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31 Law Theory & Prac. 1 (2014)

handle is hein.journals/ltyape31 and id is 1 raw text is: aktuelna tema UDK: 347.736 Ivan Petrovij* BIBLID: 0352-3713 (2014); 31, (1-3): 1-16 ORIGINALNI NAUCNI RAD PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM ACCORDING TO THE NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT MODEL ABSTRACT: During the last 30 years or even more many countries imple- mented certain programs in order to transform the public sector represen- ting a consequence of generating economic- financial and fiscal pressures. In these countries various initiatives have successively been driven based on liberal principles of the market economy, mainly motivated by similar reasons with a cumulative effect to realize the development goals of the new global environment. A number of these initiatives are based on the same assumptions, so we can talk about the reforms of programs being more or less coherent in their content. One of such programs is the New Public Management (New Public Management, NPM), which was, in the conceptual sense, initiated in the UK and other countries of the Anglo- Saxon tradition in early 1980s. Although in practical terms a particular manifestation of this model was, as the nucleus, firstly widespread through New Zealand and Australia and later through the Scandinavian countries, those reflections were very extensive, and acquired the form of a paradigm for contemporary changes in the sphere of public sector governance in many continental countries where they experienced an empirical verifica- tion. Key words: public sector; liberalization, a model of reform, new public management, Anglo-Saxon tradition, continental systems. This work can begin by saying that one of the constants of today's global world is expressed through a large number of top-down initiatives aiming * APhD counsellor at the Provincial Secretariat for Internatinal Cooperation and Local Government, Novi Sad; e-mail: ivan.petrovic.ns@gmail.com 1