The Main Trends and Principles of Public Administration Development throughout the World and in Latvia
Further development of state adminstration and local government reforms is connected with the use ofsuch issues and principles as decentralisation and deconcentration of public administration, separation ofstrategy from the provision of services, diminishing the gap between democracy and efficiency, enhancingthe citizens participation and mutual trust of citizens in government and vice versa, creation of "entrepreneural"governments, principle of evaluation, reducing bureaucracy and increasing the openness,principle of diversity and possibility of choice, principle of simplifications, improving the quality of publicservice improving the political and administrative culture and integration of various institutions, reformsand activities in the context of the EU.The model of integration has been worked out by the Department of Public Administration of the Universityof Latvia and the Latvian Statistical Institute. The novelty of the model is that it proposes both verticaland horizontal communications of different institutions and people in the process of implementationof public administration reforms, local governance, national development planning and regional policy,beginning from the European Commission and ending with the citizens.