At the centre or in control? Central agencies in search of new identities

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  • Richard Norman

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/pq.v4i2.4254

Keywords:

Treasury, State Services Commission, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, State Sector Act

Abstract

The New Zealand public management model is a product of 1980s and 1990s enthusiasm for replacing hierarchy and centralised bureaucracies with contracts and market-like methods for delivering public services. Fervour for change from tradition is illustrated by the titles of these books published in 1992, a high-water mark for public sector reform in New Zealand: Liberation Management (Peters, 1992), Reinventing Government (Osborne and Gaebler, 1992) and Breaking through Bureaucracy (Barzelay, 1992).

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Policy Quarterly volume 4 number 2 2008

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2008-06-01

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Vol. 4 No. 2 (2008): Policy Quarterly

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