New Public Management: The Story Continues

Noel Hyndman; Irvine Lapsley

doi:10.1111/faam.12100

New Public Management: The Story Continues

Noel Hyndman, Irvine Lapsley

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New Public Management (NPM) has aroused significant interest amongst academe, policy makers and practitioners, since its first articulation in the seminal articles by Hood (1991 and 1995). However, in the 21st century, a body of opinion has developed which asserts that the NPM is passé. This paper seeks to determine the contemporary status of NPM in the context of the UK, one of the early adopters of NPM. Close inspection of UK Government policy underlines the importance of NPM ideas in the New Labour Government modernisation policy (1997-2010). Furthermore, the policy actions of the 2010–2015 UK Coalition Government reveal that the global financial crisis intensified the drive for NPM in the UK’s public sector. This discussion reveals no evidence in support of the demise of NPM.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	385-408
Number of pages	24
Journal	Financial Accountability & Management
Volume	32
Issue number	4
Early online date	03 Oct 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/faam.12100
Publication status	Published - Nov 2016

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NPM, modernisation, New Labour, financial crisis, coalition government

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© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Hyndman, N. and Lapsley, I. (2016), New Public Management: The Story Continues. Financial Accountability & Management, 32: 385–408. , which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/faam.12100/abstract. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
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