Devolution in the Czech and Slovak institutions of cultural heritage

Plaček, Michal; Ochrana, František; Půček, Milan Jan; Němec, Juraj; Křápek, Milan

doi:10.1080/09647775.2018.1496356

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“…Generally, we take these bottlenecks to be indicative of the slow institutionalization of GPP in the museum sector. Because the institutionalization process takes time, it will react to emerging trends with a certain delay, which may be specifically caused by path dependency (Plaček et al 2018), internal politics, lack of innovation culture, lack of administrative capacity, or lack of stakeholder pressure.…”

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Green public procurement in the most visited European museums: a comparison and a mapping

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Rosell,

Valentinov

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Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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While scholarly research on green public procurement (GPP) keeps growing, until now it has paid little attention to museums that must make decisions about GPP implementation. This paper breaks new ground by exploring GPP implementation in the most visited European museums. The proposed conceptual framework allows a comparison and a mapping of museums’ GPP implementation levels while taking account of how these levels are related to the national GPP performance. Complementing this framework with the analysis of the up-to-date data from the Tender Electronic Daily database yields two central findings. First, museums that formalized their GPP policies in their strategic organizational documents exhibit higher levels of GPP implementation than other museums that have not done so. Second, the majority of the investigated museums follow national trends of GPP implementation, with examples of exceeding or falling below these trends being rare. The article is important for policy makers and practitioners as it highlights the importance of the factor of institutionalization of green procurement in individual organizations, which is crucial for successful implementation of green procurement.

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Green public procurement in the most visited European museums: a comparison and a mapping

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“…Specific mechanisms facilitating male privilege and female disadvantage in the public procurement process have become ingrained within a plethora of formal and informal decision-making rules and heuristics and thus engender path dependencies (Ochrana et al, 2019; which may also be characteristic of other areas, such as social policy or the legislative process (cf. Plaček et al, 2018). What is crucial is that these mechanisms shape the GPP preferences of politicians and administrators.…”

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Gender Heterogeneity and Politics in Decision-Making About Green Public Procurement in the Czech Republic

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Green public procurement (GPP) is a widely recognized public policy tool that has attracted considerable scholarly research. However, much of this research has paid little attention to the nature of discretionary decision-making on the part of bureaucrats and local politicians; nor has it recognized that a crucial determinant of the implementation of GPP is the extent to which women hold administrative and political positions. While GPP tends to be discussed as a tool for promoting gender equality, we draw on feminist insights to argue that doing so may be a tool for enhancing the uptake and implementation of GPP. Utilizing the data from a large-N survey among local politicians and upper-echelon bureaucrats in the Czech Republic, we develop a path analysis model exploring the influence of gender on their decision-making. The results give credence to our overall argument that women are more likely to promote GPP. This argument not only breaks new ground by revealing the gendered nature of GPP but also generates straightforward policy implications.

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“…The influence of past dependence can be traced in many public policies implemented in the Czech Republic, such as in tourism (Williams and Baláž, 2002), social policy (Saxonberg et al, 2015) and the policy of cultural heritage protection (Plaček et al, 2018). This article contributes to this discussion by examining the impact of the path dependence on ministerial officials.…”

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Ministerial staff of the Czech Republic 25 years after the ‘Velvet Revolution’

Ochrana

Plaček

Křápek

2018

Teaching Public Administration

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The article analyses ministerial staff of the Czech Republic 25 years after the Velvet Revolution. It characterizes ministerial employees during the period of the communist regime in former Czechoslovakia (1948–1989) and following the anti-communist coup. In order to analyse the present-day situation, it uses our own survey of the staff working at ministries in the Czech Republic. Within the survey (conducted April–June 2013) all 14 ministries of the Czech Republic were contacted. In total, 1351 respondents (ministerial employees of the Czech Republic) participated in the survey. The research aimed to examine the gender structure, age, education, acquired experience and performed activities of ministerial staff. The results of the research also signal that in some areas (e.g. within the so-called systematized employment positions and the prescribed level of education at some ministries) the residual effects of the previous regime still manifest themselves. The results of this research may be an inspiration for similar research projects in other countries of the former Soviet bloc.

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Devolution in the Czech and Slovak institutions of cultural heritage

Cited by 10 publications

References 22 publications

Green public procurement in the most visited European museums: a comparison and a mapping

Green public procurement in the most visited European museums: a comparison and a mapping

Gender Heterogeneity and Politics in Decision-Making About Green Public Procurement in the Czech Republic

Ministerial staff of the Czech Republic 25 years after the ‘Velvet Revolution’

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