New Public Management and Managerial Reforms in Italy between 1990-2013: A Chronological History of Implementation Gaps?

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donatella Casale
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
New Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
Implementation Gaps

scholarly journals Implementing new public management in Zimbabwe: Challenges and obstacles

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-49
Author(s):  
Daniel Chigudu
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Public Sector Reforms ◽  
New Public ◽  
History Of

This paper is an exploratory study of the new public management (NPM)’s implementation in Zimbabwe. The data presented is a review of the government’s policy initiatives and research publications. Findings suggest fragmented implementation of NPM reforms without requisite administrative skills, lack of resources, ill timing, and political inertia. This research’s underlying significance is that it provides insights to improve NPM and future public sector reforms. It contributes to relevant literature by filling gaps in the research on NPM in Zimbabwe The paper provides policy recommendations necessary for addressing public sector reforms in developing economies particularly in African countries that have a history of political instability.

The New Public Management of Higher Education

2011 ◽  
pp. 279-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Brunskell-Evans
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
New Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
Pedagogy Of Discomfort ◽  
The Government

This chapter explores the possibilities of Michel Foucault’s philosophical-political writings for practicing a “pedagogy of discomfort” in Higher Education (HE). Foucault’s method of genealogy and his concept of governmentality are used to reflect upon the dynamics of power underlying the government of HE in the United Kingdom, in particular the new modes of teaching and learning. The chapter has three inextricably entwined aims: it presents a genealogical history of the changing face of HE under the auspices of New Public Management (NPM) as a form of neo-liberal governmental disciplinary control; it describes the new modes of teaching and learning as examples of that control; and it argues that inherent in genealogical modes of analysis are possibilities and opportunities for educationists concerned with politically framed progressive action to develop pedagogical practices that disrupt or challenge the government of teaching and learning.

scholarly journals Gavin Drewry, Louis Blom-Cooper, Charles Blake, The Court of Appeal

2008 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 212
Author(s):  
Charles James
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
English Court ◽  
Significant Events ◽  
New Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Court Of Appeal

This study is an important contribution to access to justice scholarship and research. The subject is the English Court of Appeal as the authors found it in 2000–2001 responding to the deep and comprehensive agenda of change resulting from the “new public management” initiatives of the Tory and Labour governments in power during the 1980’s and 90’s. Although the study is concerned primarily with the present day operation and recent history of the Court of Appeal, significant events in the life of the court from its beginnings in the court restructuring legislation of the 1870’s are recounted and analyzed at appropriate junctures in the text. An important body of data was collected by the authors during 2000-2001 from which they describe and analyze the subjects, types and origins of cases, the throughput of applications and appeals and their outcomes, and in particular, the new requirement for permission to appeal.

Discourses on public sector accounting reforms in China: A brief history (1949–2019)

2020 ◽  
pp. 103237322094862
Author(s):  
Eagle Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
News Media ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Government Accounting ◽  
New Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
Local Pressures ◽  
Sociopolitical Influences

This article investigates China’s recent reform to adopt accrual accounting in its public sector. It aims to offer an understanding of the sociopolitical influences that have shaped the reform by contextualising it against a history of Chinese government accounting practice and its surrounding discourses. Based on archival and published materials from the PRC between 1949 and 2019, this article examines antecedent discourses on government accounting from academic, government and news media sources. It uses the accounting discourse as a vantage point to understand the intellectual developments and discursive shifts that have since come to explain the recent Chinese government accounting reforms in connection to the Chinese context. While discourses leading up to the reforms seem to echo Western concerns of New Public Management on the surface, the analysis of this article demonstrates how the reforms respond to distinctly local pressures, ideas and objectives.

"Jedes starre Konzept ist schlecht und passt net' in diese Welt"

2007 ◽  
Vol 37 (148) ◽  
pp. 369-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Ludwig-Mayerhofer ◽  
Ariadne Sondermann ◽  
Olaf Behrend
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Unemployed People ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Public Employment Service ◽  
New Public ◽  
Recent Reform ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
New Procedures

The recent reform of the Bundesagentur fijr Arbeit, Germany's Public Employment Service (PES), has introduced elements of New Public Management, including internal controlling and attempts at standardizing assessments ('profiling' of unemployed people) and procedures. Based on qualitative interviews with PES staff, we show that standardization and controlling are perceived as contradicting the 'case-oriented approach' used by PES staff in dealing with unemployed people. It is therefore not surprising that staff members use considerable discretion when (re-)assigning unemployed people to one of the categories pre-defined by PES headquarters. All in all, the new procedures lead to numerous contradictions, which often result in bewilderment and puzzlement on the part of the unemployed.

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