Administrative philosophies in the discourse and decisions of the New Zealand public service: is post-New Public Management still a myth?

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Administrative philosophies in the discourse and decisions of the New Zealand public service: is post-New Public Management still a myth?

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Victoria University of Wellington

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New Zealand is frequently cited as the archetypical example of New Public Management (NPM), having gone ‘further and faster’ than other jurisdictions in radically reforming their public service in the late 1980s. These reforms have been credited with significant gains in efficiency and responsiveness, while introducing new challenges. Successive reforms over the past 30 years tinkered with the model without fundamentally altering the underlying paradigm, such that authors refer to the ‘myth o...

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2022

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Rodney J Scott / Flavia Donadelli / Eleanor RK Merton

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https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Administrative_philosophies_in_the_discourse_a...

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Other commerce, management, tourism and services not elsewhere classified / Policy and administration not elsewhere classified / Political Science & Public Administration / Policy and Administration not elsewhere classified / Business and Management not elsewhere classified

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