New Public Management Reforms

Public Sector and Globalization: Towards New public Management

Running public service organizations that is used in government and public service institutions and agencies, at both sub-national and national levels is a major area of research in public policy in the era of globalization. Thus, the aim of this paper is to probe relationships between new public management and the process of globalization. It argues that the emergence of NPM is the consequence...

EProblems of policy transfer in public management reforms: some lessons from Papua New Guinea

Public Financial ManageMent ReFoRMs in Post-conFlict countRies synthesis RePoRt

Hesitation and rapid action: the new public management reforms in the Norwegian hospital sector

This paper focuses on the transition of governmental management innovations from the national, political level to the local, institutional level. In order to throw some light on the complex process of two-level reforms in public sector "nancial management, I discuss the case of introducing prospective payment systems in Norwegian hospitals during 1987}1999. The empirical studies are based on o$...

Evaluation as Usable Knowledge for Public Management Reforms

Do public sector reforms use evaluation? What good practices has experience brought to light? Does evaluation have a future? In this article, evaluation shall be defined as an instrument or means for improving the capacity to learn about conducting successful change and defining achievable outcomes in the fields of public efficiency and effectiveness. Whilst many forms of evaluation exist, in g...