신공공경영론의 비판적 고찰: 쟁점과 한계

This paper explores the doctrinal content of the group of ideas known as ‘New Public Management'. In particular, this paper focuses on issues and limitations of NPM paradigm. The rise of NPM over the past 20 years is one of the most striking international trends in public administration. According to this study, underlying concepts of NPM have appeared in the most discussions of NPM such as; 1. hands on professional management in the public sector, 2. shift to disaggregation of unit in the public sector, 3. shift to greater competition in the public sector, 4. explicit standards and measures of performance, 5. stress on a reward by result, 6. stress on entrepreneurship in private-sector styles of management practice. But NPM has been most commonly criticized in term of a chaimed contradiction between ‘equity' and ‘efficiency'. Most of criticisms of NPM differs in opinion such as: 1. criticism of both bureaucracy and NPM, 2. stress on a distinctiveness of public sector, 3. stress on civic participation in public sector, 4. stress on a genuine innovation of public sector which should fit in civic needs. In Korea, the strong government renovation has been begun since 1998 and has an effect on all public sectors. But there are few studies which examine the issues and limitations of NPM by a remark of public sector's distinctiveness in korea. Now, we should try to a diversified, empirical research of NPM in classification by public sector.