Preface PART ONE: Critique 1. A New Approach to Democratic Governance The Argument 2. Orthodoxy and Its Alternatives I. The Loop Model of Democracy II. Quixotic Mainstream Reforms III. The Institutionalist/Constitutionalist Alternative IV. Communitarian/Citizen Alternative V. The Need for Discourse Theory 3.

The Growing Gap Between Words and Deeds: Postmodern Symbolic Politics I. Modern/Postmodern II. Unstable Signs Leading to a Virtual Reality III. Neotribalism and the Decentered Self IV. Postmodern Conditions: Orthodoxy, Constitutionalism, and Communitarianism PART TWO: Discourse Theory 4. Theoretical Underpinnings of Discourse Theory: Phenomenology, Constructivism, Structuration Theory, and Energy Fields I. Theoretical Base II. Using Constructivism to Deconstruct the "Conflated Aggregation" Bureaucracy III.

The Public Sphere as Energy Field 5. Warrants for Discourse I. Policy as the Struggle for Meaning Capture II. Authenticity, Ideal Speech, Agonistic Tension III. Revocable Warrants for Discourse IV. Applications of Discourse 6. Nascent Forms of Discourse.