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Continental lawyers and old-fashioned bureaucrats for bad reasons. They were
only too willing to see it go, and they jumped at possibilities, like the Neo-Weberian
State (NWS), to be modern yet not to give up their organizational principles. (This is
why it is so important to see the post-post-NPM quality of the NWS, which is neither
pre-NPM nor post-NPM in the sense of anti-NPM, and to take the "neo"-elements
seriously.)
Before this background, the plain and empiricially observable fact that NPM simply
does not work, even by its own strict set of criteria that it does not deliver, that it
does not create greater business efficiency, let alone state effectiveness, that it is
expensive, disruptive, and in the end useless, that it is heavily ideological, overly
simple, diametrically opposed to economic growth and especially development, and
politically charged by a specific perspective, that of neo-liberalism could have the
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