Au revoir NPM
A paper published on PublicNet by Michael Duggett, described as a career civil servant with the National School of Government, who from 2001 to 2006 served in Brussels as director general of the IIAS,...
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The 12 February 1809 saw the birth of Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator, it was also the birth date for Charles Darwin, who may be described as the great emancipator of the mind with his theory of...
View ArticleAccountability
A report to appear amidst the grey literature in February is one from Localis entitled “For Good Measure – Devolving Accountability for Performance and Assessment to Local Areas“. However, what worries...
View ArticleThe paradigm trap
In my research I’ve been critical of the influence of New Public Management (NPM) on government, and on e-government. Another recent paper I’ve discovered that supports my view and also strongly...
View ArticleOpen by design
A very recent paper by Yu & Robison entitled The New Ambiguity of “Open Government” highlights one of the ongoing difficulties of the whole e-government and ‘open government’ debate, and so, for...
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