Whatever Happened to New Public Management?

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dc.contributor.author	Greve, Crasten
dc.date.accessioned	2012-10-21
dc.date.accessioned	2012-10-24T11:45:06Z
dc.date.available	2012-10-24T11:45:06Z
dc.date.issued	2012-10-24
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8548
dc.description.abstract	This paper aims to take stock of the concept of New Public Management (NPM) to see what has happened with the concept, and to consider recent concepts and ideas that challenge NPM. The reason is that there is still much talk about NPM, although many now seem to think that we have gone “beyond” NPM or are in a “post-NPM” public management situation. The second part of the paper will deal with self-styled conceptual alternatives to NPM. These began to appear in the last decade. With “self-styled” I mean that they explicitly present themselves as alternatives to NPM and address the shortcomings in NPM to promote other conceptualizations. Combined, these alternatives approach a coherent research agenda. To be able to discuss these matters, the argument is presented through a theoretical approach that views public management reform as institutional change. This approach is now common in public management reform studies (Pollitt & Bouckaert 2004; Christensen & Lægreid, 2001, 2007, 2011), Knill (1999) and Barzelay (2001) and colleagues (Barzelay & Gallego 2010). The analytical framework comes from theories of public policymaking and theories of historical institutionalism in political science.	en_US
dc.format.extent	20	en_US
dc.language	eng	en_US
dc.title	Whatever Happened to New Public Management?	en_US
dc.type	cp	en_US
dc.accessionstatus	modt12okt24 lbjl	en_US
dc.contributor.corporation	Copenhagen Business School. CBS	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Department of Business and Politics	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentshort	DBP	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentuk	Department of Business and Politics	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentukshort	DBP	en_US
dc.description.notes	This paper was written as a part of the SONIC (Sources of National Institutional Competiveness) research project at Copenhagen Business School’s International Center for Business and Politics To be presented at the Danish Political Science Association meeting 4-5 November 2010, Panel on “New Public Management”	en_US
dc.publisher.city	Frederiksberg	en_US
dc.publisher.year	2010	en_US