Hello, I'm from Brazil.
In case, NPM emerged in UK at 1970/1980's, and in Brazil 15/20 years later. Brazil is an young democracy (until 1988 it's government were in military hands). In the last 25 years, we - still - think about, discuss and study how NPM can work better in Brazil, but in my opinion we should think in long-term and beyond, because there are so many different problems than other structured, rich and developed countries. Our problems are based on conflict policies, corruption, social disfunctions and an inneficient public management.
Now, we're living a moment of political, economical and social disaster: the last 12 years, one party subverted the government, constructed a plan of power, using the public machine based on the principles of New Public Management, and using them for its benefit, at first. I'm researching about and looking for new perspectives of public management in face of this instability, considering our past, our extension, our sistem of government and our policy (disassociated of political parties) focusing on people's interests. Do you have any considerations or can you suggest philosophers, researchers, professors, etc?
I'm studying now Public Value, specially Barry Bozeman and Mark Harrison Moore
1. NPM is considered to be outdated in the "western perspective"- the discussion started to turn in the direction of so called "neo-Weberian state" around 2005. This approach criticises NPM for simple solution in removing the state structures as recipe for better governance.
2. Any theoretical frame of administration will have equal results in any country if simply applying it - great chaos. So your initial question - no. NPM will have completely different effects in federative structures compared to unitary states, small vs. big countries, Latin America vs. Europe, etc. Any theoretical model should be carefully adapted to the cultural and socio-economic characteristics of the territory (we all often forget about this and than we have issues why the model does not work).
3. for the references - use google.
Thank you, Mr. Uros Puteric, for your explanation. In my country, public and political agents, university professors, reasearchers, etc are still talking and discussing and studying NPM as a model to be implemented, a model which "can save" our structure - and I disagree.
in my opinion, we should know about the NPM theory ,this is the first step.and then ,we have to research the history and status quo of every nation.in fact ,NPM is not very fit for a number of nations,for example,china,india,germany,france and so on.public value is an important aim,however, we have many methods to achive the aim,NPM is one of them,we also have many other ways.I think Towards a new world: some inconvenient truths for Anglosphere public administration,written by Christopher Pollitt,could answer your question in a way.
NPM emphasised achieving an efficient result without considering the basic principle of fairness and justice. Public administrators are expected to act like businessmen pursuing efficiency and consumer satisfaction without consideration for value. In Nigeria, most policies put in places like commercialization and privatisation, management by objective, deregulation concession, and in recent times, Public- private- partnership have not achieved much. Even, other public service reforms implemented to make the public service more result oriented and as well ensure effective service delivery have failed. NPM has made the public servants less accountable and transparent, more selfish, dishonest and corrupt.. (See my papers on Nigerian public service and service delivery ,MEASURES PUT IN PLACE TO CURB INDISCIPLINE IN THE NIGERIAN PUBLIC SERVICE, Corruption and service delivery: the case of Nigerian public service, and Corruption and Challenges of National Development)
Therefore, what we need is a kind of home-grown initiatives suitable for our own peculiar situation .
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