The New Public Governance? 1

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1 This article is a revised version of the keynote address to the annual conference of the Finnish Association of Public Administration in Rovaneimi in December 2005. The author also acknowledges the useful and insightful comment of both Brint Milward and Erik-Hans Klijn on an earlier draft of this final version. Responsibility for the contents lies with the author alone, however, as always. 2 Brint Milward has made the point to me in a personal communication that there is an inevitable national variance in the nature of Public Administration, and of the other modes. The ‘politics – administration’ split, for example, is perhaps a particularly…