Original scientific paper
Danish Model of The New Public Management – Can It Serve as a Role Model to Croatia
Romea Manojlović
orcid.org/0000-0002-0292-0180
; (assistant at the Chair of Administrative Science, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb)
Abstract
After a short overview of the basic theoretical issues and development of the new public management doctrine, the author proceeds with an analysis of the Danish public administration reform. In 1983, Denmark faced a deep economic crisis and the then new Government based its programme of public sector reform on the principles of the new public management. Nowadays, as a country with a stable economy, Denmark has turned to the doctrine of good governance. The paper contains a detailed analysis of individual new public management measures (performance contracts, privatisation, contracting-out, deregulation) used in Denmark as well as of the effects they produced. There is a separate analysis of the values characterising Danish public administration and a debate whether the implementation of the new public management has changed them. Basic characteristics of the Danish new public management model are identified together with the differences form the best-known British model. The author elaborates the lessons Croatia may learn from Danish experience
Keywords
new public management; Denmark; performance contracts; privatisation; contracting out; deregulation; values
Hrčak ID:
135287
URI
Publication date:
7.12.2010.
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