Furthermore, as service providers become more decentralised from centrally
determined policy making, network benefits become more stretched with a consequent
tendency to instability and greater transactions costs. Thus, NPG appears to be the
human face of NPM that also suffers from a degree of abstraction through, at times, its
proponents’ enthusiastic adoption of network governance. The possibility of
post-bureaucracy being enabled in an NPG environment then falls at the fence of
the need for bureaucratic safeguards from the legacy of NPM and the need for
standardisation in public services and the regularity of their production.