Post-New Public Management: reform ideas and their application in the field of social services
| Date | 01 March 2019 |
| Author | Tanja Klenk,Renate Reiter |
| Published date | 01 March 2019 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0020852318810883 |
| Subject Matter | Introduction |
Editorial
International
Review of
Administrative
Sciences
Post-New Public
Management: reform
ideas and their
application in the field
of social services
Tanja Klenk
Helmut-Schmidt-University/University of the Federal Armed
Forces Hamburg, Germany
Renate Reiter
FernUniversit€
at Hagen, Germany
From New Public Management to post-New
Public Management?
Public sector reforms used to be easier to understand in the past – or so it seems –
especially during the heyday of New Public Management (NPM) from the late
1980s to the late 1990s. Indeed, what Christopher Hood (1991) once called ‘New
Public Management’ was a generalised reform programme that was implemented
throughout the whole Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD) world and beyond, at the supranational level as well as at the national
and local levels. It was all about business-like changes in public sector organisa-
tions (e.g. corporatisation), including the replacement of hierarchical coordination
by competition, the market mechanism as a possible modus operandi for improving
the efficiency of public services, the introduction of a product culture intended to
strengthen accountability and so on (Lindberg et al., 2015: 3).
Corresponding author:
Department of Political Science (Public Policy & Environmental Policy), FernUniversit€
at in Hagen,
Universit€
atsstraße 33 / C, 58084 Hagen, Germany.
Email: renate.reiter@fernuni-hagen.de
International Review of
Administrative Sciences
2019, Vol. 85(1) 3–10
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