2. Introduction
• Many concepts in public sector innovation
came from a reform movement known as “New
Public Management” or “Reinventing
Government”
• Most students of governmental reform
credit for beginning this movement to Margaret
Thatcher who came to office in 1979 in Great
Britain
3. • For others the challenge outmoded
bureaucracies and bring them into the
information age
• In some countries this movement has been
called reinventing government
• To other countries, it is referred to as building
state capacity or modernization of the State
• To some countries this is named New Public
Management
4. • For some countries government reforms
and innovations involves the reform of the
old bureaucracies in the context of a
newly democratic state.
• For other countries this entails an all out
fight against corruption
5. • the reform aim to increase the
efficiency and effectiveness of
public action, to reduce costs
and put an end to the supposed
power of bureaucracies
6. • Government reforms are not easy
• It disrupts established relationships and
behavior
• World’s nation engaged in serious efforts
to reform their government and inject a
culture of innovation into their
government bureaucracies
7. •
* American governmental reform was largely due
to public dissatisfaction with government
* European Union was mandated to reform due to
its vision & mission
* Former Soviet Bloc administrative reform went
hand in hand with democratization and political
reform
* Latin America was repeated economic crises the
failure of 'primera generacion' of reforms to
achieve economic stability
8. • Survey conducted in 1999 found that during the
last two decades:
• 40 % of the world's 123 countries had at least
one major reform movement
• 15 % had some public management reforms but
no national level initiatives
• 22 % of the world's largest countries had 2 or
more reform movements.
• Most of the major latin american countries have
had one major reform especially with
'modernization of the state'
9. Two Phases:
1. 1980’s – Government concentrated on
economic liberalization and on privatization of
state owned industries
2. 1990’s – focus on the administrative reform
of core state functions and the building of state
capacity
10. A. Malaysia - Asia
B. France - Europe
C. Liberia - Africa
D. Mexico - Latin America
12. • Administrative Reforms
• Creation of a development administration
• Improvement of government's education and
training program
• Strengthening of professional competence of the
civil service
• Performance Appraisal
• Privatization
• Information Technology
16. 'A New Era of Democracy‘
Today, we wholeheartedly
embrace this change. We
recognize that this change is not
for the sake of change, but a
fundamental break with the past, ...
Corruption erodes faith in
government because of the
mismanagement and
misapplication of public
resources,...corruption is a national
cancer. under my administration
corruption is declared as 'public
enemy number one'. January 6, 2006
17. • Reform in the executive authority
• Restructuring of the national security
• Participatory government
• Civil service reform
• Downsizing and rightsizing the civil service
• Judiciary reform
• Constitutional reform
19. • Good governance
• Rule of law
• transparency
• accountability
• small and effective bureaucracy
• Peoples' participation
• Citizen’s Charter
• Qualified staff and personnel
• Streamline bureaucracy
• Regulatory reform
20. “ one of the fundamental ingredients of the new
governance is good government. A
government close to society, always ready to
listen to it; a government fully respectful of
legality, honest, transparent and efficient; but
above all, a government conscious of its
mission of promoting human and social
development as the basis for attaining a more
just and prosperous society”
President Vicente Fox of Mexico
2000-2006
21. As Obama often
says – “ a new era
of reform where
there will be a
progressive
mobilization to keep
the pressure on
and overcome
entrenched
interests” . . .
22. • Dr. Elaine C. Karmarck
Government Innovation
Ash Institute for Democratic Governance & Innovation
J.F.K SG., Harvard University November 2003
• Zifack, 1994
• Kickert, 2000
• Pollitt and Bouckaert, 2000
• Fauroux, Spitz, 2000
• Centre de recherches politiques de la sorbomue
(CPRS), University of Paris1/ CNRS
Dreyfus, FRtrancois, 2008
