Political Science · Public Administration
Which thinker is considered to have coined the term NPM (New Public Management)?
APatrick Dunleavy
BOsborne and Ted Gaebler
CChristopher Hood ✓ Correct
DRosemary O'Leary
Correct answer: (C) Christopher Hood — Christopher Hood is credited with coining the term New Public Management.
Explanation
★Christopher Hood is credited with coining the term New Public Management.
★He used it in his 1991 article A Public Management for All Seasons.
★Hood drew together the strands of managerial reform under this single label.
★Osborne and Gaebler popularised the ideas in Reinventing Government, but did not coin the term.
★Patrick Dunleavy later argued that NPM is dead and gave digital-era governance.
★Rosemary O'Leary is linked with the third Minnowbrook Conference.
★So the coining of NPM belongs to Christopher Hood.
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