NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT Professor Ivan Koprić Faculty of Law, University

NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT Professor Ivan Koprić Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb

Changing models of public administration Classic (Weberian) model: hierarchy, professionalism and political accountability New public management Good governance: democratic and efficient public administration

New Public Management: measures and effects a) b) c) d) Structural With regard to personnel Functional Other

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

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, inservice training, organisational culture building, ethics, orientation towards results and the needs of citizens) Problems: instability, insecurity, organisations as psychic prisons, unsuccessful organisations, consumerism, etc.

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.

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?

Thank you! Professor Ivan Koprić Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb Mailto: [email protected]