Toward a New Era of Administrative Reform? The Myth of Post-NPM in New Zealand

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Lodge, Martin; Gill, Derek
• 署名单位: University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Victoria University Wellington
• 刊物名称: GOVERNANCE-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLICY ADMINISTRATION AND INSTITUTIONS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0952-1895
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0491.2010.01508.x
• 发表日期: 2011
• 关键词: PERFORMANCE-MEASUREMENT; ministerial advisers; PUBLIC MANAGEMENT; POLICY; ACCOUNTABILITY

摘要

This article explores the supposed shift from New Public Management (NPM) to a new era of post-NPM by looking at one critical case, New Zealand. It finds limited evidence of such a shift, suggesting that the wider literature needs to move to a more careful methodological treatment of empirical patterns. To contribute to such a move, this article applies a three-pronged approach to the study of changing doctrines in executive government. After setting out the broad contours of what NPM and post-NPM supposedly constitute, the article proceeds to a documentary analysis of State Services Commission doctrines; this is followed by an analysis of Public Service Bargains based on elite interviews and finally a case-study approach of the Crown Entities Act 2004. Far from a new era of administrative reform, the messy patterns that emerge suggest a continuation of traditional understandings and ad hoc and politically driven adjustments, leading to diversification.