25 years of public administration developments and reforms in V4 region / Visegrad Fund ; Juraj Nemec, David Špaček (eds.).

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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 25 years of public administration in the Czech Republic -- Introduction -- 1. Development of Public Administration in the Czech Republic to 1989 -- 1.1 Chronological development of public administration to 1989 -- 1.2 Key findings from this period -- 2. Development of Public Administration since 1989 -- 2.1 Development in the period of 1989 -- 2003 -- 2.1.1 Procedures and steps of reform in this period -- 2.1.2 Key findings from this period -- 2.2 Development of public administration since 2003 -- 2.2.1 Procedures and steps of reform in this period

2.2.2 Key findings from this period -- 3. Critical assessment of implemented reforms -- 4. Best practices and recommendations for implementation in the V4 countries -- Conclusion -- References -- Hungary's central state administration 1990-2014 -- Introduction -- 1. The theoretical context, the questions and the method of the research -- 1.1 Scholarly accounts of public administration reforms in Central and Eastern Europe -- 1.2 Research questions and method -- 2. Democratic transition and consolidation (1989-1998) -- 2.1 The context and the key determinants of reforms -- 2.2 Structural changes

2.3 Operations and work processes -- 2.4 The civil service system -- 3. Presidentialism and governmental capacity building (1998-2010) -- 3.1 The context and the key determinants of reforms -- 3.2 Structural changes -- 3.3 Operations and work processes -- 3.4 The civil service system -- 4. Illiberal democracy and "Orbanization" (2010-2014) -- 4.1 The context and the key determinans of reforms -- 4.2 Structural changes -- 4.3 Operations and work processes -- 4.4 The civil service system -- Conclusions: Hungarian reform patterns -- References -- Public administration reforms in Poland

Introduction -- 1. Public administration before 1989 -- 2. Public Administration after 1989 -- 2.1 Structural efforts and unsatisfactory results -- 2.2 Critical assessment of Implemented Reforms -- 2.3 The problem of the politicization -- 2.4 Etatist model of public governance -- 2.5 The role of human capital -- 2.6 The role of analytical skills -- 2.7 Organizational culture -- 3. Best practices and recommendations for implementation in other V4 countries -- References -- Developments and Reforms in Public Administration in Slovak Republic (Critical assessment of selected implemented NPM tools)

Short introduction -- 1. Description of public administration prior transition in 1989 -- 1.1 Historical development of territorial and administrative arrangement in the territory of the Slovak Republic until the foundation of the Kingdom of Hungary -- 1.2 Territorial and administrative arrangement until 1918 -- 1.3 Territorial arrangement of Slovakia from the foundation of the Czechoslovak Republic to 1945 -- 1.4 Public administration in Slovakia after the WW II -- 2. Development of the public administration system after transition

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