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Governance innovations as social imaginaries: challenges of post-NPM

Funck, Elin LU and Karlsson, Tom (2024) In Public Management Review 26(9). p.2680-2699
Abstract
The effects of NPM have been criticized for decades and we are now seeing how alternative, post-NPM, governance innovations emerge. What joins these innovations is the critique against NPM and the ambition to provide new ways of governing public organizations. From a critical stance, we engage in a discussion of governance innovations from the perspective of social imaginaries and analyse post-NPM from dystopian and utopian viewpoints. We argue that the main legitimacy for post-NPM lies in it demonizing NPM, whereas a more fruitful way forward would entail incorporating elements of NPM to create a holistic governance model for the future.
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NPM, post-NPM, magic concepts, social imaginaries, governance innovation
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Public Management Review
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26
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9
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2680 - 2699
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Taylor & Francis
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  • scopus:85177472855
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1471-9045
DOI
10.1080/14719037.2023.2281981
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English
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