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New Public Management Assessment

New Public Management (NPM) assessment evaluates how far a public organisation or system has adopted the cluster of managerial reform doctrines that swept the public sector from the 1980s — and with what effects. Christopher Hood's 1991 article A Public Management for All Seasons? gave NPM its name and identified its core doctrines: hands-on professional management, explicit performance standards, output controls, disaggregation into units, competition, private-sector management styles, and discipline in resource use. The assessment scores adoption of these doctrines, evaluates their effects, and appraises the trade-offs against enduring public-service values such as equity and accountability.

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New Public Management Assessment of Public-Sector Reform
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / public-administration
  • Hood, C. (1991). A Public Management for All Seasons? Public Administration, 69(1), 3–19. · DOI 10.1111/j.1467-9299.1991.tb00779.x
  • OECD. Public-sector reform, performance and public-governance resources. OECD, Paris. · URL
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