International Public Management Network Symposium: "New Public Management Has Been Completely Discredited, Thank God!"
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Jones, L.R.
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2004
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In late February 2004, well-known and highly respected Canadian academic Donald Savoie was
appointed to assist the Canadian government, "to help overhaul the management and
accountability of government in the aftermath of [a] scandal." Among the remarks Savoie made
to the press upon appointment was the following excerpt, "New public management has been
completely discredited, thank God" (The Ottawa Citizen, 2/27/04). Savoie's comment and the
article that carried it were brought to the attention of the IPMN community by Alasdair Roberts.
The comment stimulated a dialogue about NPM on the IPMN listserver that is represented in this
symposium, in roughly the order in which comments were transmitted, with only minor editing.
The dialogue tells much about current views on the utility, or lack thereof, of New Public
Management and how the maturation of NPM is perceived by the international community of
scholars in the field of public management.
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International Public Management Review, Volume 5, Issue 2, 2004.
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