Metaphors, Phenomena = 101
B. Elements of the Public Energy Field = 105
5. Warrants for Discourse = 111
Ⅰ. Policy as the Struggle for Meaning Capture = 112
Ⅱ. Authenticity, Ideal Speech, Agonistic Tension = 114
Ⅲ. Revocable Warrants for Discourse = 120
A. Sincerity = 121
B. Situation-Regarding Intentionality = 123
C. Willing Attention = 125
D. Substantive Contribution = 125
Ⅳ. Applications of Discourse = 127
6. Nascent Forms of Discourse = 129
Ⅰ. Policy Talk = 129
A. Monologic Manipulation = 130
B. Expressionist Anarchy = 138
C. Intimations of Discourse = 141
Ⅱ. Some-Talk in Policy Networks = 149
A. Nondiscursive Policy Networks = 150
B. A Proactive Role for Public Administration = 157
References = 160
Name Index = 168
Subject Index = 171
About the Authors = 174
