%0 Journal Article %T Modernism, postmodernism and public administration %A Murat Y£¿ld£¿r£¿m %J International Journal of Human Sciences %D 2010 %I International Journal of Human Sciences %X 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. %K Modernism %K Postmodernism %K Bureaucracy %K Post-Bureaucratic Organisations %U http://www.insanbilimleri.com/ojs/index.php/uib/article/view/803