PAP 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Barry Goldwater, Air Canada, Sponsorship Scandal
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Revisiting npm: 70s and 80s, thatcher"s reforms, reagan"s ideas, critics of bureaucracies make advances by making strong arguments for npm, turn against bureacracy (1964 barry goldwater election, thatcher. Run government like business, focus on outcomes that can be measured. Distinguish roles of managers and politicians because of emphasis on i. i. service delivery. By defining thatcher established that politicians were there to. 1. make policy and managers are there to implement in. More innovative bureaucracies by implementing horizontal forms of i. management, so there is more participation and decisions more flexible. Critics of npm: public sector can"t adopt private sector mentalities. 1. obligations it has to fill, private sector doesn"t (critics agree on this) public means citizens and citizens have rights so sector has a. Canada post, air canada (all citizens have the right to travel) Even crown corporations, they fill a public funciton ex.