Beyond New Public Governance

Abstract

This article proposes a value-based model for performance management, governance, and public service leadership development. There are three distinguishing features of this model. First, the model is the product of considerable research and curricular “field-testing” with academic partners in the United States, China, Vietnam, and Japan. Second, the model deliberately integrates an emphasis on values, leadership, management, and governance into an organic framework that addresses many of the criticisms that have been made of New Public Management. Third, the model incorporates differences in the values and structures of authority among political settings, thus making it applicable across a wide variety of regimes.