PROVIDING EFFECT PUBLIC-SERVICES - POLITICAL CONDITIONS FOR GOVERNMENT MODERNIZATION

For 30 years reform of public administration has been discussed in ever new variations. Today deficits in controlling are in the limelight: new Public Management wants to combine bureaucratic control with controlling instruments for economic mechanisms. The political and administrative levels are neutralized by contract management; given operational goals and indicators permit controlling, more service orientation allows new attitudes and loyalities within public administration. Necessarily, tension between values of the market and those of the public sector will emerge.