The Proverbs of New Public Management Lessons From an Evidence-Based Research Agenda Academic Article

abstract

• The movement for an evidence-based practice of medicine seeks to systematically examine and challenge current practices in that professional field. This article uses the same philosophy to examine an extensive research agenda by Laurence J. O'Toole and Kenneth J. Meier and apply it to public management. Using the New Public Management as a foil, the article examines 10 extant proverbs of public management. The assessment shows the weak support for many such nostrums of public management and illustrates how systematic, theoretically designed quantitative research can inform the practice of public management.

authors

• Meier, Kenneth

published proceedings

• AMERICAN REVIEW OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

author list (cited authors)

• Meier, K. J., & O'Toole, L.

citation count

• 81

complete list of authors

• Meier, Kenneth J||O'Toole, Laurence J Jr

publication date

• January 2009

publisher

• SAGE Publications  Publisher

published in

• American Review of Public Administration  Journal

keywords

• Management
• Networks
• Performance
• Public Organizations

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1177/0275074008326312

start page

• 4

end page

• 22

volume

• 39

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0275074008326312