1 - The New Zealand Public Sector
1. The State sector in New Zealand
2 - Origins of New Public Management
Multiple influences on NPM:
Neo-liberalism
neoliberalism
Impact of neo-liberal ideas on public sector management
Concepts - managerialism
The preferences of managerialism:
Concepts - public choice theory
public choice theory – con’t
NPM remedies to rent-seeking risk:
NPM remedies (continued):
Agency problems
Concepts – Transactional Cost Economics
Tensions within NPM
3 - Public Sector Reform in New Zealand
Resource: Graham Scott – Public Management in New Zealand
Three phases of Public Sector Reform in New Zealand
Increased responsiveness of bureaucracy
What factor and Ideas informed the 1980s reforms?
1984-2000 : Scott – chap 2 -the reforms
assessment of results
Colin James
Jonathan Boston
Boston
2001 Review of the Centre: problem identification:
2001 Review of the Centre: proposed solutions
Post-2000 reforms (a)
Post-2000 reforms (b)
Development Goals
State Sector Reform in NZ - Achieving ‘whole of government’ outcomes
State Sector Reform In NZ:– Balancing innovation and risk
4 - Implications for Public Sector Reform elsewhere
NPM in Asia?
The New Public Management & its Legacy
Review of main points