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Although, over time, numerous articles and books have been published on New Public Management (NPM), it is still being investigated with a sense of great urgency, as its effects, whether positive or negative, have not yet been fully gauged and comprehended. Given the rather controversial nature of the phenomenon of interest, the purpose of this edited volume is to re-invigorate and revisit the ongoing debate on NPM by providing a fresh perspective and novel insights into how NPM-driven changes have been approached and, more importantly, the effects they have produced in the context of Norway. The current volume comprises seven contributions penned by scholars and experts from all over Norway with a keen interest in NPM. Five of them are geared towards assessing the effects of NPM-style reforms on the Norwegian public healthcare sector in general and nursing in particular, one deals with the impacts of NPM on Norwegian primary and lower secondary education, and one traces the relationship between NPM and the most influential management accounting innovations of the last few decades. It is our profound hope that the book will trigger fruitful discussions and broaden our understanding of NPM and its effects by providing lessons from the empirical evidence presented in the different chapters. Captivating and instructive, it will be of great interest for all readers keeping an eye on NPM, including but not limited to students and scholars of public administration, practitioners and policymakers.

NPM --- New Public Management --- Public health --- community --- city --- education --- public administration --- policy --- economy --- technology

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Depuis quelques années maintenant, nous avons pu observer des changements majeurs dans les modes de gouvernance des pouvoirs locaux en Wallonie. Ces changements ont amené les communes vers une gestion plus managériale. La crise des pouvoirs publics et le mécontentement de citoyens à l’égard des prestations administratives conduisent à adopter une forme de nouvelle gestion publique. Dans un monde très concurrentiel et exigeant, la société – mieux informée – attend davantage des institutions. 
A cet égard, l’introduction du Programme Stratégique Transversal (PST) est une opportunité, à condition de mener celui-ci de manière rigoureuse et de l’évaluer régulièrement.

new public management --- sociologie des organisations --- identité professionnelle --- administration communale --- programme stratégique transversal --- changement --- Sciences sociales & comportementales, psychologie > Sociologie & sciences sociales

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This open access book offers unique insight into how and where ideas and instruments of quantification have been adopted, and how they have come to matter. Rather than asking what quantification is, New Politics of Numbers explores what quantification does, its manifold consequences in multiple domains. It scrutinizes the power of numbers in terms of the changing relations between numbers and democracy, the politics of evidence, and dreams and schemes of bettering society. The book engages Foucault inspired studies of quantification and the economics of convention in a critical dialogue. In so doing, it provides a rich account of the plurality of possible ways in which numbers have come to govern, highlighting not only their disciplinary effects, but also the collective mobilization capacities quantification can offer. This book will be invaluable reading for academics and graduate students in a wide variety of disciplines, as well as policymakers interested in the opportunities and pitfalls of governance by numbers.

Political structure & processes --- Public administration --- Open Access --- quantification --- quantification practices --- Executive Politics --- Governance --- Numbers --- Evidence --- Democracy --- politics of evidence --- Foucault --- administrative capacity --- policy sectors --- economics of convention --- utopia --- new public management --- convention theory --- social criticism

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In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird ein differenziertes Bild der Folgen von „Bologna“, „Exzellenzinitiative“, Drittmittelwettbewerb und „New Public Management“ für die berufliche Identität von Professor*innen gezeichnet. Eine qualitative empirische Studie zeigt, dass die mit diesen Reformen verbundenen Leistungsbewertungen nicht nur Identitätsbedrohungen mit sich bringen müssen, sondern auch neue Möglichkeiten der Identitätsentfaltung bieten können. Der Fokus auf Reformerfahrung und -bewältigung von Professor*innen bietet eine wichtige Ergänzung anderer Analysen der Universitätsreformen. Die Autoren Melike Janßen ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Deutschen Zentrum für Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsforschung, Abteilung Forschungssystem und Wissenschaftsdynamik. Prof. Dr. Uwe Schimank ist Professor für Soziologie an der Universität Bremen im SOCIUM – Forschungszentrum Ungleichheit und Sozialpolitik. Ariadne Sondermann ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Bereich der Third Mission im Transfernetzwerk Soziale Innovation – s_inn an der Evangelischen Hochschule Rheinland-Westfalen-Lippe (EvH RWL).

Teacher training --- Higher & further education, tertiary education --- Education --- Adult education, continuous learning --- Open Access --- Professoren --- „new public management“ --- Hochschulreformen --- „Exzellenzinitiative“ --- Berufliche Identität --- Leistungsbewertungen --- Drittmittelwettbewerb --- Deutsche Universitäten --- „Bologna“ --- Teachers --- Education, Higher. --- Adult education. --- Maturation (Psychology). --- Teaching and Teacher Education. --- Higher Education. --- Adult Education. --- Personal Development. --- Training of. --- Growth (Psychology) --- Personal development --- Personal growth --- Developmental psychology --- Adults, Education of --- Education of adults --- Continuing education --- Open learning --- College students --- Higher education --- Postsecondary education --- Universities and colleges --- Teacher education --- Teachers, Training of

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Some social issues and practices have become dangerous areas for academics to research and write about. ‘Academic freedom’ is increasingly constrained, not just by long established ‘normal’ factors (territoriality, power differentials, competition, protectionism), but also by the increased significance of social media and the rise of identity politics (and activists who treat work which challenges their world view as abusive hate-speech). So extreme are these pressures that some institutions and even statutory bodies now adopt policies and practices which contravene relevant regulations and laws. This book seeks to draw attention to the limiting and damaging effects of academic ‘gagging’. The book, drawn from a special edition of Societies, offers an eclectic series of international articles which may annoy some people. The book challenges taken for granted mainstream assumptions and practices in a number of areas, including gender mainstreaming, social work education, child sexual abuse, the ethnic disaggregation of population groups, fatherhood and masculinity, the erosion of democratic legitimacy, the trap of victimhood and vulnerability, employment practices in universities, and the challenges presented by the widespread and deliberate suppression of scholarship and research. In an analytic postscript Laurent Dubreuil discusses the nature of identity politics and the manner in which its effects can be identified across the many topics covered in these challenging articles.

Humanities --- Social interaction --- Early Childhood Education and Care --- child sexual abuse --- prevention policies --- no touch --- teacher–child relationships --- male childcare workers --- stigma --- discrimination --- fear --- panopticon --- moral panic --- Brazilian academia --- interviewing for faculty positions --- Lattes CV --- meritocracy --- criminalisation --- harm --- law --- criminal justice --- freedom --- risk --- abuse --- liberal --- victim --- vulnerability --- critical thinking --- identity politics --- academic freedom --- free speech --- victimhood --- anti-discriminatory practice --- neoliberalism --- shadow management --- new public management --- ombudsman --- rule of law --- transparency --- higher education --- body journal --- Coronavirus --- corporal identity --- narratives --- pandemic --- parenthood --- clan --- academic taboo --- Sweden --- state --- postcolonialism --- research methods --- disparity --- disaggregating data --- Asian Americans --- disability --- mental health --- model minority myth --- free inquiry --- censorship --- conformity --- moral panics --- witch hunts --- heresy --- gender mainstreaming --- Lehrfreiheit --- university autonomy --- UNESCO --- Early Childhood Education and Care --- child sexual abuse --- prevention policies --- no touch --- teacher–child relationships --- male childcare workers --- stigma --- discrimination --- fear --- panopticon --- moral panic --- Brazilian academia --- interviewing for faculty positions --- Lattes CV --- meritocracy --- criminalisation --- harm --- law --- criminal justice --- freedom --- risk --- abuse --- liberal --- victim --- vulnerability --- critical thinking --- identity politics --- academic freedom --- free speech --- victimhood --- anti-discriminatory practice --- neoliberalism --- shadow management --- new public management --- ombudsman --- rule of law --- transparency --- higher education --- body journal --- Coronavirus --- corporal identity --- narratives --- pandemic --- parenthood --- clan --- academic taboo --- Sweden --- state --- postcolonialism --- research methods --- disparity --- disaggregating data --- Asian Americans --- disability --- mental health --- model minority myth --- free inquiry --- censorship --- conformity --- moral panics --- witch hunts --- heresy --- gender mainstreaming --- Lehrfreiheit --- university autonomy --- UNESCO