Justice, Efficiency, and the New Public Management
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11962080 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexandru Volacu (0000-0003-2957-6620, Faculty of Public Administration National University of Political Science and Public Administration, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 404-414 |
| Publication date | 2017-07-20 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Journal of Public Administration (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0313-6647 • E-ISSN: 1467-8500 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-8500.12263 |
| OpenAlex | W2736323160 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 28 |
In this article I aim to explore the link between two normative values, namely justice and efficiency, and the New Public Management approach. In pursuing this task I offer several critical arguments against some of the recent justice‐based objections levied against New Public Management by David Arellano‐Gault. I claim that Arellano‐Gault's account of the relation between justice and the New Public Management is seriously undermined by two conceptual flaws: (1) a conflation of right‐libertarianism, utilitarianism, and desert theories of justice and (2) a conflation of the technical/productive sense of efficiency with the social/distributive sense. Furthermore, I maintain that even when the different theories of justice and the different senses of efficiency are properly delineated, the case for necessarily linking NPM to a particular theory of justice is markedly unconvincing
Conflation · Distributive justice · Economic Justice · Economics · Epistemology · Law and economics · Normative · Political science · Positive economics · Relation (database · Sociology · Utilitarianism · Computer Science · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Public Policy and Administration Research
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| Citations per year | 0.17 |
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| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |