Neoliberal power and public management reforms / Peter Triantafillou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Triantafillou, Peter, author.

Series:

Social and political power.

Social and political power

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public administration.

Civil service reform.

Organizational change.

Neoliberalism.

Administrative procedure.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 182 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Croydon : Manchester University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book shows that neoliberalism is a complex phenomenon that is linked to public administration and management in no straightforward manner. The key problem for critical neoliberalism is how the state can and should govern in a situation of epistemological finitude without infringing on individual freedom. The book explores neoliberalism first in terms of a critical problematisation of government and then in terms of a constructivist problematisation. Over the last two or three decades, the public sectors of many liberal democracies have seen a tremendous surge of reforms, programmes and policies seeking to promote accountability, credibility and evidence. These include the institutionalisation of ever more sophisticated performance-measurement systems and the accreditation of institutions providing key public services. The ambition is to move from a rule-based to a result-based public sector. The book examines how performance auditing of state and other public institutions has become increasingly important in most OECD countries. It discusses the general shifts in the regulative ideals informing the making of the civil-servant persona in liberal democracies. The quest for accountability, credibility and the use of evidence in the public administration are examples of a more or less new form of power. This form of power is in turn informed by what the author calls 'constructivist neoliberalism'.

Contents:

Introduction

Critical approaches to public administration and management

Neoliberalism: epistemological finitude or infinite freedom?

Accountability: the reflection and expansion of government?

Democratic accountability and the institutionalisation of performance auditing

Accreditation: the ultimate technique for governing government?

Evidence-based policymaking: toward epistemological infinitude?

A new civil-servant persona?

Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Mar 2026).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781526103765

1526103761

OCLC:

990186222