New Zealand: reunifying the state and the (really, truly, this time) death of the New Zealand Model?

Shaun Francis Goldfinch

Chapter 19 in Handbook of Public Administration Reform, 2023, pp 351-372 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Legislative changes in 2020 have ostensibly continued a divergence of New Zealand from the New Public Management exemplar established in the late 1980s and early 1990s. But the public administration system established in the 1980s and 1990s continues, with the 2020 Act codifying and crystallizing three decades of tinkering. The Act reaffirms much of the mechanisms and structures in place for the last few decades. Some of its claimed novelty is simply a restating and rebranding. The Act maintains the ‘management’ and then ‘leadership’ focus that NPM and so-called post-NPM has been criticized for. And rather than abandoning NPM in its entirely, the Act introduces some key aspects of NPM from the 1980s, including Departmental Agencies, a variant of the UK Executive Agencies. This is hybridization rather than revolution. It remains to be seen whether the Act will deliver on addressing concerns noted in decades of discussion.

Keywords: Business and Management; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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