<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Provision of services by public sector is a concept, which has been implemented for many decades in various forms of economic arrangement. Public sector policies and public services have significant impact on almost all spheres of life including agriculture. Throughout the history, there were times with smaller and bigger importance of public sector within the economy. The conditions of public sector always depend on the actual trend applied in the sphere of public administration and public management. After the period of New Public Management accompanied by leaning away from the “public” concept, a return to stronger statehood and more intensive public sector can be seen. There are several reasons for such development, which are also called megatrends. Urbanization, demography and social changes, climate changes and development of technology belong to the most intensive ones. The presented review paper deals with the description of the mentioned trends and provides a reflexion on their influence on the public sector and provision of public services in particular.</p></abstract>

Provision of services by public sector is a concept, which has been implemented for many decades in various forms of economic arrangement. Public sector policies and public services have significant impact on almost all spheres of life including agriculture. Throughout the history, there were times with smaller and bigger importance of public sector within the economy. The conditions of public sector always depend on the actual trend applied in the sphere of public administration and public management. After the period of New Public Management accompanied by leaning away from the “public” concept, a return to stronger statehood and more intensive public sector can be seen. There are several reasons for such development, which are also called megatrends. Urbanization, demography and social changes, climate changes and development of technology belong to the most intensive ones. The presented review paper deals with the description of the mentioned trends and provides a reflexion on their influence on the public sector and provision of public services in particular.

Provision of Public Services in the Light of Current Global Trends

Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra

EU agrarian Law

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Provision of services by public sector is a concept, which has been implemented for many decades in various forms of economic arrangement. Public sector...

Provision of Public Services in the Light of Current Global Trends

Published Online: Dec 31, 2018

Page range: 9 - 14

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/eual-2018-0007

Keywords
public sector, public services, megatrends

© 2018 Monika Bumbalová, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Provision of Public Services in the Light of Current Global Trends

Published Online: Dec 31, 2018

Page range: 9 - 14

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/eual-2018-0007

Keywordspublic sector, public services, megatrends

© 2018 Monika Bumbalová, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
public sector, public services, megatrends