Convergence: The Useful Myth?

By C. Pollitt. 2001

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Subfields: Development, Political Science and International Relations, Public Administration

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In Development

1. L. Bordogna
2. J. V. Helden
3. Ditte-Lene Sørensen
4. Torben Jørgensen
5. Shahzad Uddin
6. S. Bach
7. C. Radaelli

In Political Science and International Relations

1. L. Bordogna
2. Noel Hyndman
3. J. V. Helden
4. Ditte-Lene Sørensen
5. O. Petersen
6. Torben Jørgensen
7. Shahzad Uddin
8. S. Bach

In Public Administration

1. L. Bordogna
2. Noel Hyndman
3. J. V. Helden
4. Ditte-Lene Sørensen
5. Koen Verhoest
6. Torben Jørgensen
7. Shahzad Uddin
8. S. Bach

Citations in the corpus

• Public sector management accounting in emerging economies: A literature review (2016, background): “In contrast, NPM rests on ‘market-based controls’ to achieve efficiency, effectiveness and cost savings and streamline the public sector (Hood, 1991; Pollitt, 2001).”
• Diffusion without convergence: how political context shapes the adoption of regulatory impact assessment (2005, background): “Diffusion at the level of ‘talk’ has not yielded convergence in ‘actions’ and ‘results’ – to use the classic terms suggested by Brunsson (1989) and, more recently, Pollitt (2001) .”
• Varieties of new public management or alternative models? The reform of public service employment relations in industrialized democracies (2011, background): “The reasons for its diffusion have been attributed to either rational choices carried out by policy makers in response to fiscal crisis or a form of institutional isomorphism (Pollitt 2001; Barzelay and Gallego 2006).”
• How Do Governments Support the Development of Public Private Partnerships? Measuring and Comparing PPP Governmental Support in 20 European Countries (2015, background): “Although the ‘official rhetoric’ about PPPs may reflect internationally proclaimed doctrines, the policies, regulation and supporting arrangements chosen and the behaviour of politicians and administrators may differ (Pollitt, 2001).”
• The translation and sedimentation of accounting reforms. A comparison of the UK, Austrian and Italian experiences (2014, background): “However, despite the tendency for homogenisation and convergence of public-sector reforms across countries, changes are often argued, interpreted and carried out differently depending on the jurisdiction (Knill, 2001; Pollitt, 2001; Pollitt and Bouckaert, 2011).”
• Codes of Good Governance (2012, background): “Convergence may be just a useful myth, as Pollitt (2001) argued regarding New Public Management.”