IPMN Conference Papers

1998 International Public Management Network Conference

 Democratic Accountability and the New Public Management

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Atkinson Graduate School of Management

Willamette University

Salem, Oregon

June 28-30, 1998


Conference Schedule

June 28 - Sunday evening

Robert D. Behn, Director and Professor, The Governer's Center, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University

"The New Public Management Paradigm and the Search for Democratic Accountability"


June 29 Monday Morning

8:30 - 12:00

Cluster 1: National and Comparative Studies

Rob Laking, Director, Master of Public Management Programme, Graduate School of Business and Government Management, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

"Don't try this at home? A New Zealand approach to public management reform in Mongolia"

Sandford Borins, Professor and Chair, Division of Management and Economics, University of Toronto, Canada

"Public Management Innovation in the United States and Canada "


Monday Afternoon

1:00 - 4:30 pm

Cluster 2: NPM Theory and Practice in Intermediate Governments

June Pallot, Professor, Department of Accounting, Finance and Information Systems, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

"Local Government Reform in New Zealand: Options for Public Management as Governance"

Kurt Klaudi Klausen, Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Management, Odense University, Denmark

"New Mandarins in Local Government - A Comparative Study of Leadership"

Gernod Gruening, Department of Public Management, Hochschule fuer Wirtschaft und Politik, Hamburg, Germany

"What Is New about NPM? Theory and Practice at all Levels of Government"


June 30 Tuesday Morning

8:30 - 12:00

Cluster 3: The Art and Science of Accountability

Michael Barzelay, Interdisciplinary Institute of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

"Dialoguing About Performance Management and NPM"

Power Point Presentation

Riccardo Mussari, Professor, Department of Business and Social Studies, University of Siena, Italy

"The Citizen's Charter: Opportunity for NPM Implementation in Italian Health Services"

Christoph Reichard, Professor, Public Management Program, University of Potsdam, Alexander Wegener, Berlin Science Center, Germany

"The New Borderlines Between State and Market"

Margot Priest, Partner Regulatory Consulting Group Inc. Ottawa Canada, W.T. Stanbury, UPS Foundation Professor of Regulation and Competition Policy, University of British Columbia, Canada

"An Accountability Framework for Regulatory Agencies and Tribunals"

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Tuesday Afternoon

1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Cluster 4: Democracy and the New Public Management

Kuno Schedler, Professor and Juerg Felix, Institute for Public Finance and Fiscal Law, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

"Quality in Public Management - A Customer View of Service Quality"

Otto Brodtrick, Centre for Public Management, Ottawa, Canada

"NPM: Tensions Between Innovation and Accountability"

Alasdair Roberts, Professor, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Canada

"Must Worlds Collide? The Effect of Public Sector Restructuring on Governmental Openness"