Public Value Governance: Moving Beyond Traditional Public Administration and the New Public Management

2014/06/12 by John M. Bryson, Barbara C. Crosby, Laura Bloomberg · 1,472 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Social Sciences · #Action (physics) #Administration (probate law) #Business #Computer science #Corporate governance #Democracy #Democratic governance #Finance #Government (linguistics) #Law #Local Government Finance and Decentralization #New public management #Political science #Politics #Professional administration #Public Policy and Administration Research #Public administration #Public management #Public relations #Public sector #Public value #Regulation and Compliance Studies #Value (mathematics)

paper · doi:10.1111/puar.12238

published in Public Administration Review 74(4), 445-456 (Wiley)

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Abstract

A new public administration movement is emerging to move beyond traditional public administration and New Public Management. The new movement is a response to the challenges of a networked, multisector, no‐one‐wholly‐in‐charge world and to the shortcomings of previous public administration approaches. In the new approach, values beyond efficiency and effectiveness—and especially democratic values—are prominent. Government has a special role to play as a guarantor of public values, but citizens as well as businesses and nonprofit organizations are also important as active public problem solvers. The article highlights value‐related issues in the new approach and presents an agenda for research and action to be pursued if the new approach is to fulfill its promise .

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