Public Administration in Central Europe

Ideas as Causes of Reforms
Herausgeber: Mazur, Stanis¿aw

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the extent to which recent transformations of administrative systems and public management mechanisms in Central European (CE) countries serve the purpose of providing effective and efficient public institutions, high quality of public services, respect for the rule of law, and the citizens' trust in the state. It details the reasons behind the major differences in the modernisation paths followed and their attendant inconsistencies and how, despite the adoption of values and solutions prevailing in the EU upon accession, these countries are shifting, to varying degrees, towards institutional design reminiscent of illiberal democracies. Taking a comparative approach and based on rich original data, it applies theoretical models to explain the nature and implications of the processes under consideration and identifies the determinants that impact upon the transformation of public administration systems and its consequences. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of public governance, public administration and policy, East European studies, and more broadly politics, law, sociology but also economy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 642g
• ISBN-13: 9780367251963
• ISBN-10: 0367251965
• Artikelnr.: 59423852

Autorenporträt

Stanis¿aw Mazur is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Public Policies and Dean of the College of Public Economy and Administration at Cracow University of Economics, Poland.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Part I: Introduction 1. The Singularity of Central Europe? 2. From
Stalinism to Liberal Democracy: A recent history of administration in the
V4 countries Part II: Ideational Basis for the Emergence of Institutions
and Institutional Reforms 3. How Ideas and Institutions Mutually Affect
Each Other 4. The Competition of Ideas and Ideational Disruption 5. The
Background, Direction, Ideas, Triggers, and Durability of Public Sector
Reforms: A conceptual analysis of the EU28 and the Visegrád 4 Part III:
Public Administration Relations with the Environment 6. Politicians and
Bureaucrats in Central and Eastern Europe: Governance with increased
politicisation 7. Modes of Governance in the Visegrád Countries 8. Between
Compliance and Systemic Change: Evaluation practice in eight CEE countries
9. Relations with Interest Groups and Corruption in the V4 Countries 10.
Populism in the Visegrád Group Countries Part IV: Management Reforms in
Public Administration 11. Public Administration Structures 12. Public
Financial Management 13. Local Government in the V4 Countries: Heyday,
stability or retreat? Part V: Reconceptualization: The Role of Competition
of Ideas in PA Reform 14. Interrupted Progress: Towards an understanding of
causes of institutional disruption 15. Institutional Change and Increasing
Ambivalence of Reform Effects and Reform Outcomes 16. A Review of
Administrative Reforms in the V4 Countries. Afterword