The New Public Management: Challenging the Boundaries of the Management vs. Administration Debate

Linda Kaboolian, Harvard University eform movements in the public sector, codiR fied as the Public Management by cholars, provide an opportunity for the adherents of public administration and of public management to engage each other. This symposium presents the reactions of well-known scholars with different perspectives on the theoretical and empirical opportunities and challenges presented by the New Public Management. All of the authors have published important and lengthy works elsewhere that more fully elucidate their positions on issues that divide the school of public management from that of public administration.'The unique quality of the symposium is that these scholars address one another in a conversation disciplined by focus on a specific topic.