Rozwój zarządzania publicznego

Abstract

The paper concerns the public administration, which in the past was a discipline mainly connected with political science and public policy, and today is the subject with theoretical roots in institutional and network theory. The author presents the evolution of the following concepts (Public Administration, New Public Management, New Public Governance) showing their main characteristics. The network creation and network management seems to be the future of improving public sector’s results. The Polish public administration follows the mood of changes in this regard. Today the changes are more efficiency oriented (NPM concept), but there are also some signs that the concept of New Public Governance is possible (in the future) in the Polish realities. Today it is rather cooperative approach than network approach, but these processes have to last time.