Case Analysis of the Introduction of New Public Management in Small States By: Tamara McLeod ID #: 03-048181 Identify the main public sector reform issues and problems in the case Public sector reform refers to strengthening the way public sector is managed. The public sector may try and do too much with two little resources. In the case the main public sector reform issues highlighted were: • Political Issues‚ such as the political will of government representative‚ the Westminster/Whitehall
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As a relationship‚ it involves a person or body in a position of authority assigning or negotiating with others the performance of certain responsibilities‚ ideally based on agreed-upon expectations and standards. -Paul G. Thomas To the Public‚ accountability is… A general subjective sense of responsibility‚ the upholding of professional values and standards even in the absence of external scrutiny‚ a demonstrated responsiveness to particular clients or to the community at large‚ and
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Kulynych. “New Public Management” The most striking international trend in public management is rising of NPM (New Public Management). NPM’s rise seems to be linked with four other administrative “megatrends”: attempts of reverse government growth in terms of overt public spending‚ shift towards privatization and away from core government institutions‚ development of automation‚ particularly in IT and development of a more international agenda‚ increasingly focused on general issues of public administration
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Primary Sources Progressivism and Liberalism Woodrow Wilson on Administration July 1887 introduction This largely dry essay on public administration‚ published by Woodrow Wilson during the time he taught at Bryn Mawr College‚ makes a revolutionary argument for a professional centralized administration in the United States. Introducing a novel distinction between politics and administration‚ Wilson demands a bureaucracy that would govern independently from the elected branches of government
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Clemence: I think public administration is a science because it involves the study of government decision making and policies‚ which can help to produce more policies. Science is also defined as the study of something or the pursuit of knowledge on public administration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_administration has more details on public administration. Public administration is not a science or an art. Public administration is known as a "craft" for many reasons. It is not science because
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Volume 7 – No. 1 © OECD 2007 Improving Public Sector Efficiency: Challenges and Opportunities by Teresa Curristine‚ Zsuzsanna Lonti and Isabelle Joumard* This article examines key institutional drivers that may contribute to improving public sector efficiency and focuses on one of them in more detail: performance information and its role and use in the budget process (“performance budgeting”). * Teresa Curristine is a Policy Analyst in the Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate
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Introduction Public sector management‚ was introduced in the UK during the era of Margaret Thatcher and in the US during President Ronald Regan’s term of office (1970s and 1980s). This transformation in the management of the public sector was adopted by many countries as a strategy for government as a means to solve problems that was existing in the delivery of public goods and services. The rigid‚ hierarchical‚ bureaucratize form of public administration was changed to a flexible
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on new public management (NPM) sponsored by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation International Academy for Leadership (IAF) ended last April 30‚ 2006‚ the 25 participants from 13 developing countries were pretty much convinced that NPM is probably what their respective governments need. Having exhaustively discussed and analyzed NPM principles during the seminar‚ and after listening to local government officials in Germany who extolled the merits of NPM and the short-comings of traditional public administration
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The revered pioneer of political economics‚ Adam Smith (1804: 178)‚ defines the difference between the public and private sector as follows; ‘Erecting and maintaining those public institutions and those public works‚ which though they may be in the highest degree advantageous to a great society‚ are of such a nature‚ that the profits could never repay their expenses to any individual or small number of individuals and which it cannot be expected‚ therefore‚ that any individual or small number
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Public sector reform in Lesotho: Challenges‚ achievements and the way forward ABSTRACT THE GOVERNMENT OF LESOTHO EMBARKED UPON A LARGE-SCALE PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM EXERCISE FROM THE EARLY 1990S (PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM AND IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMME-PSRIP). IT WAS DRIVEN BY THE REALISATION THAT THE PUBLIC SECTOR WAS BLOATED‚ INEFFICIENT WITH REGARD TO POOR SERVICE DELIVERY‚ WITH CORRUPTION CONSTITUTING A DRAIN ON BUDGET. THE INFLUENCE AND ‘PERSUASION’ OF THE WORLD BANK‚ THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
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