HECOL300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: New Public Management, Boondoggle, Shared Resource

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Human Ecology
• Course: HECOL300
• Professor: Tania Kajner

Document Summary

Globalization, neoliberalism, human rights/legislation, politics of difference (intersectionality), new public management (npm) Npm the movement from bureaucratic to post-bureaucratic : governance context within which the government operates(how) vs. Government (what) : positioned within neoliberal discourse/ideas, spread from uk/us into canada, focuses on business principles of management. Decentralization: disapprove of bureaucratic model because it is monopolistic, argue that post-bureaucratic model is more citizen-centred and participatory. This model is outcome-oriented: doesn"t matter how you get there so long as you get there, encourage competition. Idea of fairness recovery cost >>> cost recovery basis: those who use particular services should pay for them, before used to be: shared resource (whether personally used or not) = shared cost. Devolution and provincial transfer, grants and contributions boondoggle , management accountability framework (ethics & accountability -informal and complex. !1 rules-, public sector renewed) *note: rules and regulations creeping back in not that different from bureaucracy*