Public Management: The New Zealand Model

Author(s): Jonathan Boston, John Martin, June Pallot and Pat Walsh

New Zealand

Many countries have undertaken major programmes of public-sector reform in recent times, and none more extensively than New Zealand.

Since the mid-1980s virtually every aspect of New Zealand's public sector has been restructured, giving rise to a new model of public management. Many of' the reforms have won domestic and international acclaim; some have also been the subject of considerable controversy.
Public Management: The New Zealand Model critically assesses the features of these reforms. It examines the model's theoretical origins, and explores how the new, model operates in practice - how its outcomes those intended, and what impact, both positive and negative, it has had on the governance of New Zealand.

Particular attention is given to:
institutional design the appointment and accountability of chief executivesthe purchasing of policy advicehuman-resource managementfinancial managementbiculturalism and fire principles of the Treaty of Waitangithe impact of the reforms on the culture, ethics, and ethos of the public sector,current provisions for administrative review.
The authors are all academics at Victoria University of Wellington: Jonathan Boston and John Martin in public policy, June Pallot in accountancy, and Pat Walsh in industrial relations.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9780195583250
  • : Oxford University Press Australia & New Zealand
  • : Oxford University Press Australia & New Zealand
  • : 0.607
  • : February 1996
  • : 229mm X 152mm X 23mm
  • : Australia
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Jonathan Boston, John Martin, June Pallot and Pat Walsh
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : very good
  • : 416
  • : bibliography