The state of public management

Thompson, Fred

doi:10.1002/(sici)1520-6688(199722)16:3<484::aid-pam8>3.0.co;2-d

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“…At least as far back as 1991 when Christopher Hood published his seminal article "A Public Management for All Seasons?" NPM has been debated at professional conferences and in the scholarly literature (Jones, 2002;Jones, Schedler, & Wade, 1997;Kettl, 1997;Terry, 1998b;Thompson, 1997). Scholars have debated the origins and theoretical foundation of NPM (Gruening, 2001), questioned whether NPM represents a separate and distinct field of public-management inquiry (Barzelay, 1999;Lynn, 1998;Mathiasen, 1999), and pondered whether NPM is a passing fad (Jones, 2002;Lynn, 1998).…”

Section: The Npm and The Restructuring Of Governancementioning

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The Thinning of Administrative Institutions in the Hollow State

Terry

2005

Administration & Society

105

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During the past 20 years or so, governments worldwide have embarked on an ambitious journey to improve government performance. Relying on a multitude of administrative technologies broadly classified under the heading of the New Public Management (NPM), reformers have sought to radically change the manner in which the public's business is conducted. Although the verdict is still out, evidence is accumulating that NPM philosophy and practices may have produced unintended consequences. The author argues that in addition to contributing to an increasingly hollow state, NPM philosophy and practices have contributed to a phenomenon described as the thinning of administrative institutions. Thin institutions are weak; they lack the capacity for good administration—a requirement for maintaining the American people's confidence in government.

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Section: The Npm and The Restructuring Of Governancementioning

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The Thinning of Administrative Institutions in the Hollow State

Terry

2005

Administration & Society

105

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“…2 For more on new public management or introducing market mechanisms in the public sector, see Barzelay (1992) or Thompson (1997).…”

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Running business like a government in the new economy: lessons for organizational design and corporate governance

Michael¹,

Gross

2004

Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society

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Principal-agent problems are largely responsible for poor corporate governance. Much work on private sector corporate governance reform seeks to address transparency, accountability and responsiveness to stakeholder interests under the new category of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Yet, these issues are not new. The public sector has been working on these issues for many years ± especially in looking at ways of reducing malfeasance and also optimizing use of resources for the bene®t of principals. Some lessons from public sector reform include promoting information dissemination, participation, and balancing powers between a corporation's executive and supervisory entities. While ®rms should not necessarily be administered like governmental bodies, there are many lessons from public sector organizational reform and institutional governance that may be applicable to large-scale public corporations.

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Useful to whom? Public management research, social science, and the standpoint problem

Frant

1999

International Public Management Journal

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The state of public management

Cited by 8 publications

References 6 publications

The Thinning of Administrative Institutions in the Hollow State

The Thinning of Administrative Institutions in the Hollow State

Running business like a government in the new economy: lessons for organizational design and corporate governance

Useful to whom? Public management research, social science, and the standpoint problem

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