Public Management as a University Discipline in New European Union Member States

This paper presents findings on the developments of PA education in 11 CEE countries and discusses various patterns based on the data on the historical background of PA education, forming thus the initial outcome of a more complex research carried out within the PAQUALITY project. The analysis is based around two main contextual factors: the role of imprinting (path-dependence) of the PA education in the framework of history and evolved PA ideologies, and the development of PA as discipline; and the role of institutional and HE legal factors on the current existence and status of PA education in the selected cluster of countries. The research question relates to the potential observation of differences in the development and current status of PA education in 11 CEE countries today. For this purpose, we utilize a co-variational international comparative case-study methodological approach, since this is a variable-centered approach, as it is acknowledged that a full-fledged theory might be absent in the framework of this specific investigation. The results indicate that we can argue in favor of the role of path-dependence in shaping PA education in CEE countries, where different starting points affected the outcomes in the content of current PA education. However, path-dependence is not to be taken as a sole factor corresponding to the development of the PA discipline in specific countries, as also more context-based factors and legal provisions do play the role. The outcome is that there is a lack of uniformity of PA education across CEE countries, where the country-specific context is the major factor in shaping the structure and content of programs, in some instances even creating new “sciences”. Although it would be expected to have some convergence in PA programs after almost three decades after the political and economic transformations started, we can even argue that PA education is more diverse now. This would give a specific role to the internalization and / or international accreditation in re-shaping and reversing the divergence processes in the future, but the anticipation for program consolidation might also be the factor that could have converging effects.

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“…Staroňová and Gajduschek 2016;Verheijen and Nemec 2000), or public management programs (e.g. Nemec et al 2012).…”

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Public Administration Education in the CEE Countries: How has it Developed during the Recent Decades ?

Pevcin

Špaček

Klimovský

2019

NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy

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“…Th e above-mentioned factors are not only related to the implementation of fi scal rules, but we can see their impact in other areas of public-sector activities, such as the implementation of management tools (Nemec et al 2008) or education in public administration (Nemec et al 2012). It also appears in the other states of the post-communist bloc (Plaček et al 2014;Ochrana et al 2016; Randma-Liiv and Drechsler 2017) as undesirable reforms of the public sector.…”

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The Impact of Fiscal Rules on the Financial Management of Higher Self-Governing Units in the Slovak Republic

Šagát¹,

Plaček

Kolman

2019

NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy

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This article deals with the analysis of the impact of fiscal rules on financial management within the higher self-governing units of the Slovak Republic. For this analysis, unique data from 2002 – 2016 has been used. The quantitative analysis is complemented by a questionnaire survey and a structured interview of respondents who are responsible for controlling the financial management of higher territorial units. This analysis has shown the positive effect of fiscal rules on regional economics, but also revealed shortcomings that prevent the full use of fiscal rules in Slovakia. Th is is primarily due to incomplete and formal implementation, the interests of local elites, and a lack of coordination of activities with the central government.

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“…In the Czech institutional context (cf. Nemec et al 2014), it is plausible to conjecture that crowdfunding constitutes a part of the evolutionary dynamics of the welfare state (Vaceková et al 2017). …”

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Profitable Nonprofits? Reward-Based Crowdfunding in the Czech Republic

Hrůzová¹,

Vaceková²

2017

NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy

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Th is paper deals with crowdfunding as a new and alternative mechanism of nonprofi t funding which has thus far attracted little scholarly attention in the Czech context. It focuses on the factors that aff ect a campaign's overfunding rate and determines whether these factors are consistent among diff erent forms of project creators. A comprehensive analysis of reward-based crowdfunding in the Czech Republic was conducted based on the data from 617 projects using the Czech crowdfunding platform Hithit that were categorized according to the status of the project creator. Using binary logistic regression, a statistic estimation on an overall sample and on a sample of purely nonprofi t projects was executed in order to observe if the outcomes diff er. Th e key empirical fi nding is that NGOs tend to raise fewer additional funds than other forms of project creators. Except for certain specifi c factors, the eff ects of the examined factors were consistent across all samples. Th is new and innovative approach to resource insuffi ciency by using alternative funding sources presents an important and unexplored research gap in the (post-) transitive context of nonprofi t sector studies, enabling a view of policy implications for Czech NGOs.

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Public Management as a University Discipline in New European Union Member States

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Public Administration Education in the CEE Countries: How has it Developed during the Recent Decades ?

Public Administration Education in the CEE Countries: How has it Developed during the Recent Decades ?

The Impact of Fiscal Rules on the Financial Management of Higher Self-Governing Units in the Slovak Republic

Profitable Nonprofits? Reward-Based Crowdfunding in the Czech Republic

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