Abstract:

In the present-day economic science, the problems of public management efficiency are traditionally disputable for a number of reasons. First, this investigatory field is closely related to the national peculiarities of public management system development which produced numerous scientific disputes about advantages and disadvantages of each of them. Second, despite the fact that the state sector reformation and the problems of economic efficacy in particular have become the subject of quite many works, these two trends were developing separately, and there are rather few works of interdisciplinary nature.

In this article the authors, based on the conducted content-analysis, systemize the main approaches to assessment of public management efficiency from the perspective of the development of scientific concepts about the role and significance of the state within the economic theory. Under the conditions of development of Project Cycle Management paradigm the authors single out the new stage – the contemporary fourth “assessment wave”.

The article suggests a new method of assessment of public administration efficiency based on the principles of meta-assessment at various stages of lifecycle of the state priorities implementation. The basic analytical tool of the method is GAP-analysis used by the authors for the search of possible emerging discrepancies between the increment rates of targeted indicators of the program financing and the increment rates of state financing of the program. Analytical opportunities of the model are illustrated based on the analysis of satisfaction with state (municipal) service quality.