Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these contributions to administrative reform in order of publication.
- Hood, A Public Management for All Seasons (1991)
- Osborne and Gaebler, Reinventing Government (1992)
- Niskanen on the budget-maximising bureau (1971)
- Dunleavy and colleagues on digital-era governance (2006)
- Rhodes, Understanding Governance (1997)
Hints
- The public choice model comes two decades before the reforms it justified.
- Governance follows new public management by about six years.
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- Niskanen on the budget-maximising bureau (1971)
- Hood, A Public Management for All Seasons (1991)
- Osborne and Gaebler, Reinventing Government (1992)
- Rhodes, Understanding Governance (1997)
- Dunleavy and colleagues on digital-era governance (2006)
Why
The twenty-year gap at the front is worth noticing: the intellectual case was available long before the political conditions that made it actionable. The rest of the sequence is a reaction chain, reform, then the problems reform created, then the attempt to repair them.
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