PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, DEVELOPMENT AND NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT: EMERGENCE AND PRINCIPLES
Dominic Shimawua
Department of Public Administration,
Faculty of Management Science, Veritas University, Abuja
Email: dshimawua@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
New Public Management refers to a set of reforms that have come to radically redefine the nature of public sector organizations. Being inspired by a broad management ideology the reforms have brought forward ideas about ‘real’ organizations – i.e. having clear and unique identity, being able to plan and carry out rational decisions, and having well-defined boundaries and hierarchical structures. These ideas go hand in hand with rationales of administration of public sector organizations which can be seen both as transformative in the process of introduction of NPM and as an outcome of this process. However, there are few criticisms of the doctrines of NPM from the political perspective and few of the developing countries have become successful in public sector reform. This paper attempts to pinpoint the emergence, principles and criticisms of NPM considering its principles.
Keywords: Public Administration, New Public Management, Principles, Efficiency
