Public Administration and Management Reforms in CEE: Main Trajectories and Results

The Influence of Government Priorities on Public-Administration Reforms in Europe1

“…Bovens et al 2001), it is important to undertake a broader comparative analysis of reform implementation, including Eastern European and Western Balkan countries, where many reforms were carried out in the last two decades (e.g. Bouckaert et al 2011) in the scope of analysis. Despite the recent reviews of New Public Management reforms in the post-communist region that analysed the infl uence of capacities and context on these reforms (Dan and Pollitt 2014) implemented in the 2004 -2013 period, it is pertinent to consider new trends in the process of reform formulation and implementation.…”

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“…Governments of the Czech Republic, in most cases, do not feel the need to strategically govern and strategically manage, nor do they suffer from the shortfall of effective governing. We encountered a similar situation in other CEE 7 The methodology of this research, along with a detailed description of the research sample is dealt with by the study of Vesely (2013 countries as well, as shown by Bouckaert et al (2009), Coombes & Verheijen (1997, Nemec (2010), Rosenbaum, Nemec et al (2006), Schimmelfennig & Sedelmeier (2004) and Dunn, Staroňová & Pushkarev (2006). The mentioned authors point out that in these countries, not only are prerequisites for strategic governance and management lacking, but also the ability to implement strategic objectives of government policies.…”

“…We can thus conclude that policy on the part of workers demands the need to develop a ministerial department of 'strategic units'. In the context of the experience of other European countries, which has been generalized in the scientific literature, regarding the problem strategic governance (Harris, 2005;Schuster et al 1994) and strategic management (e.g., Bouckaert et al, 2009;Johnson et al, 2007 ;Protecting et al, 2010;Visser, 2016,), such a provision department at the government level or at the level of the individual ministries (along with the implementation of strategic management) can be considered as one of the factors that can improve the level of strategic governance and strategic management in the Czech Republic.…”

The Implementation of Performance Management in European Central Governments: More a North-South than an East-West Divide

“…Th ese fi ndings confi rm that aft er 1990, the transformation of these countries varied in speed against the background of country-specifi c political-institutional conditions and pre-communist administrative traditions, but were also strongly infl uenced by EU-accession processes (e.g. Kuhlmann and Wollmann 2014, 19f;Bouckaert et al 2011). Our fi ndings also point to the need for a more nuanced understanding of administrative traditions along diff erences found between countries belonging to the same tradition: Norway, being less receptive for performance management than the other Scandinavian countries, or the Netherlands, being clearly more receptive than its Continental European counterparts.…”