Privatizacija in evalvacija družbenih dejavnosti (Slovene)

The programme is an amalgam of the following two projects: the Privatisation of Social Services and Evaluation of Higher Education. The common feature of both projects is modernisation of public services and/or the public sector. The privatisation deals with overhauling of the system, and the evaluation with an evaluation of policies and programmes. The privatisation is examined from the aspect of multi-level division of power and work. What we are interested in are the concealed, hybrid and complete forms of privatisation, and the conditions in which individual forms of privatisation achieve a (sub)optimal state. We study conflicts and cooperation between the public and private sectors, and the regulatory role of so-called quasi-markets in privatisation processes. The evaluation of higher education has been expanded to include the evaluation of public services in all areas of social services. Here we examine various forms of internal, external, a priori and a posteriori evaluation, regardless of whether they are based on self-evaluation, evaluation by colleagues or other methods of evaluating programmes and policies. The developmental gap between the public and private sector is particularly obvious in the developed industrial societies. To overcome this, the so-called New Public Management approach has been intensively applied for the last two decades. Its aim is to ensure greater efficiency and success of the public sector by selectively transferring regulatory methods and techniques from the private sector. Apart from quality management, privatisation and evaluation are the most common instruments used in modernisation of the public sector.