NPM was only one of the “mega-trends” forecast by Hood in 1989, however. He also foresaw sustained efforts to reduce the size of governments and continued moves away from what he termed “the public bureaucracy state” Vincent Wright (1994a, 6) characterized this wider policy ferment as concerned with “reducing the size and reshaping the role of the central state . . . allocating resources and wealth differently, and . . . providing collective goods in a different fashion.”The popularity of NPM as a theme for recent changes has distorted understanding of public management adaptation, change, andreform in three important ways. P 108