New public management in Morocco between freedom of management and the obligation of control

Abstract

The reform of public administration in its various aspects: budget management, public management, administrative procedures, digitization, human resources management, has been a recurring theme in recent decades worldwide. Indeed, all countries have attempted reforms aimed at modernizing their administration.

We are witnessing the rise of a new paradigm of public management under different names: new public management, results-based management, management by objective, public performance management. It is a matter of moving from public management based on the logic of resources and a responsibility for regularity to management based on logic and accountability for performance. At the heart of this strategic change lies the issue of reconciliation with the objective of freedom of management and the obligation of control.

The new public management aims to make public managers accountable for the results and performance achieved; and in return, for this accountability, these managers enjoy a great deal of leeway and great freedom of management. This involves reforming the control systems exercised over public management: reducing ex ante control and strengthening ex post control, rationalization of regularity control and development of management and performance control.

This article aims to show this problematic of the reconciliation between the freedom of management and the obligation of control, in the new public management initiated in Morocco since the beginning of the new century, confirmed by the last constitution of 2011 and consolidated by the last reform of the organic finance law of the 2015.

Paper type: Theoretical Research

JEL Classification : H61