Comparing the reiventing government movement with the new public administration
By: Frederickson, H. George
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ArticlePublisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, may/june 1996Public administration review: PAR 56, 3, p. 263-270Abstract: In this article the reinventing government movenment is compared with the new public administration along six dimensions. A strongly felt need to change bureucracy differently. Boht movements seek relevance and responsiveness, but in different ways, Issues of rationality, methodology, and epistemology are more important in the new public administration than in the reiventing government movement. Both movements conceptualize organization similarly. The reiventing government movement has a stronger commitment to market approaches for the provision of public services and to mechanisms for individualchoice. Reiventing government is popular electoral politics for executives (presidents, governors, mayors)and is more radical than new public administration. The new public administration prompted subtle, incremental shifts toward democratic management practices and social equity. The results of reiventing government, so far, are short-run increases in efficiency and social equity.
In this article the reinventing government movenment is compared with the new public administration along six dimensions. A strongly felt need to change bureucracy differently. Boht movements seek relevance and responsiveness, but in different ways, Issues of rationality, methodology, and epistemology are more important in the new public administration than in the reiventing government movement. Both movements conceptualize organization similarly. The reiventing government movement has a stronger commitment to market approaches for the provision of public services and to mechanisms for individualchoice. Reiventing government is popular electoral politics for executives (presidents, governors, mayors)and is more radical than new public administration. The new public administration prompted subtle, incremental shifts toward democratic management practices and social equity. The results of reiventing government, so far, are short-run increases in efficiency and social equity.
Public administration review PAR
May/June 1996 Volume 56 Number 3
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