New Public Management Challenges för the Administrative Procedure Act (2017:900)

The purpose of this thesis is to, as a case study, investigate the relationship between challenges related to New Public Management and the new Administrative Procedure Act that was enacted in 2017. The question reads: Can the guiding principles of the Administrative Procedure Act (2017:900) according to Prop. 2016/17: 180 be considered to take into account challenges arising from the introduction of New Public Management reforms in the public sector? The material consists of Prop. 2016/17:180 and it is analyzed based on the qualitative text analysis method. The analysis tool is a set of questions based on the challenges that New Public Management reforms bring. Conclusions: The guiding principles are largely adapted to the challenges that New Public Management Reforms bring about. Above all, this applies with the strengthening of the principle of legality (one of the three), which significantly influences the other two