What is Wrong with the New Public Management?

Abstract

The new public management philosophy holds obvious appeal. It promises to provide the “Big Answer” to real and imagined shortcomings in public bureaucracy. How else does one explain such telling titles as “Reinventing Government” and “Getting Government Right”?

Citation

Savoie, D.J. (2006), "What is Wrong with the New Public Management?", 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. 593-602. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0732-1317(06)15025-3