Abstract:

Social and economic changes affected the applications of public management. Conventional Public Administration approach has lost its power after1980's. Nation-state has lost its power against market and has evolved into a regulator-role. The dualistic approach of Wilson aiming to distinguish politics and management, summarized as ‘management is management’, and the bureaucratic and hierarchic organization schemes are not enough to meet the needs of new era. New Public Administration (NPA) approach became widespread by reconciling the market and state, especially in North America and Western Europe. In Turkey, the process of harmonization by neo-liberal politicies, starts with Özal, economy created an appropriate environment for the NPA. The political parties which could be accepted as “New Right” advocate ideas of the NPA such as privatization, horizontal organization, participation. Traditional conservative political parties and leftist parties are still under effected on Conventional Public Administration approach albeit partially.

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