PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REFORM: FROM TRADITIONAL TO NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENTHISTORY OF NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENTThe new public management (NPM) movement began to develop in the late 1970s and early of the 80s. The UK was the first to move. They were reformed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and municipal governments in the United States who faced the plight of recessionary developments and tax revolts among their citizens. Other common-wealth nations such as New Zealand and Australia have joined, and after the success of their reforms, almost all OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries have also joined, including other countries in world (OECD 1995). INTRODUCTION As a contemporary paradigm of public administration, New Public Management (NPM) reveals the failures and inadequacies of public sector performance over time and of traditional public administration. It was established as a concise description of how to finely structure public sector entities, to bring their management approaches closer to business methods. The global administrative reform movement (caused by the Thatcherism process, originating in the United Kingdom) in public management was driven by the government's need to respond to fiscal stress caused by changes in the international economic system, on the other hand by the continuous demand for government services and regulations in national political systems. These stresses have generated many policy responses aimed at budget containment and reduction of governments' public services, including several measures to privatize government operations and deregulate private economic enterprises. The global reform movement in public management has been... half of paper... ...missing some of the positive aspects seen from the high ethical standards of the old model. Moe (1994) points out that new public management fails to take into account critical differences between the private and government sectors, thus ignores that government is based on the rule of law and not on market-driven mechanisms. CONCLUSION There have been changes in the public sector and reforms that had never been seen before. For a number of reasons, the traditional model of public administration is being replaced by a new model of public management. This change involves much more than just public sector reform. It involves changes in the functioning of public services. The new public management can be useful to the government and should be taken seriously into consideration. However, new public management is not a comprehensive solution to all the difficulties of public administration in modern governments.