PAP 2300 Lecture Notes - Centralized Government, New Public Management, Neoliberalism

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8 Apr 2012

School

University of Ottawa

Department

Public Administration

Course

PAP 2300

Professor

Frank Ohemeng

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Theories that have influenced the changes or reforms of public administration. The new public management as a reform tool. The administrative state was charged with crimes, such as failure to perform, abuse of power, and repression of employees, clients and people in general. The emergence and influence of conservative thinking, especially in great. A fundamental assumption of neo-liberalism is a minimalist role for the public sector while enhancing the role of the private sector. The emergence of conservative politicians in most countries in the western world (especially with the west-minister model of government) in turn stimulated the growth of neo-liberalism in restraining and changing the state in the late 1970s. The policies that were implemented to restrain and change the state have been described by prof. According to hood, new public management, like most administrative levels, is a loose term.

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