POLS 2250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Community Policing, E-Government, Marketization

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 2250
• Professor: Tim Mau

Document Summary

Pols 2250 week 6 the new public management. New": originated as a product of the neo-conservative agenda of margaret thatcher in. Global reform movement scandinavian countries, new zealand, australia, canada, us the uk (1979) 4 key factors driving npm: economic crisis & need to reduce government spending, lack of confidence in politicians and public demand for better and more cost- effective service delivery, globalization, political/ideological. Managerialism focus on bottom line" & provision of quality services: private sector management practices adopted for the public sector. Criticisms of bureaucracy: post-bureaucratic paradigm (barzelay breaking through bureaucracy, new public organization (kernaghan, marson & borins the new public. Organization: entrepreneurial government (osborne & gaebler reinventing government) Shrink size of government; reduce costs; improve performance. Most extreme adoption of npm: revolution in public administration. Notable because nz traditionally at the forefront of extending basic rights and government programs: first to grant franchise to women in 1893, first cradle-to-grave welfare system in 1935.