Article: New public management is dead--long live digital-era governance.

Defining periods in the evolution of any complex system, such as public management systems in advanced industrial countries, is a tricky task. New developments accrete and accumulate while older trends are still playing out and apparently flourishing. Relatively established ideas move from leading-edge countries or sectors to implementation in previously laggard areas, even as the same ideas are being repudiated or reversed in the erstwhile pioneering locations. And a confusing welter of changes goes on simultaneously, among which it is difficult to distinguish ephemeral and hyped-up innovations from those that are fundamental and longer lasting (Lynn 2000).

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