Party politics
Some commentators explain PPA’s demise in rather similar terms to the predator theorists of the dinosaurs’ extinction. The notion is that the old structure has been subverted by the development of “New Right” interests who stand to benefit in various ways from dismantling the PPA model
At one level, the demise of traditional PPA is often attributed to the advent of New right government in the 1980s and particularly to the influence of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, who aimed to roll back big government and state-led egalitarianism and welfarism, and to remould what was left of the public sector in the image of private business. If New Public Management was sparked by such figures, we would expect its development to be most marked in countries which were governed by right-wing parties during the 1980s.