Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each description by whether it belongs to NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT or to GOVERNANCE.
Groups: New public management · Governance
- Disaggregate into units with clear objectives
- Introduce competition between providers
- Coordinate networks nobody controls
- Steer indirectly through frameworks and funding
- The state as one actor among several
- Specify outputs and hold managers to targets
Hints
- One column is about control through contracts; the other about influence without control.
- Anything acknowledging that the state cannot command belongs to the second.
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New public management: Disaggregate into units with clear objectives, Specify outputs and hold managers to targets, Introduce competition between providers
Governance: Coordinate networks nobody controls, The state as one actor among several, Steer indirectly through frameworks and funding
Why
The columns are best read as cause and consequence. Disaggregation and contracting produced the landscape of interdependent organisations the governance literature describes, so governance is partly a theory of what new public management left behind rather than a rival programme.
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