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new public management  

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  • The label new public management (NPM) is widely used as an umbrella term covering a broad range of managerial reform strategies that have dominated the secular trend of public-sector change since the early 1980s. Despite the considerable degree of variation among the broad church of NPM-inspired reform measures, the import of microeconomic thinking and methods into the management of public organizations, as well as the leaning toward private-sector management as a normative ideal, can serve as a common denominator. [Source: Encyclopedia of Governance; New Public Management]

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