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Scholarly literature analysis has been carried out to theoretically substantiate the interaction between public administration and public policy and highlight changes in the public administration paradigm. In the paper, a discourse is viewed as a wide presentation of public administration ideas. Since a discourse is not an isolated phenomenon, everything that has been noted, emphasized, expressed, summarized and is related to public administration is considered to be part of public administration discourse. Drawing on theoretical insights the paper deals with public administration discourse in the programs of the Lithuanian political parties: the Labour Party, the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania, the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, the Order and Justice Party and the Lithuanian Liberal Movement. Analysis of the content of the programs of the selected political parties has been carried out, its results have been evaluated and the main public administration paradigms in the programs of the political parties have been determined.

Scholarly literature analysis has been carried out to theoretically substantiate the interaction between public administration and public policy and highlight changes in the public administration paradigm. In the paper, a discourse is viewed as a wide presentation of public administration ideas. Since a discourse is not an isolated phenomenon, everything that has been noted, emphasized, expressed, summarized and is related to public administration is considered to be part of public administration discourse. Drawing on theoretical insights the paper deals with public administration discourse in the programs of the Lithuanian political parties: the Labour Party, the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania, the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, the Order and Justice Party and the Lithuanian Liberal Movement. Analysis of the content of the programs of the selected political parties has been carried out, its results have been evaluated and the main public administration paradigms in the programs of the political parties have been determined.

Having performed literary analysis, the aspects of improvement of local self-government in the context of new public governance have been theoretically substantiated. Referring to theoretical insights, the provisions of programmes of the biggest political parties of the Republic of Lithuania related to local self-government have been analysed covering period from December 12, 2012 to March 31, 2014. In addition, the agendas and reports of the meetings of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania have been analysed in order to determine main tendencies of improvement of local self-government that receive biggest attention from the political parties in decision making process. The research has shown that improvement of local self-government in the programmes of political parties is oriented to 4 tendencies: 1) independence/autonomy; 2) strengthening of democracy and civil society; 3) improvement of governance; 4) quality of public sector services. In the agendas of the meetings of Government of the Republic of Lithuania mainly the issues related to efficiency, effectiveness, legitimacy of local self-government, strengthening of abilities of civil servants have been analysed.