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Vol. 11 No. 1 (2012)
PhD student papers

Citizens’ Interest Index: What can act as a benchmark for the results of the New Public Management reforms?

Published:
2012-06-18
DOI Linkhttps://doi.org/10.21845/comp/2012/1/8
Author
Miklos Rosta
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Keywords
New Public Management institutional economics public choice theory Citizens’ Interest Index
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Rosta, M. (2012). Citizens’ Interest Index: What can act as a benchmark for the results of the New Public Management reforms?. Competitio, 11(1), 117-131. https://doi.org/10.21845/comp/2012/1/8
Abstract

The aim of the study is to suggest an adequate indicator to describe comprehensively the efficiency of New Public Management (NPM) at a macro level by using the economic roots of NPM. The scientific community has not yet found a comprehensive indicator to measure the efficiency of the given school; however NPM is at the stage of its lifecycle when these researches really do need to be conducted. Both the political-theoretical and the economic roots of NPM are closely connected to public choice theory; this theory thus provides the bases of the model for creating the new indicator. In the article we do not only introduce the created composite index at an abstract level, but also present its formulation and methodological background.

Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) classifications: H83, D70, D23

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