PUBLIC SECTOR UNDER CONTEMPORARY CONDITIONS (Sektor publiczny w warunkach wspolczesnych)

The author of this article makes an attempt to point out that 'contemporary conditions', especially globalization processes exert a significant influence on the functioning of the public sector and, consequently, on its model approach. Accordingly, neither traditional model of a welfare state nor neoliberal economy model can fully explain the functions and duties of the public sector and its relation to the environment. This indicates a need for a new model of public sector which will be adequate to the fast-moving environment, even if we assume some stability of certain elements of the sector.