THE NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT AND LOCAL POLITICS IN SWEDEN

Abstract

Since the late 1970s and 1980s local important legal reforms have been carried out in Sweden. In accordance with the basic argument of new public management reforms, has begun to transform the public administration. It is in the public sector in many countries such as Sweden which said the transformation of the competitive market in the public sector use of private sector management techniques and mechanisms of understanding to approximate. Particularly in local government has been involved in any changes to be made that the new local government act on the basis of ?new public management? In accordance with the public in 1991. Therefore, this period of reform in the public sector responsibilities and resources in order to make effective and eliminate public criticism, the Central and the local market have being share.