exploring linkages between new public sector management and globalization

the objective of this paper is to examine linkages between new public management and the process of globalization. although the linkage of the two subjects has been inadequately considering the literature, one can find strong parallels between them, particularly with respect to the theme of globalization as the victory of economics over politics, and that of the parallel reforms of competition state including the introduction of market forces and flexibility into the public sector, and decentralization. this paper, first, maps out the development of the new public management both practically and conceptually, and then works out areas of commensurability. the paper then argues that structure and agency are significant means for the evaluation of these areas. new public management is mainly concerned with the structure of the public sector and the way of affecting the manner of bureaucrats and politicians, while globalization is concerned greatly with the way that global forces change structure and the way that state actors react. finally, the structuration is a useful method of analyzing the interplay between globalization and the implementation of new public management through a continual process of interaction between structure and agent and those structures are themselves ever-changing.