Did New Public Management Matter? An empirical analysis of the outsourcing and decentralization effects on public sector size

• Published in: Public management review Vol. 17; no. 5; pp. 643 - 660
• Main Authors: Alonso, José M., Clifton, Judith, Díaz-Fuentes, Daniel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon Routledge 28.05.2015; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Decentralization; Government spending; New Public Management; Outsourcing; Political science; Public administration; Public expenditure; Public management; Public sector; public sector size; Studies; Subcontracting

Did New Public Management (NPM) actually lead to a smaller public sector? NPM has been the subject of extensive academic debate as to its successes and failures. However, empirical assessments of whether NPM reached its stated objectives are relatively scarce, mainly due to the difficulty of quantif...