Wartość publiczna a legitymizacja
Public value and legitimacy

Summary/Abstract: The goal of the paper is to examine the relation between public value and legitimacy. The first is a relatively new (1995) concept of management in public sector, and it expresses an idea that public sector managers should create value to the public (so-called public value). Unfortunately, there are several interpretations of public value, all of them described in the article. Legitimacy is one of the crucial ideas in political science, and the main properties of legitimacy are described too. Finally, the concept that public value is an underlying basis for legitimacy, and its consequences are analyzed.

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