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During the 1980s, government reform became an important international political issue. Both the United Kingdom and New Zealand initiated measures that included the reduction of government agencies and the introduction of business-like public management. Gradually, the idea of government reform spread to other countries at all levels of development: Australia, Canada, and the United States introduced their own measures, and eventually, initiatives to reform the public sector became a virtually universal phenomenon. Professor Christopher Hood of the London School of Economics and Political Science labeled this international trend toward reform as “New Public Management” (NPM) (See, for instance, Hood 1990).
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Nakamura, A. (2002). A Paradigm Shift in Japan’s Inter-Governmental Relationships: Reform of Government and Decentralization of Central Power. In: Caulfield, J., Larsen, H.O. (eds) Local Government at the Millenium. Urban Research International. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-10679-1_9
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