El New Public Management y los elementos para configurar un Estado del arte

Abstract

This essay aims to provide an array of statements in regard to New Public Management (NPM) debate. We analyze representative books of the issue. One is Jackson and Hood’s book The administrative argument and the other one is the last Omar Guerrero’s book “From management state to civic state”. Additionally, we looked at some papers presented in two international congresses. The first one held in September 1998 in Paris by the International Institute for Administrative Sciences. The second one was the Development Administration Latin American Congress, held in Madrid in October 1998. In Both of them, scholars presented arguments in favor and against the new public management. According to some scholars NPM represents the administrative side of structural adjustment programs, which have shown that for them maximizing earnings prevails over a just redistribution of wealth which is one of the main concerns in Latin America. Some other scholars believe that NPM is an opportunity to have a more efficient government where productivity and efficacy are to be achieved no matter if we think either in business or in government affairs.