WOLF'S MODEL: Government Failure and Public Sector Reform in Advanced Industrial Democracies
Many developed nations have embarked on public sector reform programs based on the New Public Management (NPM) paradigm. This article seeks to evaluate the efficacy of NPM reform strategies as a means of dealing with the problem of "government failure" in public sector hierarchies by examining these strategies through the analytical prism provided by Wolf's theory of nonmarket failure. Drawing on the New Zealand experience, we explore the potential for NPM reform initiatives to mitigate the problems of nonmarket supply. Moreover, we examine how "autonomous policy leadership" and "advocacy coalition networks" can overcome the various obstacles to the successful implementation of reform strategies delineated by Wolf under his "conditions of nonmarket demand". The article then focusses on the efficacy of NPM in removing, or at least reducing, the various forms of government failure identified in Wolf's taxonomic catalogue of nonmarket failure. We conclude by assessing some of the likely tradeoffs involved in the application of NPM reform programs. Copyright 2002 by The Policy Studies Organization.
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2002
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Authors: | Wallis, Joe ; Dollery, Brian |
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Review of Policy Research. - Policy Studies Organization - IPSO, ISSN 1541-1338. - Vol. 19.2002, 1, p. 177-203
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Policy Studies Organization - IPSO |
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