Implementation Guidelines of the New Public Management. Cases of Romania and Sweden

AbstractGlobal transformations throughout the past decades impose that the public sector should act more efficiently in service of the citizen; therefore, public management has borrowed a series of organizational and functional principles from the private sector management. These public management reforms aim at depoliticization, debureaucratisation and improvement of the public sector, through the processes of liberalization, deregulation and decentralization of state institutions and state authority. A new pattern of public sector coordination, named the new public management, takes shape (NPM)