The New Public Management

Barzelay provides a convincing and coherent interdisciplinary framework for public sector management policy, which helps bridge the practiotioner-academic divide. Public officials involved in reform policy will benefit from this book. - Alex Matheson, Public Management Service, OECD, Paris Much of what passes for analysis of New Public Management, both among advocates and detractors, is biased and superficial. Michael Barzelay has made a serious attempt to move the debate forward by identifying standards for reasoning about public management, and this book deserves to be read carefully by students and teachers of the subject. - Christopher Hood, Gladstone Professor of Government, Oxford University The is a smart, challenging, and important book. It provides us with a framework for studying public management, demonstrating that it is indeed a field of policy analysis like environmental policy or foreign policy....Barzelay outlines the rules that should govern serious multidisciplinary discourse in the field, thereby laying the foundation for a truly international research community. - Fred Thompson, Editor, International Public Management Journal Barzelay is a pioneer in the kind of administrative reform that empowers civil servants while making them more accountable to the societies they serve. His new book...is a much needed intellectual contribution to a field where interdisciplinary thinking is essential. - Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira, Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Sao Paulo, and former Minister of Federal Administration and Reform, Brazil

Michael Barzelay is Lecturer in Management and Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Formerly an associate professor at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, he is author of Breaking through Bureaucracy; A New Vision for Managing in Government (California, 1992) and The Politicized Market Economy: Alcohol in Brazil's Energy Strategy (California, 1986).

CONTENTS List of Figures and Boxes Preface Acknowledgments 1.Studying the New Public Management 2.Case Studies on Public Management Policy-Making 3.Comparative Analysis of Public Management Policy-Making 4.How to Argue about the New Public Management 5.Controversy and Cumulation in NPM Argumentation 6.Conclusion Notes References Subject Index Name Index