New Public Governance: A Regime-Centered Perspective

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A book surfacing on the ‘new public governance’ (NPG) debate attracts attention precisely because NPG is an emerging concept of governance in the field of public policy and administration.  Rising next and above the level of new public management (NPM), NPG assumes various tags:  a theory of governance, a movement, a fundamental framework, a paradigm shift, and quite historically so, a leadership course in the ‘new curriculum’.  In effect, the work of Morgan and Cook triangulates the new theory with applied research and with lessons from the field making it a veritable corpus of knowledge.