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1、NewPublicManagementandtheQualityofGovernment:CopingwiththeNewPoliticalGovernanceinCanadaPeterAucoinDalhousieUniversityHalifax,Canadapeter.aucoin@dal.caConferenceon‘NewPublicManagementandtheQualityofGovernment’,SOGandtheQualityofGovernmentInstitute,UniversityofG
2、othenburgSweden13-15November2008AtensionbetweenNewPublicManagement(NPM)andgoodgovernance,includinggoodpublicadministration,haslongbeenassumedbythosewhoregardthestructuresandpracticesadvocatedandbroughtaboutbyNPMasdepartingfromtheprinciplesandnormsofgoodgovernan
3、cethatunderpinnedtraditionalpublicadministration(Savoie1994).Theconcernhasnotabated(Savoie2008).Asthisdynamichasplayedoutoverthepastthreedecades,however,thereemergedanevenmoresignificantchallengenotonlytothetraditionalstructures,practicesandvaluesoftheprofessio
4、nal,non-partisanpublicservicebutalsotothosereformsintroducedbyNPMthathavegainedwide,ifnotuniversal,acceptanceaspositivedevelopmentinpublicadministration.ThischallengeiswhatIcallNewPoliticalGovernance(NPG).ItisNPG,andnotNPM,Iargue,thatconstitutestheprincipalthre
5、attogoodgovernance,includinggoodpublicadministration,andthustheQualityofGovernment(QoG)asdefinedbyRothsteinandTeorell(2008).Itisathreattotheextentthatpartisansingovernment,sometimesovertly,mostlycovertly,seektouseandoverridethepublicservice–animpartialinstituti
6、onofgovernment–tobettersecuretheirpartisanadvantage(Campbell2007;MacDermott2008a,2008b).Insodoing,thesegovernorsengageinapoliticizationofthepublicserviceanditsadministrationofpublicbusinessthatconstitutesaformofpoliticalcorruptionthatcannotbutunderminegoodgover
7、nance.NPMisnotacauseofthispoliticization,Iargue,butitisaninterveningfactorinsofarasNPMreforms,amongotherreformsofthelastthreedecades,havehadtheeffectofpubliclyexposingthepublicserviceinwaysthathavemadeitmorevulnerabletopoliticalpressuresonthepartofthepoliticale
8、xecutive.IexaminethisphenomenonbylookingprimarilyatthecaseofCanada,butwithanumberofcomparativeWestminsterreferences.Iconsiderthephenomenontobeaninternationalone,affectingmos