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The Irish government embraced new public service (NPS) management as a mode of governance to promote neo-liberal economic and social policies from the 1990s onwards (Collins, 2007). The project was framed as one of ‘modernization’, but the practices were not just ‘modernist’; the technical processes involved in new managerialism were distinctly political.
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© 2012 Kathleen Lynch, Bernie Grummell and Dympna Devine
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Lynch, K., Grummell, B., Devine, D. (2012). New Managerialism as a Political Project: The Irish Case. In: New Managerialism in Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137007230_1
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