The New Public Management

How policymakers should guide, manage, and oversee public bureaucracies is a question that lies at the heart of contemporary debates about government and public administration. In their search for better systems of public management, reformers have looked in particular at the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. These countries are exemplars of the New Public Management, a term used to describe distinctive new themes, styles, and patterns of public service management. Calling for public management to become a vibrant field of public policy, this valuable book consolidates recent work on the New Public Management and provides a basis for improving research and policy debate on managing public bureaucracies. A copublication with the Russell Sage Foundation

ISBN 0520224434   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780520224438 (What's this?)   Co_publisher Russell Sage Foundation Publisher The University Press Group Ltd   Weight (grammes) 485 Imprint University of California Press   Published in CA Format Hardback   Series ISSN 3 Publication date 15 Feb 2001   Series title Wildavsky Forum Series Non-book description book   Height (mm) 219 Library of Congress 00-055168   Width (mm) 146 DEWEY 351   Spine width (mm) 22 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level Professional / Scholarly Pages 238

		List of Figures and Boxes
		Preface
		Acknowledgments
1		Studying the New Public Management		1
2		Case Studies on Public Management Policy-Making		14
3		Comparative Analysis of Public Management Policy-Making		51
4		How to Argue about the New Public Management		99
5		Controversy and Cumulation in NPM Argumentation		134
6		Conclusion		156
		Notes		173
		References		191
		Subject Index		205
		Name Index		215

"Barzelay provides a convincing and coherent interdisciplinary framework for public sector management policy, which helps bridge the practiotioner-academic divide. Public officials involved in reform policy will benefit from this book." - Alex Matheson, Public Management Service, OECD, Paris "Much of what passes for analysis of New Public Management, both among advocates and detractors, is biased and superficial. Michael Barzelay has made a serious attempt to move the debate forward by identifying standards for reasoning about public management, and this book deserves to be read carefully by students and teachers of the subject." - Christopher Hood, Gladstone Professor of Government, Oxford University "The is a smart, challenging, and important book. It provides us with a framework for studying public management, demonstrating that it is indeed a field of policy analysis like environmental policy or foreign policy....Barzelay outlines the rules that should govern serious multidisciplinary discourse in the field, thereby laying the foundation for a truly international research community." - Fred Thompson, Editor, International Public Management Journal "Barzelay is a pioneer in the kind of administrative reform that empowers civil servants while making them more accountable to the societies they serve. His new book...is a much needed intellectual contribution to a field where interdisciplinary thinking is essential." - Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira, Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Sao Paulo, and former Minister of Federal Administration and Reform, Brazil"

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