Résumé
How policymakers should guide and manage public bureaucracies is a question that lies the heart of contemporary debates about government and public administration. In recent years, political executives, central agency leaders and legislators have demonstrated a great interest in policies affecting public management. In their search for better systems of public management, reformers have looked in particular at the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. Some public sector reforms have been adopted in these countries in the last fifteen years and have been characterised by efficiency units, performance management, contracting out and market type mechanisms. These countries are exemplars of this New Public Management, a term used to describe distinctive new themes, styles, and patterns of ...