On similar lines, it might be argued that new public management has been adopted in some contexts toward off the new right agenda for privatization and bureauide and in other countries as the first step towards realizing that agenda. Much of new public management is built on the idea of homeostatic control that is the clarification of goals and missions in advance, and then building the accountability systems in relation to those preset goals. But if new public management has itself been adopted for diametrically opposite reasons in different contexts, it may, ironically, be another example of the common situation in politics in which it is far easier to settle on particular measures than on general or basic objectives. That too many suggest that we should be cautious about assuming that public-sector accounting is likely to enter a new age of global uniformity, at least in the sense of the wider public management context within which if operates.