Governance innovation as social imaginaries: challenges of post-NPM

Elin K. Funck and Tom S. Karlsson

Public Management Review, 2024, vol. 26, issue 9, 2680-2699

Abstract: The effects of NPM have been criticized for decades and we are now seeing how alternative, post-NPM, governance innovations emerge. What joins these innovations is the critique against NPM and the ambition to provide new ways of governing public organizations. From a critical stance, we engage in a discussion of governance innovations from the perspective of social imaginaries and analyse post-NPM from dystopian and utopian viewpoints. We argue that the main legitimacy for post-NPM lies in it demonizing NPM, whereas a more fruitful way forward would entail incorporating elements of NPM to create a holistic governance model for the future.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2023.2281981

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