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Debate #155 · Governance, civil service and public policy

Is New Public Management viable for developing countries like Pakistan?

Asked 4 times · 4 years · Public Administration
This debate All debatesAsked beforeQuestions (4)Evidence (1)PositionsSame themeIs Pakistan's bureaucracy a colonial steel frame or an agent of development?Is Pakistan's governance crisis rooted in weak institutions or in politics?Has Weber's bureaucratic model outlived its usefulness for modern public administration?
+2 moreCan performance-based HRM replace seniority and patronage in Pakistan's civil service?Does citizen and civil society participation improve policymaking in Pakistan?

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Examiners want: NPM versus bureaucratic model, whether it explains Pakistan's reforms, permanence of reinventing government, and limits in developing-country settings

The questions

2023
CSS · Public Administration · Take a position

New Public Management has been hailed as the dominant paradigm for public service in the last two decades. In your opinion, how viable is NPM for developing countries taking into account the distinct and complex environment of public sector organizations in such countries?

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2020
PMS · Public Administration · Evaluate

Contemporary public administration has been powerfully influenced by the broader governance trends such as public ethics and reinventing government. Evaluate this statement as a permanent feature or only a temporary trend in context of Pakistan?

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2010
CSS · Public Administration · Take a position

Compare and contrast the Bureaucratic Model with New Public Management (NPM). Do you think NPM has replaced the bureaucratic approach to public administration? Support your views with examples from Pakistan

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2003
CSS · Public Administration · Take a position

What is “New Public Management”? To what extent NPM explains the administrative reforms in Pakistan which have been undertaken in the last few years? Discuss with examples.

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Evidence you can cite

New Public Management: 1980s shift from rules to results and markets: From the 1980s a reform process known as managerialism or new public management took shape, centred on private management tools, performance indicators, quality standards and market mechanisms for public services (1980s onward (paper published 2013))Chipea and Banciu, 'Bureaucracy versus New Administrative Management', University of Oradea

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News about this debate watches for: new public management, reinventing government, osborne and gaebler, devolution plan 2001, performance management, results-based management, citizen charter, agencification, contracting out, public sector reform.