From Bureaucracy to Public Management: The Administrative Culture of the Government of Canada
Authors: O. P. Dwivedi and James Iain Gow
The Institute of Public Administration of Canada (c) 1999
Pages: 192
ISBN: 1-55111-271-X
Public administration is going through a period of turmoil, both in practice and in theory. After a period of unprecedented growth from the end of World War II until the mid-1970s, the developed world experienced increasing financial difficulties and a sense of disappointment with the bureaucracies that had been created. This led to strong challenges by politicians, people in business, and academics. The result was a dramatic increase in the tendency to turn to management practices used in the business sector, even as business itself continued to change. The resulting public management movement presents a strong challenge to the bureaucratic methods developed by modern welfare states.
Administrative culture has received a lot of attention in recent years. Like most other concepts used in the social sciences, it does not always mean the same thing, nor do students and actors in the field draw similar conclusions from what they think they see.
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