Polititics, democracy and technics in public management: the case of new public management
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public management, democracy, politics, political philosophy and theory, technical rationalityAbstract
The activity of public management is usually thought of as antithetical both to politics and political theory/philosophy. The so-called New
Public Management theory illustrates how public management theories can rest on a discourse of technical and economic rationality in order to hide its political content and to distance it from public discussion. By arguing that technique needs politics, we will reveal the political ideology underlying its management premises. Finally, we defend that public management theories should always be assessed from the normative
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