A critique of the New Public Management and the Neo-Weberian State: Advancing a critical theory of administrative reform

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作者：

Dunn W.N. ^{[1
]}

Miller D.Y. ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260

[2] Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA), University of Pittsburgh, Dean's Office, Pittsburgh, PA 15260

来源：

Public Organization Review | 2007年 / 7卷 / 4期

关键词：

Administrative reform; Bureaucracy; Critical theory; European public administration; Neo-Weberian state; New public management;

D O I：

10.1007/s11115-007-0042-3

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摘要：

The New Public Management (NPM) has often been favorably contrasted with European Public Administration (EPA). This paper attempts to balance this Anglo-American perspective with a relatively new European critique of NPM which its authors call the Neo-Weberian State (NWS). Despite their differences in some key respects, however, it is argued that the NPM and NWS are similar in their sweeping paradigmatic character, their ambiguities and internal inconsistencies, their inability to go beyond instrumental rationality and incorporate forms of hermeneutic and critical reason, and in their advocacy of bureaucracy via participation under certain historical conditions, hence consistent with Weber's characterization of modern organization and management. The paper, based on the authors' rendering of critical social theory, provides a fresh means for bridging the two perspectives. © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2007.

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页码：345 / 358

页数：13

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