The Impact of the New Public Management: Challenges for Coordination and Cohesion in European Public Sectors (Review Essay)
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Abstract
textabstractNew Public Management has been around for a quarter of a century in European public sectors, yet\ndespite the movement’s emphasis on indicators and evidence, there have been surprisingly few\nencompassing evaluations. In this paper, we provide an overview of academic evaluation and impact\nstudies of entire NPM-style reform programmes. We distinguish between two sets of NPM-style\nchanges and reforms. One is that of specific managerial innovations within public organisations. The\nother consists of changes to the role of government and citizens as a result of NPM ideas. We\nconclude that a majority of academic research has focused on the first set of changes, while\napproaches to the second set has been mainly of a critical nature with relatively limited attention for\nempirical studies.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it