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GOVN 505: Innovative Public Management (Rev. 1) Report a Broken Link

The purpose of this course is to enable students to understand and to think critically about the fundamental changes that have taken place throughout the bureaucracies in the Western world, and to enable students to evaluate these changes in a comparative perspective.

Unit 1

Required Readings

Donald J. Savoie, “What Is Wrong With the New Public Management?”
Sandford Borins, “The New Public Management Is Here to Stay.”
Donald J. Savoie, “Just Another Voice from the Pulpit.”
Sandford Borins, “A Last Word.”
Kenneth Kernaghan, “Keeping the New Public Management Pot Boiling.”

Unit 2

Required Readings

Lapsley, Irvine. 2009. “New Public Management: The Cruellest Invention of the Human Spirit?”

ABACUS 45(1): 1-21. 
Dunleavy, Patrick, Helen Margetts, Simon Bastow, and Jane Tinkler. 2006. “New Public Management is Dead – Long Live Digital Era Governance”

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. 16(3): 467-494.
Hood, Christopher and Ruth Dixon. 2015. What We Have to Show for 30 Years of New Public Management: Higher Costs, More Complaints

Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions, 28 (3): 265–267.
Morgan, D. and Shinn, C. (2014). The Foundations of New Public Governance. In D. Morgan and B. Cook (eds.) New Public Governance: A Regime-Centered Perspective. New York: Routledge.
Dahl, Adam and Joe Soss. 2014. “Neoliberalism for the Common Good? Public Value Governance and the Downsizing of Democracy.”

Public Administration Review. 496-504.

Unit 3

Required Readings

Garven, G. 2005. "Governance Reform: A Values Framework for Canadian Public Administration," Underneath the Golden Boy, Manitoba Law Journal l4.
Kenneth Oldfield, George Candler and Richard Gregory Johnson III. 2006. Social Class, Sexual Orientation, and Toward Proactive Social Equity Scholarship.

The American Review of Public Administration 36: 156-172.

Unit 4 Required Readings

Bannister, Frank. 2011. “The Trouble with Transparency: A Critical Review of Openness in e-Government.”

Policy and Internet 3(1): 1-30.
Hood, Christopher. 2011. “From FOI World to WikiLeaks World: A New Chapter in the Transparency Story?”

Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions. 24(4): 645-648.
Stefanick, L. 2015. "Blurring the Boundaries of Private, Partisan, and Public Interests." Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy in Canada. Athabasca: AU Press.

Unit 5

Required Readings

Farazmand, Ali. 2002. Administrative ethics and professional competence accountability and performance under globalization.

International Review of Administrative Sciences 68(1): 127–143.
Demetrios Argyriades. 2006. Good governance professionalism, ethics and responsibility.

International Review of Administrative Sciences. 72(2):155–170.
Kernaghan, Kenneth. 2014. Digital Dilemmas: Values, Ethics and Information Technology.

Canadian Public Administration. 57 (2): 296-317.

Unit 6

Required Readings

Michels, Ank. 2011. Innovations in democratic governance: how does citizen participation contribute to a better democracy?

International Review of Administrative Sciences 77(2): 275-293.
Adam Dahl, & Joe Soss. 2014. Neoliberalism for the Common Good? Public Value Governance and the Downsizing of Democracy

Public Administration Review 74(4): 496-504.
Lawrence R. Jacobs. 2014. The Contested Politics of Public Value.

Public Administration Review 74 (4): 480–494.
Bryer, Tom A. 2011. Online Public Engagement in the Obama Administration: Building a Democracy Bubble?

Policy and Internet 3(4): 1-22.

Unit 7

Required Readings

Brandsen, Taco and Victor Pestoff. 2006. “Co-production, the third sector and the delivery of public services: an introduction.”

Public Management Review. 8(4): 493-501. (read pages 493-497)
Karine Lavasseur. Co-Production and Accountability in Canada’s Child Care Services:  A Success Story or Cautionary Tale. CANADIAN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION / ADMINISTRATION PUBLIQUE DU CANADA, VOLUME 61, NO. 1 (MARCH/MARS 2018), PP. 26–44 Reproduced with permission of the author.
Kettl, Donald. 2010. Governance, contract management and public management. In Steven Osborne ed. The New Public Governance? Emerging perspectives on the theory and practice of public governance. London: Routledge. 239-254.
Stefanick, Lorna. 2009. “Alberta's Ombudsman: Following Responsibility in an Era of Outsourcing,”

In Provincial and Territorial Ombudsman Offices in Canada, Stewart Hyson, ed., Institute of Public Administration of Canada, Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Unit 8 Required Readings

Jreisat, Jamil. 2011. Administration of Developed Systems. In Globalism and Comparative Public Administration.  Boca Raton FL: CRC Press, pp. 169–194.
Ali Farazmand. 2009. Building Administrative Capacity for the Age of Rapid Globalization: A Modest Prescription for the Twenty-First Century. Public Administration Review, 69 (6): 1007-1020.

Public Administration Review, 69 (6): 1007-1020.
Radelet, Steven. 2016. “Governance and the Great Development Transformation.”

Governance: An International Journal of Policy Administration and Institutions. 29(1) : 9-11.
Cheung, Anthony B.L. 2013. "NPM in Asian countries." Tom Christensen and Per Laegreid. The Ashgate Research Companion to New Public Management. Ashgate, 131-144.

Unit 9 Required Readings

Coates, Ken. 2008. The Indian Act and the future of Aboriginal Governance in Canada.

A Research paper for the National Centre for First Nations Governance.
Ostroff, Joshua. 2016. Attawapiskat's Suicides Need More Than Superficial Solutions.

The Blog. Huffington Post Canada.
Timpson, Annis May. 2008. “Building an Aboriginal-Oriented Public Service in Nunavut.”

Paper presented at the Canadian Political Science Association AGM.
Sproule-Jones, Megan. 1996. "Crusading for the Forgotten: Dr. Peter Bryce, Public Health, and Prairie Native Residential Schools." Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 13(2), 199–224.

Unit 10

Required Readings

Shark, Alan R. 2015.

Privacy, Trust, and Future Challenges. In Technology and Public Management. New York: Taylor and Francis.
Norris, Pippa. 2000. The Worldwide Digital Divide: Information Poverty, the Internet and Development.  

Paper for the Annual Meeting of the Political Studies Association of the UK, London School of Economics and Political Science, 10-13 April 2000. Roundtable on The Future Role of New Media in Elections Wednesday 12th April 10.45-12.15.

Unit 11 Required Readings

Bryson, John M., Barbara C. Crosby and Laura Bloomberg. 2014. Public Value Governance: Moving Beyond Traditional Public Administration and the New Public Management

Public Administration Review, 74 (4): 445–456.
Farazmand, Ali. 2009. Building Administrative Capacity for the Age of Rapid Globalization: A modest prescription for the twenty-first Century.

Public Administration Review 69(6): 1007-1020.

Bibliography and Supplementary Materials

Bibliography and Supplementary Materials: These supplementary materials will be useful to you throughout the course.
Armstrong, James L. 1992. “Innovation in Public Management: Toward Partnerships.” Optimum 23(1): 17–26.
Aucoin, Peter. 1995. The New Public Management: Canada in Comparative Perspective. Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy.
Aucoin, Peter, and Mark Jarvis. 2004. “Results-Based Reporting: Smart Practices for Improving Public Accountability” (paper delivered at Smart Practices Toward Innovation in Public Management conference, University of British Columbia, June 15.
Bain, Lois, Mazlin Darsi, and Jackie Struthers. 2005. "Delivering Results Through Quality: The Ontario Public Service Reaps the Benefits of Its Quality Service Strategy." The Innovation Journal 10(2): 1-24. Available online: http://www.innovation.cc.
Boase, Joan P. 2001. “Globalization Forces and Social Policy Choices: Glass Half Full or Half Empty?” Canadian Public Administration 44(1): 110–118.
Borins, Sandford. 1995. “Public Sector Innovation: The Implications of New Forms of Organization and Work.” In, Managing incoherence : the coordination and empowerment conundrum edited by B. Guy Peters and Donald J. Savoie, 260–287. Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Management Development.
Box, Richard. 1999. "Running Government Like a Business." American Review of Public Administration 29(1): 19-43.
Canada. 1996. Deputy Minister’s Task Force on Public Service Values and Ethics. A Strong Foundation. Report. Ottawa: Privy Council Office.
Canadian Centre for Management Development. 1994. Continuous Learning: A CCMD Report. Ottawa: CCMD.
Charih, Mohamed, and Arthur Daniels., eds. 1997. New Public Management and Public Administration in Canada. Toronto: The Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC) Publishers.
Christensen, Tom. 2001. “Administrative Reform: Changing Leadership Roles?” Governance: An International Journal of Policy and Administration 14(4): 457–480.
Coleman, William, and Michael Atkinson. “Obstacles to Organizational Change: The Creation of the Canadian Space Agency.” Canadian Public Administration 36(2): 129–152.
Doer, Audrey. 1996. “Delivering Public Services Differently: Some Practical Issues.” Public Sector Management 7(2): 26–27.
This title is not presently available from the Athabasca University Library.
Doern, G. Bruce, Leslie Pal, and B. Tomlin, eds. 1996. Border Crossings: The internationalization of Canadian public policy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Drucker, Peter F. 1995. “Really Reinventing Government.” The Atlantic Monthly, (February): 49–61.
Dwivedi, O. P., and J. I. Gow. 1999. From Bureaucracy to Public Management: The Administrative Culture of the Government of Canada. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press.
Glor, Eleanor, Otto Brodtrick, and Jack Smith. 2000. “Some Thoughts On Definitions of Innovation.” The Innovation Journal.
Gow, James Iain. 1991. Innovations in the Public Service. Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Management Development.
This title is not presently available from the Athabasca University Library.
Harder, Peter. 1997. “Public Administration in Canada: New Ideas.” Speech to Rendez-vous 97, 14 July.
This title is not presently available from the Athabasca University Library.
Hodgetts, J. E. 1973. The Canadian Public Service:A Physiology of Government 1867-1970. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Ingstrup, Ole. 1995. Public Service Renewal: From Means To Ends. Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Management Development.
Inwood, Gregory. 1999. Understanding Canadian Public Administration: An Introduction to Theory and Practice. Toronto: Prentice-Hall.
Kernaghan, Kenneth. 1992. “Empowerment and Public Administration: Revolutionary Advance or Passing Fancy?” Canadian Public Administration 35(2): 194–214.
Kernaghan, Kenneth, Brian Marson, and Sandford Borins. 2000. The New Public Administration. Toronto: Institute of Public Administration of Canada.
Kernaghan, Kenneth, and David Siegel. 1999. Public Administration in Canada: A Text, 4th ed. Toronto: Nelson.
Langford, John. 1997. “Ethical Challenges of New Approaches to Service Delivery.” In Proceedings of the OECD Symposium on Ethics in the Public Sector: Challenges and Opportunities for OECD Countries, Paris, France, 36-50.

Please navigate to page 36 of this PDF file to see Langford's paper.
Langford, John. 2000. “Out Basket.” Public Sector Management 11(1): 30.
This title is not presently available from the Athabasca University Library.
Massé, Marcel. 1997. “Getting Government ‘Right’: The Challenges of Governing Canada.” In Expanding Our Political Horizons: Readings in Canadian Politics and Government, edited by James John Guy, 1–16. Toronto: Harcourt Brace Canada.
Mintzberg, Henry, and Jacques Bourgault. 2000. Managing Publicly. Toronto: Institute of Public Administration of Canada.
This title is not presently available from the Athabasca University Library.
Mylvaganam, Chandran, and Sandford Borins. 2004. If You Build It . . . Business, Government and Ontario's Electronic Toll Highway. Toronto: University of Toronto Centre for Public Management.
This title is not currently available in the Athabasca University Library.
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. 1994. “Partnership Resource Kit.” Toronto: Queen’s Printer.
This title is not presently available from the Athabasca University Library.
Osborne, David, and Ted Gaebler. 1992. Reinventing Government: How the Entrepreneurial Spirit is Transforming the Public Sector. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
Perry, James L. 2007. "Democracy and the New Public Service." The American Review of Public Administration 37.1: 3-16.
Peters, B. Guy. 1993. The Public Service, The Changing State and Governance, 7–17. Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Management Development.
Peters, B. Guy, and Donald Savoie. 1994. “Reinventing Osborne and Gaebler: Lessons from the Gore Commission.” Canadian Public Administration 37(2): 303–322.
Pollitt, Christopher. 1995. “Management Techniques for the Public Sector: Pulpit and Practice.” In Governance in a Changing Environment , edited by B. Guy Peters and Donald J. Savoie, 203–238. Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Management Development.
Privy Council Office. 1994. Getting Government Right. Ottawa: Queen’s Printer.
Sadler, Robert J. 2000. “Corporate Entrepreneurship in the Public Sector: The Dance of the Chameleon.” Australian Journal of Public Administration 59(2): 25–43.
Simeon, Richard. 1997. “Rethinking Government, Rethinking Federalism.” In New Public Management and Public Administration in Canada, edited by Mohamed Charih and Arthur Daniels. Toronto: The Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC) Publishers.
Sutherland, Sharon L. 1991. "The al-Mashat Affair: Administrative Accountability in Parliamentary Institutions." Canadian Public Administration 34.4 (Winter): 573-603.
Sutherland, Sharon L. 1991. "Responsible Government and Ministerial Responsibility: Every Reform Is Its Own Problem." Canadian Journal of Political Science 24.1: 91-120.
Online Resources
Wesson, Tom, and David Barrows. 2005. "Business Planning and the New Public Management: An Ontario Perspective." The Innovation Journal 10(2): 1-38.
Zussman, David, and Jak Jabes. 1989. The Vertical Solitude: Managing in the Public Sector. Halifax: Institute for research on Public Policy (IRPP).
Canada School for Public Service.
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The Innovation Journal.
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