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Lessons and Recommendations for Improvement: Central and Eastern European Public Administration and Public Policy
Juraj Nemec
Date: 2007
ISBN: 978-80-89013-31-9
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The first pilot of a series of annual volumes that will start from 2008 as the NISPAcee Yearbook in Public Administration and Public Policy. In each article, the authors explore the unique experience of a particular country, identify the approaches that were used by these countries, and assess the success and sustainability of these approaches.
Table ofContents
Foreword
Mzia Mikeladze ....................................................................................................7
Part I
Technical Assistance for Building Professional Public Administration in CEE and the CIS: What’s Gone Wrong?
David Coombes ................................................................................................13
The Public Decision-making System in Hungary; Main Problems and Possible Measures for Its Improvement
János Hoós ..........................................................................................................33
Patient Safety: a Policy Framework
Peter Makai ........................................................................................................65
Europeanisation of Higher Education in the Area of Administrative Sciences in Romania
Lucica Matei ......................................................................................................87
Public Administration Reform in Serbia and European Integration Processes: On the Same or Parallel Tracks?
Milena Mihajlovic ...........................................................................................131
The Role of the Bulgarian Public Administration System in the Transition to "Market Based” Urban Development
Alexander D. Slaev ..........................................................................................157
Part II
CaseStudies
Political Bias in Discretionary Funding for Municipalities: The Case of Slovakia
Miroslav Beblavý, Emília Sičáková-Beblavá ..................................................183
Contracting-out Local Public Services – Situation and Trends in Slovakia and the Czech Republic
Beáta Meričková, Juraj Nemec .......................................................................191
Methods of Selection of External Suppliers of Local Public Services and the Impact of the Quality of the Selection Procedure on the Per Capita Cost zech Republic
Jan Pavel ..........................................................................................................205
Communication and Electronic Public Administration: Some Issues in
the Context of the Czech System of Public Administration
David Špaček, Jiří Špalek .................................................................................217
Major Changes in the Romanian Public Utility Services and the Main Actions
Gabriela Stanciulescu,Armenia Androniceanu .............................................239
Part III
NISPAcee Best Graduate Student Paper from the 14th NISPAcee Annual Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, May2006
The Role Patterns of Ministers’ Personal Advisors in the Politico- administrative Dichotomy. Comparative Case Study of Two Estonian Ministries
Maria Keris, Jako Salla ...................................................................................263
Index .............................................................................................................................287