Evaluation of NPM

In brief NPM advocate the progressive back tracking of government from the micro issues especially removal of political interference in the administration at the execution of the policies. ‘Economic rationality’ and ‘performance’ are the keywords of NPM. NPM attempts to refashion the bureaucracy as a dynamic, resultoriented, efficient, responsive and responsible public servant who is sensitive and aware of public needs, wishes and preferences. In order to achieve its objectives NPM attempts to downsize governments and tries to replace the philosophy of ‘public interest’ with that of the ‘market’ which is criticized by scholars of public administration. Its central concern about optimization of scarce public resources and development of new ways of public/private cooperation receive positive response but its emphasis on the relaxation to the market forces is targeted by many especially in the Third World.

Check your progress 1 Following are the watch words of the New Public management: A........... B........... C........... 2 New Public Management is theoretically rooted in Public Choice Theory and Neo -Taylorism True/False 3 Assumptions of Public Choice Theory are: A............................................................................................ B............................................................................................