PAP 1301 Lecture Notes - New Public Management, Public Administration, Mania

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Public Administration
• Course: PAP 1301
• Professor: Jon Houseman

Document Summary

All though it took off in the 70s you can see transition to npm in the 60s. A lot of the arguments made against bureaucracy revolves around being lazy, unresponsive. Canada has a stronger history of government intervention. Distinguish between public sector managers and politicians. Bureaucracy was way to involved into making policies. Their jobs were to focus on service delivery. Programs do have to see what being accomplish is being accomplished. When it begins to become unreasonable is when it involves number. Outcome isn"t completely about bad measurements, it"s just when it"s about number. Public and private sectors are different in orientation. Canadian deficit doesn"t mean country isn"t being well run. In the 90s there were a mania about applying a business model to the public sector. There not saying tax payers wallets are unlimited, there are limits to public funding. Critics see that public sector has different core values than the private sector.