Governance innovation as social imaginaries: challenges of post-NPM
从社会想象视角批判性讨论后新公共管理治理创新，指出其合法性主要源于妖魔化新公共管理，建议融合新公共管理元素以构建未来整体治理模型。
The effects of NPM have been criticized for decades and we are now seeing how alternative, post-NPM, governance innovations emerge.What joins these innovations is the critique against NPM and the ambition to provide new ways of governing public organizations.From a critical stance, we engage in a discussion of governance innovations from the perspective of social imaginaries and analyse post-NPM from dystopian and utopian viewpoints.We argue that the main legitimacy for post-NPM lies in it demonizing NPM, whereas a more fruitful way forward would entail incorporating elements of NPM to create a holistic governance model for the future.