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PUBLIC GOVERNANCE AND TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT PUBLIC MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE Working Party of Senior Budget Officials HAND-OUT BUILDING ON BASICS OECD VALUE FOR MONEY STUDY, FINAL REPORT Sections from Chapter 1 -- Introduction on new trends in public administration th 7 Annual Meeting on PERFORMANCE RESULTS 0ECD Conference Centre, Paris 9-10 November 2011 (English Text Only) BUILDING ON BASICS OECD VALUE FOR MONEY STUDY, FINAL REPORT Sections from chapter 1 Introduction on new trends in public administration: 1. Three periods of public administration 2. Problems with New Public Management 3. Building on Basics 1. Three periods of public administration 1. In many OECD countries, and in particular in the Value for Money countries, three periods of public administration reforms can be distinguished since the 80ies of the previous century: those of receding government (1980-1990), New Public Management (1990- 2005), and the current period (from 2005). 2. The period of receding government is commonly associated with the Reagan administration in the USA and the Thatcher Cabinet in the UK, but there were many governments in other OECD countries that subscribed to similar ideas and programmes. Much emphasis was put on the reduction of government tasks, particularly the tasks of central government by deregulation, privatisation, decentralisation, expenditure reduction and fiscal alleviation. The idea was that private sector growth and prosperity was hampered by too high tax and expenditure levels. A popu