Reforming the Civil Service as the Precondition for Public Administration Reform in Croatia

Abstract

Weaknesses in the Croatian public administration pose one of the most important impediments to advancing reforms in the country, which requires a restructuring and modernizing of the public administration in the context of European integration as well as in the perspective of economic recovery and growth. The present article analyses the present state of fulfilment of the administrative criteria for EU membership in Croatia, particularly questioning the fulfilment of European principles of civil service, claiming that reform of this sector is crucial for a modernized, transparent and efficient public administration.

Kompetencie obcí na úseku stavebného poriadku v SR – nutnosť novej legislatívnej úpravy

“…(Tichý, 2005). V podmienkach Slovenskej republiky dopadmi poslednej reformy verejnej správy, ktorá sa neustále považuje za nedokončenú, štát preniesol na mestá a obce (ktorých bolo podľa Bačíka (2019) k 31.12.2018 presne 2 927) mnoho kompetencií, vrátane kompetencie na úrovni stavebného poriadku, čím ako uvádza Petričušie (2007) sa dospelo k ich vyššej miere nezávislosti.…”

The effects of EU CARDS/IPA on administrative capacity in Croatia

“…First, distinctive regional science contributions build on policy advice generated through CARDS projects to study challenges for Croatian regional policy in the context of pre-accession, territorialisation and decentralisation and the institutional capacity for regional development at the county level (Fröhlich 2006;Malekovic et al 2011;. Second, research on civil service reform in Croatia as a precondition for PAR, reflects on the work of relevant CARDS projects, including the CARDS 2001 'Public Administration Reform' (Petričušić 2007). Chapter 6 elaborates on the achievements of the project.…”