New Public Management and Substantive Democracy

The authors are concerned that a remaining refuge of substantive democracy in America, the public sector, is in danger of abandoning it in favor of the market model of management. They argue that contemporary American democracy is confined to a shrunken procedural remnant of its earlier substantive...

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Published in:Public administration review 2001-09, Vol.61 (5), p.608-619
Main Authors: Box, Richard C., Marshall, Gary S., Reed, B.J., Reed, Christine M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
19th century
20th century
Administration
Administrative agencies
Americans
Assaults
Business management
Capitalism
Citizen Participation
Citizenship
Collaboration
Community Relations
Democracy
Educational administration
Educational Quality
Governance
Government (Administrative Body)
Government services
Liberalism
Management
Management Styles
Markets
New Public Management
Physical Environment
Political aspects
Political Influences
Politics
Public Administration
Public good
Public management
Public Sector
Public services
Social aspects
Social Control
Social problems
Social Systems
Society
Success
U.S.A
United States
United States of America
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Summary:The authors are concerned that a remaining refuge of substantive democracy in America, the public sector, is in danger of abandoning it in favor of the market model of management. They argue that contemporary American democracy is confined to a shrunken procedural remnant of its earlier substantive form. The classical republican model of citizen involvement faded with the rise of liberal capitalist society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Capitalism and democracy coexist in a society emphasizing procedural protection of individual liberties rather than substantive questions of individual development. Today's market model of government in the form of New Public Management goes beyond earlier "reforms," threatening to eliminate democracy as a guiding principle in public-sector management. The authors discuss the usefulness of a collaborative model of administrative practice in preserving the value of democracy in public administration.
ISSN:0033-3352
1540-6210
DOI:10.1111/0033-3352.00131