The text below is a translation from a newspaper article. Voting is citizens' way to express their ideas about the management of common issues. The activities of the state and the municipalities have to be public, which is the fundamental difference if compared to the private sector The central values of public administration are efficiency and responsibility to the citizens.
Political management forms the basic structure of public management.
New management philosophy is being tested in the publicly owned organisations. The unifying and strict performance culture needs more individual models of the personnel's development. In Vaasa University the Administrative Sciences study the change of the administration in the public sector from the perspective of comparative social sciences, and the internationality-oriented program trains the students into academic professionals for whom the managerial skills are important. The information attained through comparisons and international examples are the key to the critical evaluation, development and reformation of the Finnish public sector. Management can be described at least by some features that are included both in the public and the private sector.