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100			_aBox, Richard C.
245			_aRunning government like a business: implications for public administration theory and practice
260			_c1999
300			_ap.19-43
362			_aMar
520			_aThe public sector faces increasing demands to run government like a business, importing private-sector concepts such as entrepreneurism, privatization, treating the citizen like a "customer," and management techniques derived from the production process. The idea that government should mimic the market is not new in American public administration, but the current situation is particularly intense. The new public management seeks to emphasize efficient, instrumental implementation of policies, removing substantive policy questions from the administraive realm. This revival of the politics-administration dichotomy threatens core public-sector values of citizen self-governance and the administrator as servant of the public interest. The article examines the political culture that encourages expansion of market-like practices in the American public sector, explores the issues of the purpose and scope of government and the role of the public-service practitioner, and offers a framework for the study and practice of public administration based on citizenship and public service. - Reproduced
650			_aPublic administration
773			_aAmerican Review of Public Administration
909			_a40694
999			_c40694 _d40694