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Post-modern public administration is referring to the inner workings of nearly every government entity in existence. Whether it is the congress men and women in Washington D.C. or the Department of Public Safety representatives located at any DPS office handling the paper work of applicants wanted to obtain a drivers license. The idea of public administration is broad enough to encompass all government positions that affect the public. Members of public administration come in different forms and quantities. When understanding the theory of postmodern public administration, it is important to make a differentiation between postmodern theory and the postmodern era as well as being able to differentiate between post-modernity (period of time) and postmodernism (theory/philosophy).

Postmodern theory evolves out of the postmodern era. Chuck Fox and Hugh Miller are two of the main contributors to postmodern theory because they were able to recognize the postmodern condition and how it was playing out in public administration administration and public policy. This theory began in the 1990s, even though this theory had been around in other disciplines for a while. An estimation of time could date back to Plato and his ideas of a public and communal government where there are policy making actions and steps through levels of democracy. This theory has since been revisited and changed through three intellectual movements, interrogating the loop model of democracy, which many have argued that it is largely a myth, showing the symbolic nature of policy and politics in the United States, and discourse theory. One of the downsides of this theory is that it is based on the slippery slope of relativism. This theory also provides people with the tools to rebuild our infrastructures of symbolic and social order. This theory addresses big questions of what is right and wrong and tries to address the issue to find antidotes for anomie and relativity. 

The founding father of postmodern public administration is commonly referred to as Woodrow Wilson, while many can find his roots of inspiration from the works of Friedrich Nietzsche. Using Woodrow Wilson as a reference point, it an be shown that in his essay The Study of Administration, is it “traditionally accepted that with his study, Wilson applied positivist principles to public administration…based on the belief that social reality would be objectively known with the separation of positivist traditional values from facts.” (Traces of Postmodernism in the New Public Management Paradigm, Kerim Ozcan-Veysel Agca). 

Positivism is a theory in philosophy saying that positive knowledge is a naturally occurring thing and that such experiences, through sensory or in person interactions, give a strong source to authoritative knowledge.

Introduction:

-How this article will be written.

-The reasons we are going to add or cut out pieces of what is on the Public     Administration page.

-Brief explanation of what Public administration is (more like a thesis statement)

Second paragraph:

-Go in depth about the history and background of Post-public Administration.

-Talk about how it was founded; include founding fathers/mothers, as well as cited sources.

Third paragraph:

-Explain the importance of public administration and how it incorporates itself into the government processes/is the government project.

-What kinds of job opportunities are available in the field of public administration?

-Include references linking the jobs to public administration, as well as supporting evidence about how it is government processes.

Fourth paragraph:

-Cover different organizations in US history that were specifically related to government processes.

- U.S. Civil Service Commission (1883)

-Office of Personnel Management (after 1978)

-The Merit Systems Protection Board (after 1978. Also worked with OPM)