Abstract:

This study focuses on the New Public Governance model (NPG), which emerged with the claim of a new paradigm in the field of public administration and emphasizes cooperative values such as co-production rather than competition. Focusing on the aim of making public administrations more sensitive in the face of the complex and wicked problems of the 21st century, the NPG model differs markedly from the previous paradigms in terms of its theoretical principles and arguments. However, besides the theoretical dimension of the paradigm shift claim, it also has a practical dimension. In this study, the NPG practices are evaluated by using the case of US public administration, the relationship between the data related to the practices and the theoretical argument and expectations are evaluated and systematic literature review method is used for this. The findings show that the practical dimension of the paradigm shift claim is not as strong as the theoretical dimension and that some expectations, especially in the context of combating wicked problems are not sufficiently included in the practices.

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