The New Public Management

Michael Barzelay

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2001
• eBook ISBN:
  9780520925274
• Print ISBN:
  9780520224438
• Edition: 1

How policymakers should guide, manage, and oversee public bureaucracies is a question that lies at the heart of contemporary debates about government and public administration. In their search for better systems of public management, reformers have looked in particular at the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. These countries are exemplars of the New Public Management, a term used to describe distinctive new themes, styles, and patterns of public service management. Calling for public management to become a vibrant field of public policy, this valuable book consolidates recent work on the New Public Management and provides a basis for improving research and policy debate on managing public bureaucracies. A copublication with the Russell Sage Foundation

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures and Boxes
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Studying the New Public Management
• 2. Case Studies on Public Management Policy-Making
• 3. Comparative Analysis of Public Management Policy-Making
• 4. How to Argue about the New Public Management
• 5. Controversy and Cumulation in NPM Argumentation
• 6. Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• Subject Index
• Name Index