POLS 2250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: New Public Management, Donald J. Savoie, National Partnership For Reinventing Government
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What is wrong with the new public management? - donald savoie. What is the new public management? it promises to provide the big answer" to real and imagined shortcomings in public bureaucracy. The philosophy is rooted in the conviction that private sector management is superior to public administration. The solution is to transfer government activities to the private sector through privatization and contracting out. Public management is different from public administration. The very word management" implies a decisiveness, a dynamic mindset and a bias for action. Argues that npm is basically flawed changes proposed by the new public management movement have been strong on prescriptions but weak on diagnosis: try new solutions before we actually figure out the real problem. Clients can turn the market to defend their interests or walk away from an unsatisfactory firm and turn to one of its competitors.