<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The paper tries to provide one specific input for future evidence-based public policies in CEE. It discusses the role of New Public Management (NPM) in our region, with the focus on the new CEE EU members and their experience. NPM was, with very limited success, used in many developed countries at the end of last century. It was also part of several reforms, at least in some CEE countries. It may be "misused" for simple cost-cutting, but it may also be well used for better efficiency in the near future of public finance crises. The issue - our core question - is very simple: How to understand: "Adieu NPM"?</p></abstract>

The paper tries to provide one specific input for future evidence-based public policies in CEE. It discusses the role of New Public Management (NPM) in our region, with the focus on the new CEE EU members and their experience. NPM was, with very limited success, used in many developed countries at the end of last century. It was also part of several reforms, at least in some CEE countries. It may be "misused" for simple cost-cutting, but it may also be well used for better efficiency in the near future of public finance crises. The issue - our core question - is very simple: How to understand: "Adieu NPM"?

New Public Management and its Implementation in CEE: What Do we Know and where Do we Go?

Faculty of Economics, University of Matej Bel, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia

NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy

The paper tries to provide one specific input for future evidence-based public policies in CEE. It discusses the role of New Public Management (NPM) in our...

New Public Management and its Implementation in CEE: What Do we Know and where Do we Go?

Published Online: Jul 21, 2010

Page range: 31 - 52

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10110-010-0002-0

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