Encyklopedia Administracji Publicznej MW Pivot Skin

PUBLIC MANAGEMENT – sub-discipline of management sciences. The subject of its interest are actors, structures, processes, mechanisms and resources related to the creation and implementation of → public policies and solving collective problems. On the basis of p.m. four basic theoretical and methodological orientations are visible: 1. political (use of power and control over resources to achieve public goals); 2. legal (norms and rules for coordinating collective actions); 3. economic (efficiency and effectiveness of public activities); 4. managerial (tools and techniques for managing public affairs). P.m. as a scientific sub-discipline is characterized by theoretical and methodological pluralism that constitute its research attractiveness, which is also a source of problems with ensuring its conceptual identity and the clarity of its boundaries. One should look for the conceptual rooting of p.m. in the theoretical traditions related to scientific management, the doctrine of the rule of law, the model of classic administration, New Public Management, public co-management and neoweberism (→ model of bureaucracy, New Public Management) [ S. Mazur ].

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