WHO SAID PRODUCTION WAS SIMPLE - DELINEATING THE PUBLIC PRODUCTION PROCESS

This is a response to Robert Gregory's discussion of the author's arti cle 'Towards a New Public Management Model', AJPA 52(2). It argues tha t Gregory has misunderstood she rationale of the author's 'public prod uction process' model. He misrepresents the model as simplistic and as understating the complexities of politics in public administration. A s a result, the potential promise of Gregory's alternative conception is inadequately realised.