NDLI: From Bureaucracy to Debureaucratization?

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Author	Argyriades, Demetrios
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	More than previous mild recessions, the current global crisis calls into question the merits of a model that held sway for almost three decades. Celebrated in the nineties in a “National Bestseller”, which even President Clinton considered to be a “blueprint” “for all officials to read”, the book—Reinventing Government—preached the reform of government in private sector ways. In stark contrast to Bureaucracy, which they considered “Bankrupt”. Authors Osborne and Gaebler (1993) promoted Debureaucratization, which they summed up as decentralization, deregulation, downsizing and outsourcing. It is time to revisit the assumptions of the Osborne-Gaebler model that has demonstrably failed. More than the model, however, the ways of its promotion in the market of ideas invites a word of caution. It prompted simplistic distortions, which typically followed from superficial analyses of Weber’s seminal opus (Timsit 2008:864–875). This paper reconsiders these two contrasting models, though not in “black” and “white”. Rather, the two are explored in dialectical terms, as outcomes of shifting ideologies, often taken to extremes.
Starting Page	275
Ending Page	297
Page Count	23
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15667170
Journal	Public Organization Review
Volume Number	10
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15737098
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2010-09-09
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Administration Administrative evil Bureaucracy Corruption Debureaucratization Democracy Deregulation Enlightenment Etatisme New public management Professionalism Public service ethics Technology Weber, Max Economic Policy Management/Business for Professionals Public Finance & Economics Political Science
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Law Business, Management and Accounting

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