Open AccessINVITED EDITORIAL The UK NPM Reforms
Author(s) -
Noralv Veggeland
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
european scientific journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1857-7881
pISSN - 1857-7431
DOI - 10.19044/esj.2017.v13n16p1
Subject(s) - vanguard , political science , public administration , government (linguistics) , state (computer science) , new public management , public sector , law , history , philosophy , linguistics , archaeology , algorithm , computer science
The United Kingdom was a "vanguard state" for experimentation with administrative reforms that came to be known as the New Public Management or NPM strategies aiming market orientation of the public sector. After three decades, what results has NPM produced in the UK? This is a review of a research report by Christopher Hood and Ruth Dixon, who tries to explain maladministration and judicial challenges to nUK government actions.