Subject(s): Constructivism (Philosophy) -- Critical theory. -- Discourse analysis. -- Representative democratic accountability feedback loop : Orthodoxy, loop model of democracy, quixotic mainstream reforms, positivism in public administration, problem in practice, self referential systems, deconstructing loop model, representation -- Alternatives to orthodoxy : Neoliberalism, privatization, constitutional alternatives Rohr's thesis, critique of constitutionalism, communitarianism - Bedrock view -- Hyperreality : Instability and incommensurability, unstable signs leading to virtual reality, stable communication/Epiphenomenalism, incommensurability, symbolic politics, neoliberalism as free market sloganeering, constitutionalism, sovereign -- Social construction of government : Constructivist social theory, structuration theory, using constructivism to deconstruct the conflated aggregation bureaucracy, governmentality, governmental rationality, subjectification -- Ideographic discourse : Symbols as ordering devices, ideography, relief form dissonance, ideographic events -- Orthodoxy and its alternatives, media-infused hyperreality, field of political contestation