Description
This work describes and critically assesses the merits of the new model of public management in New Zealand. It examines the model's theoretical origins and identifies the administrative principles and doctrines upon which it is based. It also explores how the new model operates in practice, how its outcomes compare with those intended, and what impact it has had, both positive and negative, on the governance of New Zealand.
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Many countries have undertaken major programmes or public-sector reform in recent times, and none more extensively than New Zealand. Since the mid-1980s virtually every aspect of New Zealand's public sector has been restructured, giving rise to a new model of public management. Many of the reforms have won domestic and international acclaim; some have also been the subject of considerable controversy.Public Management: The New Zealand Model describes and critically assesses the features of these reforms. It examines the model's theoretical origins and explores how the new model operates in practice - how its outcomes compare with those intended, and what impact, both positive and negative, it has had on the governance of New Zealand.
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