The New Public Management as an International Phenomenon: A Skeptical View

Abstract

Bureaucracy, the structural form of the modern administrative state, is, by any credible theory of social development, endogenous to social and political transformation. Bureaucracy is not imposed, not exogenous. It is created by polities; it solves problems.

Citation

Lynn, L.E. (2006), "The New Public Management as an International Phenomenon: A Skeptical View", Otenyo, E.E. and Lind, N.S. (Ed.) Comparative Public Administration (Research in Public Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 15), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 573-591. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0732-1317(06)15024-1