Hugh T Miller
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3620165 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Hugh T Miller |
| PRENOMES | Hugh T |
| SOBRENOME | Miller |
| ASSINATURA | MILLER H T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Florida Atlantic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2122-1860 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 50 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 161 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1990 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Political contestation in policy implementation
The policy literature increasingly recognizes the political dynamics in play during implementation, including participation and competition. Yet the complexity of policy contestation following enactment confounds scholars’ efforts to generalize. Predictive generalization is not the end-goal of narrative inquiry, yet it a useful approach to the study of political competition. Using the Narrative Politics model to analyze a needle exchange program …
Narrative Politics in Policy Discourse
Safe injection sites are spaces where people who inject drugs can do so under the supervision of staff at the sites who attempt to revive them if they overdose. Public officials in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have proposed the sites as a means to reduce opioid overdose deaths in the city, a policy proposal that has been politically and legally contested. This article uses the Narrative Politics model to elucidate the concerns, values, and aspirat…
Policy narratives
The ontological and epistemological footing of narrative policy research remains uncertain. In this article, interpretive approaches to policy narrative research are advanced and scientism is eschewed. Other themes in the policy narrative literature that serve as points of divergence and/or convergence include: 1) The structural features of a policy narrative; 2) The semiotic nature of policy narratives; 3) Epistemological politics; 4) Emancipato…
Relativism
Frank Fischer’s (2019) contribution is an excellent account of social constructivism for students of public policy. He argues persuasively that neither postmodernism nor social constructivism is re
On Legitimacy
Public administration scholarship has a long-standing tradition of examining the legitimacy of public administration. One of the motives behind this literature is the necessity to defend against constant criticisms directed toward public administration research, theory, and practice. In this article, we shift the focus from defending public administration by conceptualizing and accepting it as an illegitimate and stigmatized institution—one that …
Narrative subscription in public policy discourse
Affect and identity are often recognized as important considerations in critical policy studies. But because these notions lack materiality, it is not observably obvious how they function in policy discourse. Their function can be understood by adopting the concept of narrative subscription. This conceptualization raises the prominence of narrative, treating it as the key observable feature of a policy discourse. Narratives are made resonant, coh…
From social constructivist epistemology to context realism
Numerous important concepts we use in policy studies lack material being, including collective will, altruism, passion, experience, and social structure. Lack of materiality has not prevented social constructivists, especially feminists and phenomenologists, from making significant intellectual contributions using such concepts. But in this article I envisage that, after the linguistic turn, we could do better by now turning to context realism as…
Scientism versus social constructionism in critical policy studies
What is not to like about this approach to public policy studies that we are calling a narrative policy framework? Well, the first thing I do not like is when they capitalize it, as in Narrative Po
Introduction to the Symposium
This symposium interrogates the notion of neutral public administration. Consistent with Weber’s (1978) description of bureaucracy, administrators are expected to fulfill certain duties and to perf
Introduction to the Symposium, Part 2
The power of narrative in environmental networks , by Raul Lejano, Mrill Ingram, and Helen Ingram
The Power of Narrative in Environmental Networks is cutting-edge research that links networks and narratives: Networks narrate themselves into existence, say the authors. I take this seemingly offb...
Narrative Competition in Public Discourse
This article illustrates narrative evolution by considering narrative data from a university classroom exercise that inflamed religious and right-wing sensibilities. Following Miller's conceptualization, narratives are presumed to compete for dominance in an environment of human communication. The viability of an evolutionary approach to narrative analysis was assessed. Alterity, heresy, gatekeeping, and association were anticipated. The practice…
Building Social Cohesion
While material gain continues to be a leading motivator for corrupt acts, this study shows that social status and kinship responsibilities should also be considered possible precursors to corruption. This finding has important implications for constructing an appropriate understanding of corruption, designing anticorruption policies, and achieving ethical governance in developing democracies
Governing Narratives
Is Bureaucracy No Longer the Technically Superior Form of Organization
(2011). Is Bureaucracy No Longer the Technically Superior Form of Organization? Administrative Theory & Praxis: Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 447-452
Symposium introduction
On handbooks and instrumentalism
Response to “Democratic Knowledge—The Task Before Us” by Camilla Stivers
Symposium introduction
The Role of Government in Managing Intercultural Relations
When intercultural tensions flare up, governments typically must engage the conflict one way or another. This article questions the possible role of government in transforming these difficult social–cultural–political conflicts into democratic moments. Three theoretical approaches to democracy compete for status in the realm of multicultural politics: majoritarian, consociational, and deliberative democracy. The multicultural features of these th…
"Is" Ought To Mean What
The question came up again in summer 2007 when J. K. Rowl ing, author of the Harry Potter series, said that she always assumed that Professor Dumbledore is gay. Professor Dumbledore is gay? Again, it depends on what the meaning of is. The world is an enigma more so than a fact. To state that something is a is to state a truth ... unless one is stating a lie. Hard to tell right off the bat. The word does not clear things up any more than the fact …
Governmentality, Pluralism, and Deconstruction
(2008). Governmentality, Pluralism, and Deconstruction. Administrative Theory & Praxis: Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 363-368
Hugh Miller's Final Reply
Monica All the Time is one of those pieces that until now was never sent to a journal for publication. It may have needed more work, but I am not certain why it became a forgotten manuscript. In retro spect, what we were saying seems on target. The free play of signifiers was, we conceded, overpowering public policy discourse. Our hopes for strategies such as warrants for discourse were dimming, and the pros pects for the deterioration of America…
All Monica All The Time
Five years ago we wrote a book titled Postmodern Public Adminis tration (1995) which, in chapter three, outlined the postmodern condi tion. The following essay may be regarded as a revisiting of that problematic. As a generalization we are not pleased?things have got ten worse; they have not improved. Such a position is not exceptional, indeed we fear that whatever insights we bring to bear are little more profound than CNN's Sunday show: Reliabl…
Redescribing Public Administration
(2005). Redescribing Public Administration. Administrative Theory & Praxis: Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 469-485
People of the Body
Why Old Pragmatism Needs an Upgrade
Postmodern Public Policy
The Epistemic Community
Early epistemology assumed that the observer (a) was independent of and distinct from the object being observed and (b) could validate objective reality in a language system called the laws of science. The authors offer something different. In arguing that knowledge is responsive to the culture in which it is embedded, they take a perspectival approach, gathering localized intentionality, context, social practices, and linguistic meaning (called …
Policy narratives
The ontological and epistemological footing of narrative policy research remains uncertain. In this article, interpretive approaches to policy narrative research are advanced and scientism is eschewed. Other themes in the policy narrative literature that serve as points of divergence and/or convergence include: 1) The structural features of a policy narrative; 2) The semiotic nature of policy narratives; 3) Epistemological politics; 4) Emancipato…
Narrative subscription in public policy discourse
Affect and identity are often recognized as important considerations in critical policy studies. But because these notions lack materiality, it is not observably obvious how they function in policy discourse. Their function can be understood by adopting the concept of narrative subscription. This conceptualization raises the prominence of narrative, treating it as the key observable feature of a policy discourse. Narratives are made resonant, coh…
Residues of Foundationalism in Classic Pragmatism
Practical Theory
The supposed dichotomy between theory and practice is, like other dichotomies we have known, a false one. It is rooted in a paradigm in which theory is conceptualized as lawlike generalizations that cumulatively constitute an ever-growing body of knowledge. Practitioners/experts are supposedly then able to improve managerial effectiveness by applying such knowledge to practice. When public administration theory fails to produce relevant law like …
Scientism versus social constructionism in critical policy studies
What is not to like about this approach to public policy studies that we are calling a narrative policy framework? Well, the first thing I do not like is when they capitalize it, as in Narrative Po
Pragmatic, Extra-Formal Democracy
Based on trends in local political participation, we wish to develop the notion of extra-formal democracy. Extra-formal democracy-democratic practices that exist outside the formalisms of electoral processes-links citizens with one another. Citizens collaborate with, or contest one another in direct, robust ways. Representative democracy, as a passive and indirect expression of desire, is not energizing in the same way. Despite its attractions in…
Public Policy and Local Governance
(2001). Public Policy and Local Governance: Institutions in Postmodern Society. Administrative Theory & Praxis: Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 303-307
The Depreciating Public Policy Discourse
Public policy discourse has entered an era of media-driven hyperreality, becoming detached from the lived experience of the polity. Bumper-sticker political symbols, such as "the war on drugs," have displaced vibrant discussion of public issues. This depreciation of the public discourse can be apprehended if we conceptualize this problematic as a postmodern phenomenon. By borrowing vocabulary and concepts from postmodern thought, we can try to fi…
Everyday Politics in Public Administration
The politics-administration dichotomy was long ago dismissed as either a descriptive or (except for a few notable holdouts) prescriptive account of what the role of public administration should be. Yet the dichotomy endures in practice and in habit of mind, embedded in institutional traditions and in the legal code as well. Political involvement-coalition formation, symbol manipulation, constituency mobilization-by public administrators is an eve…
Weber's Action Theory and Lowi's Policy Types in Formulation, Enactment, and Implementation
Rational Discourse, Memetics, and the Autonomous Liberal-Humanist Subject
Building Social Cohesion
While material gain continues to be a leading motivator for corrupt acts, this study shows that social status and kinship responsibilities should also be considered possible precursors to corruption. This finding has important implications for constructing an appropriate understanding of corruption, designing anticorruption policies, and achieving ethical governance in developing democracies
Governmentality, Pluralism, and Deconstruction
(2008). Governmentality, Pluralism, and Deconstruction. Administrative Theory & Praxis: Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 363-368
The Ideographic Individual
The ideographic individual encapsulates the decentering tendency of recent philosophy and does so in a way that is consistent with both postmodern and evolutionary approaches to culture. This decentering of the individual elicits a confrontation with concerns about determinism and free will. This article attempts to problematize the determinism versus free will debate while proposing an alternative conceptualization of the individual grounded in …
The Irony of Privatization
What does privatization really mean? It depends on who is speaking and the specific language game in use. This article borrows an interpretive device, originally developed by Roland Barthes and further articulated by Jean Baudrillard, which lays waste to the assertion that a word has a single denotative meaning. Such an interpretation (that words represent, or correspond to, reality) is but the first step of a progressively unreal simulacrum that…
Political contestation in policy implementation
The policy literature increasingly recognizes the political dynamics in play during implementation, including participation and competition. Yet the complexity of policy contestation following enactment confounds scholars’ efforts to generalize. Predictive generalization is not the end-goal of narrative inquiry, yet it a useful approach to the study of political competition. Using the Narrative Politics model to analyze a needle exchange program …
On Legitimacy
Public administration scholarship has a long-standing tradition of examining the legitimacy of public administration. One of the motives behind this literature is the necessity to defend against constant criticisms directed toward public administration research, theory, and practice. In this article, we shift the focus from defending public administration by conceptualizing and accepting it as an illegitimate and stigmatized institution—one that …
From social constructivist epistemology to context realism
Numerous important concepts we use in policy studies lack material being, including collective will, altruism, passion, experience, and social structure. Lack of materiality has not prevented social constructivists, especially feminists and phenomenologists, from making significant intellectual contributions using such concepts. But in this article I envisage that, after the linguistic turn, we could do better by now turning to context realism as…
Narrative Competition in Public Discourse
This article illustrates narrative evolution by considering narrative data from a university classroom exercise that inflamed religious and right-wing sensibilities. Following Miller's conceptualization, narratives are presumed to compete for dominance in an environment of human communication. The viability of an evolutionary approach to narrative analysis was assessed. Alterity, heresy, gatekeeping, and association were anticipated. The practice…
The Role of Government in Managing Intercultural Relations
When intercultural tensions flare up, governments typically must engage the conflict one way or another. This article questions the possible role of government in transforming these difficult social–cultural–political conflicts into democratic moments. Three theoretical approaches to democracy compete for status in the realm of multicultural politics: majoritarian, consociational, and deliberative democracy. The multicultural features of these th…
Forum
Weber's Action Theory and Lowi's Policy Types in Formulation, Enactment, and Implementation
People of the Body
The Objectionable Utterance
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Everyday Politics in Public Administration
The politics-administration dichotomy was long ago dismissed as either a descriptive or (except for a few notable holdouts) prescriptive account of what the role of public administration should be. Yet the dichotomy endures in practice and in habit of mind, embedded in institutional traditions and in the legal code as well. Political involvement-coalition formation, symbol manipulation, constituency mobilization-by public administrators is an eve…
Post-Progressive Public Administration
Traditional-Progressive Model: Supply-Side Public Administration Critiques of closed-system organizations and Weberian, Wilsonian, and Tayloristic management practices have long flourished the literature. In practice, however, it has been the Weberian, Wilsonian, and Tayloristic practices that have flourished, and continue to do so despite the intellectual battering they have taken. Waldo (1984) wrote of the perdurability of the politics-administ…
Postmodernism and Public Administration's Identity Crisis
The Depreciating Public Policy Discourse
Public policy discourse has entered an era of media-driven hyperreality, becoming detached from the lived experience of the polity. Bumper-sticker political symbols, such as "the war on drugs," have displaced vibrant discussion of public issues. This depreciation of the public discourse can be apprehended if we conceptualize this problematic as a postmodern phenomenon. By borrowing vocabulary and concepts from postmodern thought, we can try to fi…
Practical Theory
The supposed dichotomy between theory and practice is, like other dichotomies we have known, a false one. It is rooted in a paradigm in which theory is conceptualized as lawlike generalizations that cumulatively constitute an ever-growing body of knowledge. Practitioners/experts are supposedly then able to improve managerial effectiveness by applying such knowledge to practice. When public administration theory fails to produce relevant law like …
Method
Kenneth Hansen’s methodological disciplining of Fox and Miller’s warrants for discourse is a worthy aspiration, but at what point do we hand over too much to method? This implicit and sometimes explicit expectation—that method will yield an objective perspective on any public policy discourse—will not be realized. The understandable desire to overcome observer bias will be forever unfulfilled in the social sciences. Biases, backgrounds, socializa…
The Irony of Privatization
What does privatization really mean? It depends on who is speaking and the specific language game in use. This article borrows an interpretive device, originally developed by Roland Barthes and further articulated by Jean Baudrillard, which lays waste to the assertion that a word has a single denotative meaning. Such an interpretation (that words represent, or correspond to, reality) is but the first step of a progressively unreal simulacrum that…
Sociology
Citizen Governance” As Image Management in Postmodern Context
In recent years, the level of skepticism by the public towards government coupled with the emergence of “citizen governance” literature in the discipline of public administration has led administrators to step into an area wrought with legitimacy questions. “Citizen governance” is seen mainly as an administrative strategy or style, perhaps useful in the present historical moment, that may be brought to bear in the face of the negative image of go…
Rational Discourse, Memetics, and the Autonomous Liberal-Humanist Subject
Public Policy and Local Governance
(2001). Public Policy and Local Governance: Institutions in Postmodern Society. Administrative Theory & Praxis: Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 303-307
The Epistemic Community
Early epistemology assumed that the observer (a) was independent of and distinct from the object being observed and (b) could validate objective reality in a language system called the laws of science. The authors offer something different. In arguing that knowledge is responsive to the culture in which it is embedded, they take a perspectival approach, gathering localized intentionality, context, social practices, and linguistic meaning (called …
Pragmatic, Extra-Formal Democracy
Based on trends in local political participation, we wish to develop the notion of extra-formal democracy. Extra-formal democracy-democratic practices that exist outside the formalisms of electoral processes-links citizens with one another. Citizens collaborate with, or contest one another in direct, robust ways. Representative democracy, as a passive and indirect expression of desire, is not energizing in the same way. Despite its attractions in…
Forum
Doubting Foundationalism
Postmodern Public Policy
The Ideographic Individual
The ideographic individual encapsulates the decentering tendency of recent philosophy and does so in a way that is consistent with both postmodern and evolutionary approaches to culture. This decentering of the individual elicits a confrontation with concerns about determinism and free will. This article attempts to problematize the determinism versus free will debate while proposing an alternative conceptualization of the individual grounded in …
Why Old Pragmatism Needs an Upgrade
Postmodern Politics Ain’t Beanbag
Hugh Miller's Final Reply
Monica All the Time is one of those pieces that until now was never sent to a journal for publication. It may have needed more work, but I am not certain why it became a forgotten manuscript. In retro spect, what we were saying seems on target. The free play of signifiers was, we conceded, overpowering public policy discourse. Our hopes for strategies such as warrants for discourse were dimming, and the pros pects for the deterioration of America…
All Monica All The Time
Five years ago we wrote a book titled Postmodern Public Adminis tration (1995) which, in chapter three, outlined the postmodern condi tion. The following essay may be regarded as a revisiting of that problematic. As a generalization we are not pleased?things have got ten worse; they have not improved. Such a position is not exceptional, indeed we fear that whatever insights we bring to bear are little more profound than CNN's Sunday show: Reliabl…
Redescribing Public Administration
(2005). Redescribing Public Administration. Administrative Theory & Praxis: Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 469-485
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