International Public Management Network (IPMN)

1998 Conference Salem, Oregon (USA) PDF Print E-mail

Democratic Accountability and the New Public Management

Atkinson Graduate School of Management
Willamette University
Host: Professor Fred Thompson
Salem, Oregon
June 28-30, 1998

 

Conference Schedule

Sunday, June 28
Time Activity Speaker Location/Room
Sunday Evening
Robert D. Behn, Director and Professor, The Governer's Center, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University
"The New Public Management Paradigm and the Search for Democratic Accountability"
Monday, June 29
Time Activity Speaker Location/Room

 


Monday Morning
8:30 - 12:00

 

 

Cluster 1: National and Comparative Studies

 

 
Rob Laking, Director, Master of Public Management Programme, Graduate School of Business and Government Management, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
"Don't try this at home? A New Zealand approach to public management reform in Mongolia"
Regina Silvia V. M. Pacheco, Professor and Director, National School of Public Administration (ENAP), Ministry of Federal Administration, Brazil
"State Reform in Brazil"
Sandford Borins, Professor and Chair, Division of Management and Economics, University of Toronto, Canada
"Public Management Innovation in the United States and Canada "
Monday Afternoon
1:00 - 4:30 pm
Cluster 2: NPM Theory and Practice in Intermediate Governments
June Pallot, Professor, Department of Accounting, Finance and Information Systems, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
"Local Government Reform in New Zealand: Options for Public Management as Governance"
Kurt Klaudi Klausen, Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Management, Odense University, Denmark
"New Mandarins in Local Government - A Comparative Study of Leadership"
Gernod Gruening, Department of Public Management, Hochschule fuer Wirtschaft und Politik, Hamburg, Germany
"What Is New about NPM? Theory and Practice at all Levels of Government"
Tuesday, June 30
Time Activity Speaker Location/Room
Tuesday Morning
8:30 - 12:00
Cluster 3: The Art and Science of Accountability
Michael Barzelay, Interdisciplinary Institute of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
"Dialoguing About Performance Management and NPM"
Riccardo Mussari, Professor, Department of Business and Social Studies, University of Siena, Italy
"The Citizen's Charter: Opportunity for NPM Implementation in Italian Health Services"
Christoph Reichard, Professor, Public Management Program, University of Potsdam, Alexander Wegener, Berlin Science Center, Germany
"The New Borderlines Between State and Market"
Margot Priest, Partner Regulatory Consulting Group Inc. Ottawa Canada, W.T. Stanbury, UPS Foundation Professor of Regulation and Competition Policy, University of British Columbia, Canada
"An Accountability Framework for Regulatory Agencies and Tribunals"
Tuesday Afternoon
1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m
 Cluster 4: Democracy and the New Public Management
Kuno Schedler, Professor and Juerg Felix, Institute for Public Finance and Fiscal Law, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
"Quality in Public Management - A Customer View of Service Quality"
Otto Brodtrick, Centre for Public Management, Ottawa, Canada
"NPM: Tensions Between Innovation and Accountability"
Alasdair Roberts, Professor, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Canada
"Must Worlds Collide? The Effect of Public Sector Restructuring on Governmental Openness"


Conference Papers

Author

Affiliation

Paper Title
Robert D. Behn Director and Professor, The Governer's Center, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University "The New Public Management Paradigm and the Search for Democratic Accountability"
Rob Laking Director, Master of Public Management Programme, Graduate School of Business and Government Management, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand "Don't try this at home? A New Zealand approach to public management reform in Mongolia"
Regina Silvia V. M. Pacheco Professor and Director, National School of Public Administration (ENAP), Ministry of Federal Administration, Brazil "State Reform in Brazil"
Sandford Borins Professor and Chair, Division of Management and Economics, University of Toronto, Canada
June Pallot Professor, Department of Accounting, Finance and Information Systems, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand "Local Government Reform in New Zealand: Options for Public Management as Governance"
Kurt Klaudi Klausen Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Management, Odense University, Denmark "New Mandarins in Local Government - A Comparative Study of Leadership"
Gernod Gruening Department of Public Management, Hochschule fuer Wirtschaft und Politik, Hamburg, Germany "What Is New about NPM? Theory and Practice at all Levels of Government"
Michael Barzelay Interdisciplinary Institute of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom "Dialoguing About Performance Management and NPM"
Riccardo Mussari Professor, Department of Business and Social Studies, University of Siena, Italy "The Citizen's Charter: Opportunity for NPM Implementation in Italian Health Services"
Christoph Reichard Professor, Public Management Program, University of Potsdam, Alexander Wegener, Berlin Science Center, Germany
"The New Borderlines Between State and Market"
Margot Priest Partner Regulatory Consulting Group Inc. Ottawa Canada, W.T. Stanbury, UPS Foundation Professor of Regulation and Competition Policy, University of British Columbia, Canada "An Accountability Framework for Regulatory Agencies and Tribunals"
Kuno Schedler Professor and Juerg Felix, Institute for Public Finance and Fiscal Law, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland "Quality in Public Management - A Customer View of Service Quality"
Otto Brodtrick Centre for Public Management, Ottawa, Canada "NPM: Tensions Between Innovation and Accountability"
Alasdair Roberts Professor, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Canada "Must Worlds Collide? The Effect of Public Sector Restructuring on Governmental Openness"