Assignment Title -Critically assess the utility of the leading conceptual models of “traditional public administration”, “new public management” and “new public governance” in helping us to understanding of how the public sector functions in the UK today.
1. What are the principal features of ‘traditional public administration’?
2. To what extent are the criticisms emanating from the New Right fair and accurate?
3. Is there such a thing as ‘Public Management’ or is the concept simply a recasting of old ideas?
4. Can the public sector benefit from the introduction of private sector ideas and ways of operating?
5. What are the obstacles and pitfalls of public management?
6. Governance simply another set of theoretical propositions that do little to represent the realities of public policy implementation and public services delivery in the practical world you live in as an official?
7. Give examples of socio-political, public policy, administrative, contract and network governance, the key elements that constitute New Public Governance.
8. Is New Public Governance simply a rehash of writings on policy communities and networks that have been around since the 1990s?