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Article: Information, Parliament, and the "New Public Management".
- Article from:
- Canadian Parliamentary Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 1996
- Author:
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Advocates of the new public management reforms to governance suggest that performance measures and business plans will help improve both the efficiency of the government and the ability of legislators to scrutinize the public service. While supportive of the main tenents of the new public management, this article suggests that these reforms will not be sufficient and that additional, more basic information must be made available.
I want to address the question of whether the reforms recommended by advocates of the New Public Management movement for monitoring and evaluating the performance of the public service will better prepare legislators to scrutinize the ...