Administrative Change in the EU: a Cross-Country Empirical Study on the Contextual Determinants of NPM Reform Rhetoric

Esposito, Giovanni; Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio; Trasciani, Giorgia

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Administrative Change in the EU: a Cross-Country Empirical Study on the Contextual Determinants of NPM Reform Rhetoric

Esposito, Giovanni; Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio; Trasciani, Giorgia

2017 • In Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 88 (3), p. 323–344

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New Public Management; Public Sector; Administrative reform

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[en] Framed within the paradigm of New Public Management (NPM), structural reforms in the EU aimed at modernizing the public administrations of Member States (MSs) have long since been a priority area of the EU’s economic policy. Since the 1990s, these reforms have been sharply intensified across European countries with the declared purpose of enhancing economy, efficiency and effectiveness in their national public sectors’ organizations. In line with the European Commission’s recent research initiatives in search for novel quantitative data on NPM in the EU, this paper studies European parties’ NPM reform rhetoric. More specifically, it investigates the MSs’ institutional, economic and political context within which parties have declared their intention of reforming national administrative systems. Thus, it sheds light on the MSs’ domestic factors that are associated with the diffusion of the NPM values across the political discourse of EU’s national parties.

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LENTIC - Laboratoire d'Études sur les Nouvelles Formes de Travail, l'Innovation et le Changement - ULiège

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Political science, public administration & international relations
Economic systems & public economics

Author, co-author :

Esposito, Giovanni ; Université de Liège > HEC-Ecole de gestion : UER > LENTIC

Gaeta, Giuseppe Lucio; University of Naples "L'Orientale" > Department of Human and Social Sciences

Trasciani, Giorgia; University of Naples "L'Orientale" > Department of Human and Social Sciences

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English

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Administrative Change in the EU: a Cross-Country Empirical Study on the Contextual Determinants of NPM Reform Rhetoric

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14 August 2017

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Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics

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1370-4788

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1467-8292

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Wiley, Oxford, United Kingdom

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323–344

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