New Public Management (NPM) has recently been compared and contrasted with Public Governance (PG) to show shifts in conceptions of public administrations and in reform agendas. We develop measures to capture the relevance of NPM and PG in textual discourse, and investigate to what extent they entered the political debate. Content analysis of electoral programs for the 2005 Italian regional elections reveals that even in this legalistic country, considerable attention was paid to both NPM and PG issues. An important explanatory variable in preference for NPM or PG is party ideology, highlighting often-ignored within-country dynamics. Furthermore, we show how a methodological approach adapted from mainly political science and business research can be better exploited in the field of Public Administration.

Measuring new public management and governance in political debate

FATTORE, GIOVANNI;DUBOIS, HANS FRANCOIS WOUTER;LAPENTA, ANTONIO
2012

Abstract

New Public Management (NPM) has recently been compared and contrasted with Public Governance (PG) to show shifts in conceptions of public administrations and in reform agendas. We develop measures to capture the relevance of NPM and PG in textual discourse, and investigate to what extent they entered the political debate. Content analysis of electoral programs for the 2005 Italian regional elections reveals that even in this legalistic country, considerable attention was paid to both NPM and PG issues. An important explanatory variable in preference for NPM or PG is party ideology, highlighting often-ignored within-country dynamics. Furthermore, we show how a methodological approach adapted from mainly political science and business research can be better exploited in the field of Public Administration.
2012
2012
Fattore, Giovanni; Dubois, HANS FRANCOIS WOUTER; Lapenta, Antonio
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