Change in Public Administration: The Relationship Between Digital Age Governance and Postmodernism

Abstract

Postmodernism started to show its effect in the social, economic, political and administrative fields after the 1970s. Especially, demonstrated the need for change in the managerial field by bringing a postmodern understanding of Public Administration to the face of the modern understanding of Public Administration. Postmodern Public Administration increased its dominance in the 1980s as a result of the introduction of an understanding of public business in front of an understanding of public service. But with the 1990s, the increase in the idea that the understanding of the operator is not enough has led to the process of evolving management into governance. By 2000, the awareness of the effectiveness of knowledge and technology on a social basis led to a new radical change. The structuring of Digital Age Governance, the foundations of which were laid out by Dunleavy et al. in 2005, opened the door to a radical change in postmodern public administration. In this direction, it is considered that there are indirect and direct relations between Digital Age Governance and postmodernism. Based on this idea, in this study, it is aimed to determine the relationship between Digital Age Governance and postmodernism as a result of evaluating similarities and differences.
 
 JEL Classification Codes: D73, N40, O38