The Rise of a New Public Bureaucracy in New Zealand?
(2022) In Administration and Society 54(1). p.57-86- Abstract
One recurrent narrative in the discussion about managerial public sector reforms is the growth in organizational professionals as a response to new accountability regimes. New Zealand has experienced modest growth rates in the general public sector workforce. Less studied, though, is whether the composition of the public sector workforce has changed, with an increase in organizational functions supportive to management. Based on descriptive workforce data, followed by follow-up interviews, this article presents a multifaceted and complex picture of a growing new public bureaucracy with the main task of managing chains of accountability.
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- Löfgren, Karl ; Darrah-Morgan, Ben ; Hall, Patrik LU and Alamaa, Linda LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2022
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- managerialism, New Zealand, organizational professional, public sector
- in
- Administration and Society
- volume
- 54
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 57 - 86
- publisher
- SAGE Publications
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- scopus:85105808949
- ISSN
- 0095-3997
- DOI
- 10.1177/00953997211013301
- language
- English
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- yes
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- 141c3fd7-dd5e-45f5-ab92-fa4649cdc3c7
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