Performing to Type? How State Institutions Matter in East Central Europe

Zubek, Radosław; Goetz, Klaus H.

doi:10.1017/s0143814x09990237

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“…Such overwhelming changes were possible because of a massive deinstitutionalization of political and economic spheres caused by the demise of the communist regimes (Zubek & Goetz, 2010). According to Olsen (2009, 10-11), deinstitutionalization implies that "existing institutional borders, identities, rules and practices as well as shared conceptions of legitimate resources and powers are becoming contested and possibly discontinued."…”

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confidence: 98%

“…Nevertheless, the change in CEE administrative systems has been largely neglected in academic research thus far. Zubek and Goetz's (2010) overview of the key works on state institutions in CEE countries demonstrates the strong academic interest in the legislative and political institutions (parliaments, party systems, political executive, etc.) and the meager attention that has been paid to the administrative organization.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Administrative Structure in Times of Changes: The Development of Estonian Ministries and Government Agencies 1990–2010

Sarapuu

2012

International Journal of Public Administration

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The article addresses the change in administrative structure at the center of the Estonian government during the twenty years of post-communist development. The focus is on three issues of theoretical relevance-the rate of change in the core parts of public administration, the aspired retrenchment of administrative structures, and the combination of national and international forces behind structural change. In analyzing the factors behind Estonian administrative formation, the initial deinstitutionalization of the politico-administrative system appears to be a critical factor for understanding the direction and content of the reforms undertaken.

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Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

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Administrative Structure in Times of Changes: The Development of Estonian Ministries and Government Agencies 1990–2010

Sarapuu

2012

International Journal of Public Administration

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“…A number of studies (e.g. Goetz 2001;Verheijen 2003;Dunn et al 2006;World Bank 2006;Bouckaert et al 2008;SIGMA 2009;Zubek and Goetz 2010;Meyer-Sahling and Yesilkagit 2011;Randma-Liiv et al 2011) have already considered various aspects of public management reforms in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. Yet, the performance management -and more particularly, performance measurement -component of these reform attempts has not received sufficient academic attention so far.…”

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confidence: 99%

Performance Measurement and Performance Information in New Democracies

Nõmm

Randma‐Liiv

2012

Public Management Review

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This article explores the introduction of performance measurement tools in new democracies by presenting a qualitative study based on Estonian governmental documents and performance audits. A set of specific factors help to explain difficulties in introducing performance measurement tools in immature policy environments: instability, poor strategic planning and policy analysis, an implementation gap, uncritical and uninformed transfer of Western performance management initiatives. Although the authors recognize the limits of generalizations based on the Estonian example, the presence of such 'transitional' factors is likely to make the development of performance measurement in new democracies even more complicated than in the West.

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“…The EU had a strong and systematic impact on state institutions of CEE -executives, legislatures, and judiciaries (Zubek and Goetz 2010). The EU's impact on national core executives has been pronounced for those institutional arrangements that link national executives and the EU.…”

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Europeanisation in new member and candidate states

Sedelmeier¹

2011

Living Rev. Euro. Gov.

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The Europeanisation of candidate countries and new members is a rather recent research area that has grown strongly since the early 2000s. Research in this area has developed primarily in the context of the EU's eastern enlargement. A small number of theoretically informed book-length studies of the EU's influence on the Central and Eastern European candidate countries have provided a generalisable conceptual framework for this research area, drawing on the debate between rationalist institutionalist and constructivist institutionalist approaches in International Relations and Comparative Politics. This framework makes these studies highly compatible with analyses of the Europeanisation of member states, with which they also share one key empirical finding, namely that the impact of the EU on candidate countries is differential across countries and issue areas. At the same time, the theoretical implications of these findings appear more clear-cut than in the case of the Europeanisation of member states: rationalist institutionalism, with its focus on the external incentives underpinning EU conditionality and the material costs incurred by domestic veto players, appears well-suited to explaining variation in the patterns of Europeanisation in candidate countries. A very recent development within this research agenda is the focus on the Europeanisation of new member states. While the study of the EU's impact during the early years of membership was hitherto primarily a subfield of analyses of the Europeanisation of member states, it has now become an extension of studies of candidate countries by analysing the impact of accession on the dynamics of pre-accession Europeanisation and how durable and distinctive the patterns of candidate Europeanisation are in the post-accession stage.

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Performing to Type? How State Institutions Matter in East Central Europe

Cited by 21 publications

References 90 publications

Administrative Structure in Times of Changes: The Development of Estonian Ministries and Government Agencies 1990–2010

Administrative Structure in Times of Changes: The Development of Estonian Ministries and Government Agencies 1990–2010

Performance Measurement and Performance Information in New Democracies

Europeanisation in new member and candidate states

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