2. Do we make government efficient
or use market mechanism for the
solution of welfare state?
3. Changing models of public
administration
Classic (Weberian) model: hierarchy,
professionalism and political
accountability
New public management
Good governance: democratic and
efficient public administration
5. 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
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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?
