New Public Management

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The paper discusses the fundamental change of societal values that New Public Management (NPM) is seeking to institutionalize and the structural changes which have made democratic politics more difficult for the general populace. The paper reveals that many of the reforms introduced by New Public Management initiatives have not had the intended outcomes and the participation under this model of governance does not encompass real and genuine public involvement and decision making. The paper concludes, therefore, that many of the reforms introduced by the New Public Management initiative do not genuinely strengthen democracy.

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Introduction
Review and Discussion
Conclusion

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"According to King, Feltey, and Susel (1998), there has been an increasing amount of attention given to the appropriate role of the public component of public administration in recent years, but the issue about the role of citizens in a democratic republic is as old as the debates that characterized the Constitutional Convention in 1787. In this regard, Black's Law Dictionary (1990) defines the important role of "citizen" as being, "One who, under the Constitution and laws of the United States, is a member of the political community, owing allegiance and being entitled to the enjoyment of full civil rights" (244). In fact, the Founding Fathers carefully considered the proper role of the average citizen in the new democratic experiment upon which they were embarking, with many of the Convention delegates suggesting that the masses could not be entrusted with the heavy responsibilities that were to go hand-in-hand with citizenship in a democratic republic (Hall 366)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Barzelay, Michael. The New Public Management: Improving Research and Policy Dialogue. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001.
• Black's Law Dictionary. St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Co., 1990.
• Box, Richard C., Gary S. Marshall, B.J. Reed, and Christine M. Reed. (2001). "New Public Management and Substantive Democracy." Public Administration Review 61(5):608.
• Brudney, Jeffrey L., Sergio Fernandez, Jay Eungha Ryu and Deil S. Wright. (2005). "Exploring and Explaining Contracting Out: Patterns among the American States." Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 15(3):393.
• Feltey, Kathryn M., Cheryl Simrell King and Bridget O'Neill Susel. (1998). "The Question of Participation: Toward Authentic Public Participation in Public Administration." Public Administration Review 58(4):317-319.

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