PAP 2320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Entrust, Kpmg, Pricewaterhousecoopers

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Public Administration
• Course: PAP 2320
• Professor: Joshua Zaato

Document Summary

Lecture 9 (feb 4th): re-examining npm advocates and critics. The advent of the npm has set off a lively debate in the academic community that studies pa. This debate has advocates and opponents on both sides. According to advocates, the npm is not a simplistic big answer to all bureaucratic pathologies and woes (borins, 1995) Rather , it is a normative reconceptualization of pa consisting of several inter-related components: providing high quality service that citizens value. Increasing the autonomy of public managers from a strict central agency controls: measuring and rewarding organizations and individuals on the basis of results 3es, appreciative of the virtues of competition (borins, 1995) Large and expensive public sectors were created during earlier periods of strong economic growth: maintaining them in a new environment of recession and fierce global competition has lead to massive public debt loads.