This Article focuses on the reality and alternative ideas for the crisis that New Public Management has attempted to raise. First, we compared the nature and characteristics of the crisis with those of old one and identified the differences between th...
This Article focuses on the reality and alternative ideas for the crisis that New Public Management has attempted to raise. First, we compared the nature and characteristics of the crisis with those of old one and identified the differences between them. Focusing on the ideological characteristics of marketization, we reexamined the rationales of New Public Management -the advantage of the private sector over the public one, the role of market or competition, and ethics and accountability related challenges. Then, we proposed three ideas to overcome the crisis we are facing and to improve public administration ; moderating ideological characteristics for the restoration of publicness, reappraising individual nations’own nature in public sector reform, and incorporating governance orientation that emphasizes the partnership between public and private sectors.