NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT

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NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT

• Professor Ivan Kopric
• Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb

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Changing models of public administration

• Classic (Weberian) model hierarchy,
  professionalism and political accountability
• New public management
• Good governance democratic and efficient public
  administration

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New Public Management measures and effects

• Structural
• With regard to personnel
• Functional
• Other

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Structural measures and effects

• Reduction (lean state privatisation, budget
  reduction, reduction of the level of social
  rights, etc.)
• Forms of private and third sector participation
  in public affairs (PPP, outsourcing, concessions,
  etc.)
• Loosening structural tights (fragmenting state
  agentification, decentralisation, greater
  autonomy of public sector organisations, etc.)
• Problems accountability, coordination, strategic
  policy, ethics, local self-government, costs

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Measures and effects with regard to personnel

• More mechanical measures (reducing the number,
  pays reduction, flexibilisation, private sector
  managers engagement, greater autonomy of public
  managers with regard to remuneration, pay and
  career system, etc.)
• Human potentials development (education,
  in-service training, organisational culture
  building, ethics, orientation towards results and
  the needs of citizens)
• Problems instability, insecurity, organisations
  as psychic prisons, unsuccessful organisations,
  consumerism, etc.

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Functional measures and effects

• Marketisation of the state public market
• Competitiveness
• Real prices
• Services of general economic interest
  (liberalisation and privatisation)
• Deregulation
• Debureaucratisation (removing procedural
  obstacles to private sector subjects and
  citizens management by results)
• New budgetary solutions internal and external
  audit, etc.

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Social consequences

• Reinvigorating capitalism (state failure)
• Crisis of social state poverty and lower level
  of social services, unemployment rate is
  increasing
• Democratic deficit weakening democratic
  legitimacy of the state
• Anomy (crime, social conflicts, disregarding
  legal regulations)
• Positive effects?

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Thank you!

• Professor Ivan Kopric
• Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb
• Mailto ivan.kopric_at_pravo.hr