Fudan-LSE Lecture Series No.58

Title: 

New Public Management Marketizers versus Neo-Weberian Modernizers? Institutional Configurations of Social Impact Bond Utilization among 18 OECD Countries

Speaker: 

Prof. Bin Chen, Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, Baruch College, The City University of New York

Host: 

Prof. Yijia Jing, IGPP, Fudan University

Time: 

12:00-13:20 (Beijing Time), June 13th

Venue: 

Room 805E, 8thFloor，West Sub-building of Guanghua Towers

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The Speaker：

Bin Chen is a professor in the Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, Baruch College, and a doctoral faculty at The Graduate Center, The City University of New York. His research spans collaborative governance in public policy implementation, government-nonprofit relations, regional networked governance, and comparative public administration and policy, with methodological interests on social network analysis, qualitative comparative analysis, and necessary condition analysis.

Abstract: 

Social Impact Bonds (SIBs), a New Public Management (NPM)-style commissioning model, contain elements of other reform framings, widening their appeal and potential for variation in differing reform contexts. This study implements a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), seeking configurations explaining SIB uptake across 18 OECD countries. The two high-utilization configurations produce an Anglo-American model of NPM marketizers and a European model of Neo-Weberian State (NWS) modernizers, whereas the four low-utilization configurations include exclusively NWS modernizers and maintainers, suggesting SIBs as a fertile case study of public management reform tools adapting and trajectories merging in differing national administrative cultures and contexts.