11: Assembling New Public Management: actors, networks and projects

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30 Jul 2024
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In this chapter we adopt the analytic of “assemblage” (Anderson and McFarlane, 2011) to document how New Public Management (NPM) has been mobilized and recontextualized within different nation states over time through the unique combination of discrete yet tangled and globally diffuse political movements and configurations. To make sense of these issues empirically, we trace multiple iterations of NPM in five countries: Argentina, Australia, England, Italy and Spain. We focus our attention on the intermediating actors, networks and projects that have crystallized to produce different possibilities for the emergence of NPM within these countries and reflect on their comparable yet uneven development as dynamic expressions of governance assemblages.

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