Klaipėdos universitetas

In this interdisciplinary article, the authors analyse the historical development of the Dutch state, the specificities of its governance, and its key features in the context of the 21st century. The theoretical analysis identifies the most important political, social, economic and cultural features, and their historical evolution. The situation of the current political-public governance is assessed. The paper analyses various scientific sources, statistical information and different historical phases in governance, which help to reveal not only the key strengths of the Dutch state, but also the challenges inherent to the Netherlands. The article expresses the opinion that an analysis of the good practice of the case of the Netherlands could be significant for the improvement of democratic and public governance processes in Lithuania.

The essence of the “Swedish socialism” created in the 20th century lies in “democratic functional socialism”. During the last 30 years, even after having refused part of its elements, it remains the foundation of the Swedish welfare state, and historically the name of the “Swedish socialism” is mostly related to the famous Swedish and global figure of the smart political powers, social democrat Olof Palme. The article reviews the features of the biography of Olof Palme and his both theoretical and practical activity opting for social justice and by creating a welfare state in Sweden by the means of “democratic functional socialism”. Olof Palme was also an advocate of human rights and freedoms, neutrality of small countries, an international mediator, an advocate of nuclear disarmament policy and a severe critic of neo-liberal ideas.

Over the period of two decades of public governance evolution, the public sector researchers focused on the main elements of new public management evolution to new public governance as modern stage of public administration theory and administrative practice. The methodology of public governance consists of various ideas, paradigms, analytical methods, models and constructs. Such collection represents the logic of public governance problem research in the modern public sector changes, reforms, modernization at the beginning of twenty first century. This study on the basis of meta-analysis, theoretic modelling, classification, interpretative method has the task to explore the main reasons, structures and impacts of public governance evolution to the development of public policy decision making, intersectional integration, creation of hybrid form of organization networks, quality of socially oriented governance and implementation of more effective strategic planning role modelling the new constructions of performance management in public sector.