New Public Management and Convergence in Public Administrative Systems: A Comparison between Australia and the Republic of Korea

Title
New Public Management and Convergence in Public Administrative Systems: A Comparison between Australia and the Republic of Korea
Publication Date
2004
Author(s)
Dollery, Brian Edward
Lee, CW
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Southern Cross University, Centre for Policy Research
Place of publication
Australia
UNE publication id
une:3172
Abstract
New Public Management (NPM) has adopted many of the qualities often associated with the concept of 'modernization', including the presumption that it is unambiguous, irreversible, convergent, and beneficent. This rhetorical stance has served to propagate the global influence of NPM and entrench it as the dominant doctrinal model in contemporary public management. This paper considers the claim that there is an international trend towards public sector convergence following the policy prescriptions of NPM After a case study comparison of the processes of public sector reform in Australia and the Republic of Korea, we argue that the distinction between symbolic reform and actual reform belies the convergence claims of NPM Thus, although reform 'talk' between Australia and Korea have been predicated on common NPM themes, the reform 'walk' has been quite different between the two countries.
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Citation
Journal of Economic and Social Policy, 9(1), p. 26-42
ISSN
2202-4883
1325-2224
Start page
26
End page
42

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