MARDONES, Rodrigo
The influence of neomanagerialism on reform of the Chilean civil service - 2002
This paper assesses the influence of the New Public Management paradigm on the reform process of the Chilean civil service. I follow Peter Hall's three approaches to study the role of public ideas in economic policymaking. I add a fourth: the idea-centered approach , which seeks to explain neomanagerialism on its own merits as a cohesive and significant public idea. The state-centered approach shows the constraints that civil service institutions pose for the proporsals of reform: the high number of political appointments is the most important obstacle remaining for the development of a career civil service. The economist-centered approach clarifies the influence of Chilean technocrats in framing the paradigm within the country's context. Lastly, the coalition-centered approach explains the politics of reform. I show that labor-management cooperation was essential for the advancement of a performance-based compensation system, which is a key neomanagerial feature. The study concludes that, while maintaining the fundamental tentes of neomanagerialism, the final national result confirms the existence of divergent reform strategies
The influence of neomanagerialism on reform of the Chilean civil service - 2002
This paper assesses the influence of the New Public Management paradigm on the reform process of the Chilean civil service. I follow Peter Hall's three approaches to study the role of public ideas in economic policymaking. I add a fourth: the idea-centered approach , which seeks to explain neomanagerialism on its own merits as a cohesive and significant public idea. The state-centered approach shows the constraints that civil service institutions pose for the proporsals of reform: the high number of political appointments is the most important obstacle remaining for the development of a career civil service. The economist-centered approach clarifies the influence of Chilean technocrats in framing the paradigm within the country's context. Lastly, the coalition-centered approach explains the politics of reform. I show that labor-management cooperation was essential for the advancement of a performance-based compensation system, which is a key neomanagerial feature. The study concludes that, while maintaining the fundamental tentes of neomanagerialism, the final national result confirms the existence of divergent reform strategies
