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Christopher Hood is a British academic specializing in public administration and government reform. He has served as a professor at the University of Oxford and is known for his influential research on public management, regulation, and administrative theory.
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The New Public Management
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the New Public Management (NPM) movement, which reshaped public administration in the late twentieth century. Hood examines the origins, principles, and consequences of NPM reforms, focusing on managerialism, performance measurement, and market-based approaches in government. The work critically assesses how these ideas transformed bureaucratic structures and accountability in public service.
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From Bureaucracy to Management: The Historical Context of NPM
To grasp why New Public Management took hold, we must start with the administrative system it sought to displace. For much of the twentieth century, public administration followed what might be called the ‘progressive’ or Weberian model of bureaucracy. Its central ideals were impartiality, hierarchy...
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The Intellectual DNA of New Public Management
The intellectual foundations of NPM lie in two main currents: private-sector managerialism and the economic theories that valorized markets over bureaucracies. Managerialism carried the belief that management techniques were universally applicable, whether in a factory, a firm, or a ministry. This w...
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Christopher Hood is a British academic specializing in public administration and government reform. He has served as a professor at the University of Oxford and is known for his influential research on public management, regulation, and administrative theory.
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