IPMN Newsletter 2000
Number 1

We are pleased to provide members with a draft outline the program for our upcoming IPMN Conference to be held at Macquarie Graduate School of Management in Sydney, Australia March 4 - 6, 2000. Our host and program chair for the conference is Professor James Guthrie.

Details about the follow-on IPMN Workshop hosted by Professor Rob Laking at the University of Victoria, Wellington on March 9-10 will be provided subsequently.

Paradoxes of Public Sector Managerialism, Old Public Management and Public Service Bargains

Kelly, J. & Wanna, J. Are Wildavsky Guardians and Spenders Still Relevant? NPM and the Politics of Government Budgeting

Posner, P. & Gordon, B. Can A Nation Save? Experiences of Countries with Budget Surpluses

Edye, C. Accrual Budgeting - A Groundbreaking Initiative in the Commonwealth Financial System

Tooley, S. School-Based Management: A Critical Analysis of the Imposition of NPM within New Zealnd's State Education System

Putterill, M, Speer, D.Has the Invisible Hand Shaped a Wooden Spoon? Information Technology Policy in New Zealand

Hughes, O. & O'Neill, D. Reaching the Limits of Managerialism: The Kennett 'Revolution' in Victoria

Dufour, Yvon Managing New Public Management Change to Revitalizing Public Health-Care Systems In QUEBEC (Canada)

Green, M. Cowboys and the New Public Management: Political Corruption as a Harbinger

Gault, D. & Mendoza, E. NPM: Contraditions and Pitfalls - Lessons from Underdeveloped Countries

Roberts, A. Lockbox Government? Segregated Funding Strategies and Governance in Canada, Britain and the United States

Professor Jonathon Boston: "An Evaluation of Aspects of NPM (with particular reference to NZ), and the Limits to Contracting Out"

Carlin, T. & Guthrie, J. Review of Australian and New Zealand Experiences of Output Based Budgeting

Stewart, R. Specifying Outputs and Outcomes: Implications for Resource Allocation in Australia and the USA

English, L. & Guthrie, J. Transformation of Public Sector Financial Management: Reflections on the Victorian Experiences from Downunder

Di Francesco, M. Performance Management and Policy Advice: Learning for Policy Coherence?

The Government Reform Agenda: An International Perspective - Panel Session Professor Christopher Hood, Professor Jonathan Boston, Professor Larry Jones, Professor Fred Thompson

I look forward to sharing the papers from this conference and from the New Zealand Workshop with you via the IPMN website (http://www.inpuma.net), and to visiting with many of you in Sydney and Wellington.

Victoria University, in association with the International Public Management Network (IPMN), is pleased to announce a joint workshop on the theme: “New Zealand Public Management: Lessons Learned and Future Developments.” The Workshop host and program coordinator is Professor Rob Laking. The New Zealand Workshop follows the IPMN 2000 Conference in Sydney, Australia to be held March 4-6, hosted at Macquarie University's Graduate School of Management by Professor James Guthrie. (See IPMN Newsletter 2000 No. 1. 

The Wellington Workshop will bring together New Zealand and international scholars and practitioners to engage in a dialogue typical of IPMN events, i.e., structured but with emphasis on open informal discussion. The discussion will center on the following questions: What have we learned from New Zealand’s public management experience of the last decade? What issues do these lessons raise for the future development of public management, both in New Zealand and in other countries? What should be on the agenda for further research and scholarship in public management in New Zealand? New Zealand academics and practitioners will present six papers on these questions at the workshop on March 10 at The University of Victoria, Wellington.

Registrations are welcomed—but don’t delay. Space is limited. To register, and to find out more about the Workshop, go to the following website:

Note:  An error was made in sending the paper titles and authors for the IPMN Sydney 2000 Conference Program. The paper by Green, M. "Cowboys and the New Public Management: Political Corruption as a Harbinger" should show the authors as deLeon, P. and Green, M.