ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates how the popular reinvention literature can be analyzed with the several ideas, considering that the re-inventing government and the National Performance Review, as well as the more general terms such as the New Public Management and New Managerialism, have gained much currency in public administration. Public administration is a subject of human inquiry with ancient roots. The study and systematic development of public administration in America, however, is scarcely more than a century-old phenomenon. New insights or new theories of public administration are constructed to reflect new aspects of changing administrative practice. The reaction—the first great theoretical foundation stone of American public administration—was a reform movement that appealed for efficiency and honesty in government. Theorizing public administration more consciously in a political democratic framework is the main thrust of Idea Three, which has been gaining more and more attention in the field.
