In the 1980s and 1990s the governance witnessed a shift from the Weberian model of
bureaucracy to the 'new managerialism'—a term used to describe the group of ideas …

Following the rise of the New Public Management (NPM) in the 1980s, policymakers
increasingly mobilized management consultants from the private sector in the course of …

Recent contributions to the literature on bureaucratic reform suggest that profit-seeking
consultants from the private sector are one of the main driving forces behind the global …

This article explores the key question: What accounts for the growing importance of
management consultants in the public policy process? To do so, the article relies on …

The question of who has the ear of the Crown has long fascinated journalists, historians and
political scientists. Personalities such as Cardinal Wolsley at the time of Henry VIII, Grigory …

The nature and extent of changes in management remain subject to debate, especially
around the notion of post-bureaucracy. Most research concedes that there has been some …

The use of external policy consultants in government has been an increasing focus of
concern among governments in the US, the UK, Canada and Australia, among others …

At the end of the 19805 I wrote a book entitled Managerialism and the Public Services (Pollitt
1993). The book advanced the thesis that managerialism was a distinct ideology and that it …

This book challenges the assumption that policy makers' work with advisory committees is
emblematic of technocratic governance. Analyzing how and why the European Commission …

In much of the international public administration literature, New Public Management (NPM)
already appears to be bogged down in a quagmire of critical revisions and assessments …