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Article: The middle aging of New Public Management: into the age of paradox?(Articles)
- Article from:
- Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
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THE MIDDLE AGING OF NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT
A bureaucratic Rip van Winkle who awoke in the new century after twenty years of slumber might be surprised by the scale of the international "New Public Management" (NPM) industry that had grown up to chronicle, interpret, and assess the wave of efforts to reform executive government across the world over the past two decades. Scanning the groaning bookshelves and burgeoning Web sites containing the products of the NPM industry, the awoken slumberer might at first be dazed by the variety of themes, approaches, and terminology produced by an eclectic mix of consultants, conventional scholars, staff of international ...