Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 25th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview IX. Transition, Change and Uncertainty Author(s) Gyorgy Hajnal Corvinus University of Budapest Budapest Hungary Rosta Miklos, Title NPM and Post-NPM in the view of European Administrative Elites: Towards Understanding the Relationship of Public Management Reform Doctrines File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Gyorgy Hajnal Abstract The paper seeks to explore and understand the relationship between two major contemporary public management reform doctrines: the New Public Management (NPM) and the post-NPM doctrines. In particular, we wish to identify and test competing hypotheses about the possible causal relationships between these two doctrines. These hypotheses centre around two questions. Firstly, whether post-NPM reforms are triggered by earlier NPM reforms (and, in particular, by the perceived problems and failures brought about by them) or, rather, by other factors largely unrelated to NPM. Secondly, whether post-NPM reforms can be conceived of as an anti-thesis of NPM aimed at undoing the changes of the previous epoch or, rather, post-NPM elements add up to a new, additional “layer” of public management reforms, leaving the earlier ones largely untouched. The empirical basis of the analysis is a recent large-scale questionnaire survey of senior public administration executives working in sixteen European countries.
