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The Complex Roots of Deprofessionalization: A Case Study of New Public Management

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  • Wennström, Johan

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While it might appear to be self-evident that the trend toward New Public Management (NPM) in the public administration systems of many Western countries is an outgrowth of neo-liberalism, the case of Swedish education suggests that policies can have widely different and counterintuitive sources. Ideas on teaching and education from both the left and right of the political spectrum paved the way for NPM in the Swedish school system. Unless political actors on the left acknowledge the shared responsibility for the rise of NPM it will not be possible to rectify and amend the shortcomings of such arrangements in schools and other public services.

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  • Wennström, Johan, 2015. "The Complex Roots of Deprofessionalization: A Case Study of New Public Management," Working Paper Series 1087, Research Institute of Industrial Economics, revised 11 Aug 2016.
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    • B24 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - Socialist; Marxist; Scraffian
    • H83 - Public Economics - - Miscellaneous Issues - - - Public Administration
    • I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General

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