A Critique of the New Public Management and the Neo-Weberian State: Advancing a Critical Theory of Administrative Reform |
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Authors: | William N Dunn David Y Miller |
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Institution: | (1) Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA;(2) Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA), University of Pittsburgh, Dean’s Office, 3407 Posvar Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA |
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Abstract: | The New Public Management (NPM) has often been favorably contrasted with European Public Administration (EPA). This paper
attempts to balance this Anglo-American perspective with a relatively new European critique of NPM which its authors call
the Neo-Weberian State (NWS). Despite their differences in some key respects, however, it is argued that the NPM and NWS are
similar in their sweeping paradigmatic character, their ambiguities and internal inconsistencies, their inability to go beyond
instrumental rationality and incorporate forms of hermeneutic and critical reason, and in their advocacy of bureaucracy via
participation under certain historical conditions, hence consistent with Weber’s characterization of modern organization and
management. The paper, based on the authors’ rendering of critical social theory, provides a fresh means for bridging the
two perspectives.
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Keywords: | New public management European public administration Neo-Weberian state Bureaucracy Critical theory Administrative reform |
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