Reinventing Context of

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Lecture 7

• Reinventing Context of
• Public Administration

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Guy Peters

• Six Old Chestnuts
• Apolitical civil service
• Hierarchy and rules
• Permanence and stability
• An institutionalized civil service
• Internal regulations
• Equality

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Alternative to GovernmentBy Guy Peters

• Flexible government
• less rules
• Market government
• competitiveness, entrepreneurial spirits
• Deregulated government
• Reduce internal rules
• Participative government
• Empower employees

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Reinventing Government Factors

• Change in demography
• Budget cut
• Change in administration
• New problems
• Change in existing environment
• Political pressure
• Increase in citizen demands

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Executive Agencies

• Executive Office of the President (EOP)
• National Security Council
• Office of Management and Budget
• Macro policy issues
• Executive Departments
• Lead by cabinet members
• Homeland Security, Labor, Transportation
• Independent agencies
• Public corporations US Postal Services
• Regulatory Commissions Federal Communications
  Commission and Securities Exchange Commission

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Reforming National Machinery of government

• The Brownlow Commission
• The first Hoover Commission
• The second Hoover Commission
• The Ash council
• The Grace Commission
• The National Performance Review

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Reinventing Government PrinciplesBy Osborne and
Gabler

• Catalytic Government Steering Rather Than Rowing
• Community-Owned Government Empowerment Rather
  Than Serving
• Competitive Government Injecting Competition
  into Service Delivery
• Mission-Driven Government Transforming
  Rule-Driven Organizations
• Result-Oriented Government Funding Outcomes,
  Not Inputs
• Customer-Driven Government Meeting the Needs of
  the Customer, Not the Bureaucracy
• Enterprising Government Earning Rather Than
  Spending
• Anticipatory Government Preventing Rather Than
  Cure
• Decentralized Government From Hierarchy to
  Participation and Teamwork
• Market-oriented Government Leveraging Change
  through the Market