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New Public Management à la Française: The Case of Regional Hospital Agencies
Author(s) -
Minvielle Etienne
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
public administration review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.721
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1540-6210
pISSN - 0033-3352
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2006.00640.x
Subject(s) - conservatism , modernization theory , public administration , reputation , intervention (counseling) , public management , political science , administration (probate law) , management styles , public relations , new public management , business , public sector , law , medicine , nursing , politics
In 1996, French authorities—committed to developing an innovative, decentralized style of public intervention in a country with a reputation for administrative conservatism and a historical bias toward centralization—created the Regional Hospital Agencies. The author asks whether these agencies exemplify the modernization of French public administration. A survey of all 26 such agencies indicates that they did introduce novel management practices and do, in fact, illustrate New Public Management “ à la française.”