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Will ICTs Finally Reinvent Government? The Mutual Shaping of Institutions and ICTs

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New Public Management in Europe

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For at least a couple of decades, governments have implemented a rather heterogeneous set of private sector management techniques known as New Public Management (NPM) (see Chapters 1 and 2). In the previous chapters, it has been shown that NPM takes many forms and shapes, and is implemented in a variety of ways in diverse institutional contexts.

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© 2007 Christopher Pollitt, Sandra van Thiel and Vincent Homburg

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Homburg, V., Snellen, I. (2007). Will ICTs Finally Reinvent Government? The Mutual Shaping of Institutions and ICTs. In: Pollitt, C., van Thiel, S., Homburg, V. (eds) New Public Management in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230625365_8

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