This article discusses: the doctrinal content of the group of ideas known as 'new public
management'(NPM); the intellectual provenance of those ideas; explanations for their …

Changes in public sector accounting in a number of OECD countries over the 1980s were
central to the rise of the “New Public Management”(NPM) and its associated doctrines of …

More than a decade has passed since the publication of Christopher Hood's influential piece
that codified the nature of the New Public Management (NPM)(Hood 1991). At that time it …

Written by B. Guy Peters, a leading authority in the field, this comprehensive exploration of
the political and policy making roles of public bureaucracies is now available in a fully …

Global politics have been transformed by revolution and reformation in the last two decades.
As political systems crashed or teetered precariously and entire governments and national …

First published in 1991. This book initially offers a critique of some key rational public choice
models, to show that they were internally inconsistent and ideologically slanted. Then due to …

Public administration as an academic discipline has more or less crumbled during the recent
decades of research into the public sector. It has become outdated, losing its status as the …

The Public Policy Process is essential reading for anyone trying to understand the process
by which public policy is made. Explaining clearly the importance of the relationship …

A major introductory textbook for students of politics, sociology and public administration on
theories of the state and of politics. The five core chapters each introduce a major school of …

The central discussion is that the welfare state exists for additional reasons to poverty relief.
If all poverty and social exclusion could be eradicated, people would still need to insure …