Abstract:

The purpose of this study is to examine the general justifications of the legal regulations enacted within scope of the reforms in public administration between the years of 2002-2014, by implementing content analysis in terms of main principles of New Public Management (NPM) approach. According to the results from the content analysis, it has been founded that the reforms of which the general frame was determined with the Fundamental Law Draft for the Public Administration, are coherent with the main principles of NPM. Efficiency and productivity were mentioned in a great majority of the general justifications, and transparency, accountability and participation in public administration were emphasized. The advantages of scale-economy, publicprivate partnership, and various service-provision alternatives were put emphasis for cost-reduction. Establishment of organized structures in more horizontal, flexible, decentralized and functional units was aimed for organizational structures. It was intended that the public organizations were restored in a control structure which would be result-oriented and also effected by citizens’ preferences instead of the process-oriented control structure. Furthermore, it has been founded that the catalyst state concept was driven forward by separating the public-policy determining and public-service providing units from each other, and that a new structure was intended to be established, which would be based on performance and grounded on contracting

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