Political Science I / Changing the Model of Public Administration
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Complete the account of the reform waves.

Osborne and Gaebler summarised the managerial programme as: government should ______, not row. Rhodes described the result of disaggregation as self-organising interorganisational ______. The response to fragmentation is variously called joined-up government and ______-era governance. Hood observed that the economic and managerial strands of the reform ______ with each other.

Word bank: steer · networks · digital · conflict · row · agree

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  1. The first blank completes the best-known slogan of the era.
  2. The last blank describes the relation between tight contracts and freedom to manage.
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Osborne and Gaebler summarised the managerial programme as: government should steer, not row. Rhodes described the result of disaggregation as self-organising interorganisational networks. The response to fragmentation is variously called joined-up government and digital-era governance. Hood observed that the economic and managerial strands of the reform conflict with each other.

Why

The last blank names the internal contradiction. New institutional economics wants precise specification and tight contracts; managerialism wants managers freed to exercise judgement. A reform programme demanding both at once produces the familiar experience of being simultaneously empowered and audited.

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