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2. 1 INTRODUCTION Of the many initiatives aimed at improving the innovate nature of public service provision, one of the most significant in the UK has been the introduction of New Public Management. The spirit of this managerial reform is one of accountability in which public servants recognize and embrace responsibility for the direct delivery of service by being answerable to the clients and politicians, and open to competition from other potential providers. The idea is that this operational and limited strategic latitude and results-oriented assessment affords the civil servants institutional space to innovate based on their own insight and experience, relatively free from the shackles of daily political interference.
1996). The upshot would be a government able to deliver high quality goods and services, be responsive to customers, empower clients and be entrepreneurial (Osborne and Gaebler, 1992) whilst maintaining expected levels of public service integrity (Brerton and Temple, 1999). A term that seeks to encompass all these reform movements is New Public Management or NPM (Hood, 1998). Essentially, NPM can be seen as the growing awareness within the public sector of a need to acquire and develop management skills and attitudes more traditionally associated with the corporate and production sectors of the economy.
Theory is grounded in new empirical research that is conducted at the macro, meso and micro levels. The book is organized into two parts. Chapters 1 to 4 develop key themes that motivate research in this area. Chapter 2 is a critical analysis of the theory and practice of New Public Management. Chapter 3 explores the heterogeneity of welfare state models that exist in Europe, and the variety of different approaches and methods that have been used to modernize public services. It examines the empirical link between the size and performance of the public sector in different EU countries and economic growth.