The rst practices of New Public Management emerged in
thKingdom under the leadership of Prime Minister Margaret
Th Thatcher played the functional role of !policy
entrepreneur" o#cial role of prime minister Thatcher dro$e changes
in pubmanagement policy in such areas as organi%ational
methodser$ice& labor relations& e'penditure planning&
nancial man
audit& e$aluation& and procurement Thatcher(s
successor& )o+ept public management policy on the agenda
of the ,onsego$ernment& leading to the implementation of the
Ne't -tep.nitiati$e Mayor also launched the programs of the
,iti%ens .nitiati$e& ,ompeting for /uality& 0esource
1ccounting and Band the Pri$ate 2inance .nitiati$e
1 term was coined in the late 3456s to denote a new 7orenewed8
stress on the importance of management and9production engineering:
in public ser$ice deli$ery& whiclin+ed to doctrines of economic
rationalism ;uring thistimeframe public management became an acti$e
area ma+ing in numerous other countries& notably in New =e
1ustralia& and -weden .n the 3446s& public managemema*or
item on President ,linton:s agenda >arly policy of the ,linton
administration included launching the NaPartnership and signing
into law the ?o$ernment Perfoand 0esults 1ct
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The term New Public Management 7NPM8 e'pressidea that the
cumulati$e @ow of policy decisions opast twenty years has amounted
to a substantial the go$ernance and management of the !state sethe
United Kingdom& New
=ealand& 1ustralia& -candina$ia& and North
1meribenign interpretation is that these decisions
ha$edefensible& if imperfect& response to policy
proble Those problems as well as their solutions
wereformulated within the policy
