Understanding the Rhetorical Patterns that Emerge During a Process of Paradigmatic Policy Change: The Case of New Public Management

Joe L. Wallis and Brian Dollery ()

International Review of Public Administration, 1999, vol. 4, issue 2, 57-66

Abstract: Hirschman’s tripartite taxonomy of the perversity, futility and jeopardy theses is used to examine criticisms of the shift from a bureaucratic paradigm to the New Public Management (NPM). The intransigent pattern of rhetoric that can emerge when these provoke “progressive” counterarguments is then considered. Cognitive dissonance theory is then drawn upon to explain why policy communities undergoing the imposition and institutionalization of a new policy paradigm are likely to experience conditions that are particularly conducive to the emergence of this pattern of rhetoric.

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1080/12294659.1999.10804933

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