38 ◾ Logics of Legitimacy
1989; Gutmann and ompson 1997; Hart 1984; Rohr 1989; Terry 1995). is
emphasis was necessary if claiming an autonomous role released in large part from
hierarchical oversight from the executive and legislative branches; oversight must
come from within the eld and the individual administrator.
The Reinventing Era
However, the New Public Administration and the Refounding attempts were not
the only reform movements afoot in the last decades of the twentieth century. In the
technically oriented camp, an even more prevalent call was being made for greater
scientic rigor and more business- like operations, culminating in the New Public
Management theoretical movement of the late 1980s and 1990s and the correspond-
ing ...