Fairness and Freedom: A History of Two Open Societies, New Zealand and the United States, by David Hackett Fischer

Sharp, Andrew

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“…Owing to the simplified nature of our codebook it might not have been sufficiently representative of the overlaps between different philosophies, with fairness being a case in which artificial distinctions may be contested. Alternatively, this may be explained by the national societal context, in which fairness has been described as the dominant value in New Zealand society (Fischer, 2012).…”

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Administrative philosophies in the discourse and decisions of the New Zealand public service: is post-New Public Management still a myth?

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Donadelli

Merton³

2022

International Review of Administrative Sciences

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New Zealand is frequently cited as the archetypical example of New Public Management (NPM), having gone ‘further and faster’ than other jurisdictions in radically reforming their public service in the late 1980s. These reforms have been credited with significant gains in efficiency and responsiveness, while introducing new challenges. Successive reforms over the past 30 years tinkered with the model without fundamentally altering the underlying paradigm, such that authors refer to the ‘myth of post-NPM in New Zealand’. In 2020, New Zealand repealed and replaced its main public service legislation. By textually analysing government documents, this article explores the different theoretical roots of New Zealand's ongoing administrative reforms and debates the extent of their theoretical coherence. The Act directly dialogues with and draws inspiration from recent academic debates, drawing from a range of sources (such as New Public Governance, Digital Era Governance, and the New Public Service). Points for practitioners New Zealand has long been regarded as the purest example of New Public Management (NPM). Legislation passed in 2020 saw New Zealand adopt a range of reforms described in the literature as ‘post-NPM’, while also reaffirming features associated with Traditional Public Administration (TPA). While New Zealand has moved away from a pure NPM model and adopted features associated with Post-NPM, Post-NPM is not a coherent doctrine and it may only be possible to identify administrative doctrines retrospectively. We may be entering a period of ‘New Public Complexity’, where administrative doctrines are blended and layered.

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Administrative philosophies in the discourse and decisions of the New Zealand public service: is post-New Public Management still a myth?

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Donadelli

Merton³

2022

International Review of Administrative Sciences

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“…For example, in the 1980s, politician Robert Muldoon proposed a welfare programme that promised 80 per cent of the median wage for every New Zealander over 59, 'a fair go for the ordinary bloke' (fairness as equality). 23 Opposing politician, Roger Douglas, said Muldoon's policy would make the country broke (and it did), and instead proposed that pensions should be private and public spending supplement it where necessary (fairness as proportionality). 24 David Fischer identifies fairness as an important value of the British settlers in the early 1800s, many of whom felt they were victims of social injustice, inequity, and deep unfairness in Britain.…”

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Overcoming Tall Poppy Syndrome in New Zealand Using Moral Foundations Theory and Christian Humility

Webb

2023

Studies in Christian Ethics

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New Zealand has an unspoken commandment: ‘thou shalt not be a tall poppy’. A tall poppy is someone who stands out from the crowd, usually by excelling at one or more pursuits. Sadly, many New Zealanders are all too familiar with this phrase as they have been ‘cut down’ by those around them, taunted for their success and discouraged from celebrating their achievements. This social phenomenon of cutting down tall poppies is called Tall Poppy Syndrome and is present in many areas of New Zealand culture, such as sport, academic achievement, and entrepreneurship. Consequently, the church is not immune to this phenomenon. Tall Poppy Syndrome, whether within or outside the church, discourages excellence and prevents flourishing. This article engages Moral Foundations Theory to understand why Tall Poppy Syndrome exists in New Zealand, and then proposes Christian humility as a remedy for Tall Poppy Syndrome within the church. When humility and excellence can co-exist, then Tall Poppy Syndrome will no longer exist; thus the church could have an important role in enabling New Zealand to be a place where tall poppies can freely flourish.

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“…These debates brought to light tensions of power/knowledge relations in discourses of politics, and the priorities of nationalistic sentiments couched within the Australian education system, on the international stage (Carey & Pruyn, 2015). International scholarship (see for example, Fisher, 2012;Hargraves, 1996;Zajda, 2015) highlights that history curriculum, as a technique of power/knowledge relations for nation building purposes is not a new area of critique. While it is beyond the scope of this paper to explore the functions of this in depth, understanding subjectivities of nation building narratives within curriculum, particularly in Countries where one foreign force has risen to a dominant position, demonstrates the pervasiveness of Eurocentric techniques of nationalism couched within power/knowledge relations.…”

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Surveying the landscape five years on: An examination of how teachers, and the teaching of Australia's shared-history, is constructed within Australian academic literature

Weuffen

2019

Teaching and Teacher Education

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Fairness and Freedom: A History of Two Open Societies, New Zealand and the United States, by David Hackett Fischer

Cited by 6 publications

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Administrative philosophies in the discourse and decisions of the New Zealand public service: is post-New Public Management still a myth?

Administrative philosophies in the discourse and decisions of the New Zealand public service: is post-New Public Management still a myth?

Overcoming Tall Poppy Syndrome in New Zealand Using Moral Foundations Theory and Christian Humility

Surveying the landscape five years on: An examination of how teachers, and the teaching of Australia's shared-history, is constructed within Australian academic literature

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