Investigating New Public Management Implementation in Lebanon: Ideas and Realities
This paper is an exploratory study that investigates the status of New Public Management (NPM) and the obstacles to its implementation within the Republic of Lebanon. The study employs a qualitative approach that examines two complementary data sources. The first data source is obtained from an extensive review of documents related to new public management that are available in the public domain such as policy initiatives and governmental projects. The second data source is obtained from in-depth semistructured interviews with 20 public managers. The data collected is analyzed, using an iterative thematic content analysis. The findings suggest that the main obstacles that have inhibited the implementation of new public management in most public agencies in Lebanon include: the politicization of administration in the public sector, the lack of stability in the country, the non-targeted, inconsistent and insufficient training, institutional dysfunctions and organizational challenges, the absence of a country specific applicable model of public management and the unsystematic and non-institutionalized link between concerned international organizations and the Lebanese public agencies. This research is significant as it provides a foundation for the institutions practices to improve the design and implementation of new public management in the country. This research not only contributes to the relevant literature but also provides policy recommendations needed to respond to the recurrent calls for administrative reforms in the Arab world.
NPM Lebanon Developing countries Politics Bureaucracy
Hiba Khodr
Political Studies and Public Administration Department, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, 1107-2020
国际会议
2012 International Conference on Public Administration(8th)(2012年公共管理国际会议 ICPA)
印度海德拉巴
英文
841-848
2012-10-25（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）