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makes it potentially diYcult to use to solve a priori problems (Boston et al. 1996 ; Christensen and Lægreid 2001 , 19 – 20 ; Ke ...

and in a quantitative way, de-emphasizing both traditional control and regulation functions and qualitative aspects of service p ...

increased consumer focus—implying more competition and use of business methods. This principle disregards the citizenship role a ...

administrative leaders are delegated functions and authority, can choose how goals are to be attained, and also control others o ...

achieving them less ambiguously and to obtain and evaluate information about the results (Pollitt and Bouckaert 2004 )? While th ...

NPM-related reform processes have shown mixed results with regard to feasibility features (Christensen and Lægreid 2001 ; Pollit ...

norms (Self 2000 , 159 – 69 ). Does NPM represent a normative trend with the potential to create new types of leaders, citizens, ...

sense. They often cite increasing problems of accountability in crisis situations and problems of corruption under NPM, as seen ...

coupled to service provision, such as more general societal considerations or issues of sector policy. Many of these involved ad ...

and Lægreid 1998 ). The crucial question, however, is whether this increased con- sciousness will change the behavior of civil s ...

signals, while agency leaders, who are further removed from political executives structurally, seem to care less about political ...

eVort not to interfere in the activities of agencies and public companies, they are often criticized for being too passive, espe ...

old. Gulick ( 1937 ), a representative of the ScientiWc Administration school that sought to change the structure of the federal ...

A good illustration of the dynamics between NPM and JUG is New Zealand, where worries about the fragmentation of central governm ...

smarter policy is not easy to judge and has yet to be seen. It may potentially increase eYciency and eVectiveness through fewer ...

systems like the USA (Pollitt and Bouckaert 2004 ). The neoliberal wave behind NPM also occurredWrst in these countries. A rathe ...

(eds.) 2001 .New Public Management: The Transformation of Ideas and Practice. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2002 .Reformer og lederskap: O ...

Gore,A. 1993 .From Red Tape to Results: Creating a Government that Works Better and Costs Less. Report of the National Performan ...

Mascarenhas,R.C. 1996 .Government and the Economy in Australia and New Zealand: The Politics of Economic Policy Making. San Fran ...