Abstract
Although public agencies have existed for several decades, in Serbia, they are new forms of government bodies. The aspiration to modernize the public administration and harmonize it with modern trends can be an opportunity to see the stages of development and models of control and autonomy of the agency from the decades-long development of Swedish public agencies. The example of Croatia will show the potential of the former socialist state for such reforms and how important reforms are on the road to the European Union in the XXI century. Through the analysis of relevant literature and a comparative method, there are presented the reforms of public agencies being implemented in selected countries since their first appearance till nowadays. This paper focuses on the process of creation and development of public agencies in Sweden and Croatia, as members of the European Union, whose development of a public administration differs significantly, all in order to answer the questions: How much do public agencies contribute to decentralization? Are these bodies necessary for the approach and accession to the EU?
Highlights
Public administration, as a performer of administrative activities and public services, was created at the same time as the welfare state
Taking into account that several European countries are candidates for European Union (EU) membership, we analyzed the models of public agencies of two EU member states
We have shown that intensive establishment of agencies in Croatia took place in parallel with negotiations on EU accession, due to the need for institutional adjustment to the European governance system
Summary
As a performer of administrative activities and public services, was created at the same time as the welfare state. Some tasks, which were traditionally performed by the state until the last quarter of the 20th century, became the responsibility of newly established bodies or even legal entities These reforms, better known as the New Public Management (NPM) principles, have spread from the UK to the rest of the world. In countries where English language is in use, this term refers to entities that perform administrative activities, which we would call administrative bodies The tendency to create agencies and transfer state powers to (partially) bodies in English texts is denoted by the term ”agencification”. In our country, this term is uncritically accepted, so we are talking about ”agency” (Milkov, 2014, 33–34). Not all small European countries are responsible, large coalition governments in Serbia, Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria coexist with a large number of agencies
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