ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the political-administrative design of the movement in the Westminster systems that came to called New Public Management (NPM) (Hood 1991). A major driving force behind NPM, if not the major force, was the effort to establish a new structure to the relationship between ministers of the government of the day and the permanent professional public service, especially the senior public service executive cadre (Aucoin 1990). This chapter is focused on the Westminster systems as the locale where NPM first came to the fore.
