Political Science · Public Administration
Which is/are correct about the NPM (New Public Management) movement?
- 1. Adopting the management style of the private sector in public administration
- 2. NPM tried to align public administration with the free-market economy under the neo-liberal doctrine
- 3. The public administrator was to be like a private-sector manager serving citizens treated as customers
- 4. After the USA, the first countries to adopt NPM were the developing countries
A1, 2 and 3 ✓ Correct
B1, 2 and 4
C2, 3 and 4
D1, 2, 3 and 4
Correct answer: (A) 1, 2 and 3 — Statements 1, 2 and 3 are correct, so the answer is 1, 2 and 3.
Explanation
★Statements 1, 2 and 3 are correct, so the answer is 1, 2 and 3.
★NPM brought private-sector management styles into public administration.
★It aligned public administration with the free market under the neo-liberal doctrine.
★It cast the administrator as a manager and the citizen as a customer of public services.
★Statement 4 is wrong, because after the USA the first adopters of NPM were the OECD countries.
★These were mainly the high-income developed countries of Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
★So NPM spread first among developed, not developing, countries.
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