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The Technical Efficiency of Slovak Water Companies: An Application of Network DEA NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Emília Zimková, Kristína Sičová, Ľubomír Pintér, Colin Lawson
The technical efficiency of water companies plays a crucial role in ensuring the reliable and sustainable delivery of clean and safe drinking water. It also influences the effective management of water and wastewater services. Services of this kind, usually provided by a monopoly supplier, offer operators no market incentives to innovate, or improve their efficiency. So, the mission of the regulatory
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Who Participates in Participatory Budgeting? Unravelling of Who Shows Up NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Martina Benzoni Baláž, Jozef Gašparík
Participatory budgeting (PB) is often described as one of the most successful instruments for participation, engaging people in decision-making, and prioritising where to allocate public money. It has travelled in the form of comprehensive administrative reforms and politically neutral devices to improve governance, especially when arriving to Europe and the Central Eastern European region (CEE). Recently
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Key Criteria Influencing Stakeholders’ Decision-making about PB Continuation: The Case of the Czech Republic NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Soňa Kukučková, Eduard Bakoš
Participatory budgeting (PB) is a modern trend involving citizens in decisions on distributing public resources. Assuming that the identified drawbacks of PB are described as internal and external factors, simple criteria were developed to predict the fate of PB. These criteria reflect stakeholders’ decisions about PB continuation in the future. Using panel data between 2017-2022 from the Czech Republic
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Reorganising Local Public Utilities: Where and Why We Can Argue for the Remunicipalization Trends? NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Veronika Petkovšek, Nevenka Hrovatin, Primož Pevcin
The paper is based on the use of evidence to scrutinise the effect of the Public-Private Partnership Act on the local public utility providers, where the context of the water and wastewater sector in Slovenia serves as an example. The Act affected the legal status of public enterprises, where solely public ownership was prescribed, and therefore demanded the reorganisation of existing public enterprises
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The Alleged Culprit of Poor Coordination of Integration of Health and Social Care Services for Very Ill Older Persons in Sweden, 2000-2022 NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Iwona Sobis
Despite numerous attempts to transform Swedish older adult care, similar problems regarding its coordination have persisted over the years. This literature review aims to identify which coordination mechanisms can be perceived as the alleged culprit of poor coordination of integrated health and social services for seriously ill older individuals in Sweden between 2000 and 2022. Classical and contemporary
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Hierarchical Clustering of the European Countries from the Perspective of E-government, E-participation, and Human Development NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Armenia Androniceanu, Irina Georgescu
The information society offers governments the opportunity to work closer with citizens and companies, to respond better to their requirements, and to create the conditions for the functioning of a modern, efficient, and democratic public administration. Due to the development of the information society, e-governance and e-participation appeared and developed, through which the communication of governments
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Reducing Error Rate in Property Tax Declaration Forms through Simplification and Highlighting Instructions NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Matúš Sloboda, Monika Šmeringaiová, Patrik Pavlovský
The paper is mixed-method research on reducing administrative burden and, more specifically, the learning costs of filling out a property tax declaration form. It presents the development process of a guidebook, which simplified the instructions and experimentally tested the effectiveness of the guidebook in lowering the error rate. Young Slovak adults (N=43) were divided into two groups; the treatment
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Assessing Individuals’ Perceptions of the Impact of Corruption on the Domains of Sustainable Development: A Cross-sectional Study in Palestine NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Ismail Iriqat
The main objective of this study is to assess the impact of corruption on the social, economic, environmental and political domains of sustainable development from individuals’ perspective. The study also attempts to relate individuals’ perceptions to their socioeconomic characteristics. The study uses the convenience sampling approach, where 521 responses are collected through an online-administered
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Procedural Challenges of Cross-border Cooperation and Consistency in Personal Data Protection in the EU NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Grega Rudolf, Polonca Kovač
Data protection is an increasingly important topic in the European administrative field at national and cross-border levels. Such a trend reflects different phenomena in contemporary society, which further leads to a more focused concern for a harmonised elaboration by the Member States despite their autonomy, in principle, regarding EU law implementation. However, as revealed by the Slovenian case
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EU Integration Coordination in Georgia: Evolution of the Coordination Model and Contingent Factors NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Nino Dolidze, Giorgi Bobghiashvili, Eka Akobia
The paper compiles a single case study on the national EU integration coordination in Georgia since 1991 to date. The paper aims to ground Georgia’s case in the existing academic literature with a detailed case description and testing of the EU integration coordination mechanisms in Georgia based on theories and models in the PA literature. Georgia’s coordination mechanisms are assessed against external
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The Covid-19 Pandemic as a Driver of More Responsive Social Procedures: between Theory and Practices in Slovenia NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2023-06-11 Matej Babšek, Polonca Kovač
Social and other administrative procedures are gaining importance because of the increasing complexity of administrative relationships brought about by the Covid‐19 pandemic, digitalisation, and other societal changes. When exercising social rights, procedural elements should be seen – both at the level of regulation and enforcement of the rules – as factors contributing to the welfare state, the rule
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Parental Leave Policy in European Countries: A Comparative Approach Using Cluster Analysis NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2023-06-11 Anna Bagirova, Natalia Blednova, Aleksandr Neshataev
Currently, parental leave policy is one of the key instruments of social policy in the family sphere in many European countries. Despite the common territorial context, parental leave design may vary greatly in different European countries. In this respect, the influence of differentiative parameters of the parental leave system on the social policy results in European countries is still overlooked
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Territorial Disparities in COVID-19 Vaccination in Romania NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2023-06-11 Anca Monica Marin
This paper explores relationships between vaccination coverage and indicators at the level oflocal administrative units for the case of rural localities of Romania. Positive correlations have been identified in relation to fiscal capacity, coverage of the population with general practitioners, COVID‐19 incidence rate and absence of a marginalized community within the locality. Regional differences
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Social Media Use in Central and Eastern European Cities: Defining Local Government-Citizen Relationships through Phases NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2023-06-11 Raphaël Zumofen, Vincent Mabillard, Martial Pasquier
Research has shown the potential of social media to disseminate important information as well as transform citizen engagement with government. However, implementation proves difficult, especially in public sector organizations. The success, impact and performance of these new forms of networked interactions are yet to be fully explored, especially at the local level. Many municipalities are experimenting
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A Policy Perspective on Regulating Disinformation in Romania during the Covid-19 Pandemic NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2023-06-11 Bianca Veronica Radu
Romania is one of the countries that adopted temporary sanctions against disinformation during the state of emergency, which lasted between March 16 and May 14, 2020. The scope of this paper is to analyze the decisions adopted by the National Authority for Administration and Regulation of Communications, which was the institution responsible for regulating the spread of fake news on the internet. We
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Policy Advisory Systems in Times of Crisis: A Case Study of Slovak Advisory Committees during Covid-19 NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2023-06-11 Róbert Martin Hudec
This paper aims to fill a gap in the understanding of policy advisory systems (PAS) during the Covid‐19 crisis. As governments rely on PAS in uncertain times of crisis, the state of PAS directly impacts the quality of policymaking. This paper studies the changes within Slovak Advisory committees (AC) at the executive level concerning the changes of government during the Covid‐19 pandemic. Slovakia
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A Case Study on the Development of Digital Competences of Teachers at the University of Ljubljana NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2023-06-11 Janez Stare, Maja Klun, Mitja Dečman
The renewed 2017 EU Higher Education Agenda expresses the intention to “develop and implement a digital readiness model” to assist higher education institutions, their staff, and students in implementing digital learning strategies and maximising the potential of cutting‐edge technologies such as learning analytics. The anticipated digital transformation will only be successful if higher education
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Feedback Monitoring Tools of the Russian Federal Tax Service NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2023-06-11 Evita Titkova, Aleksey Belianin
In recent years, the Russian Federal Tax Service has increasingly focused on processing taxpayer feedback through various communication channels. In this paper, we investigate the impact of this feedback system on the effectiveness of tax collection over the regions of the Russian Federation for 2017‐2021. Using a unique dataset of feedback received and a bunch ofcontrol variables with instruments
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Municipal Participatory Budgeting Designs in the V4 Countries NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2023-06-11 Michiel S. de Vries, David Spacek
Research on PB in CEE has been rather fragmented and has focused on the diffusion of PB, and sometimes on determinative factors inside the countries. Some comparative studies exist but address primarily initial steps of PB. This paper presents the outcomes of a research that focused on the design of participatory budgeting in the Visegrad countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia). The
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Can Institutionalization Be Considered a Trap in Defining Functional Cross-border Areas? Coopetition and Local Public Services in Borderlands NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Maciej Wojciech Molak, Jana Soukopová
Cross-border cooperation can be an example of a non-hierarchical co-governance tool based on the principle of multi-level governance, which was successfully implemented mainly thanks to European integration as part of building EU territorial cohesion. As a new tool, it has not been limited by the experience of public administration organizations to date, and it is largely based on coopetition aimed
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Historical-evolutionary and Retrograde Approach to the Study of Social Phenomena and Public Administration NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2022-12-07 František Ochrana
The author of the study presents a new approach to the study of dynamic changes in society. He calls it the historical-evolutionist and retrograde approach. The historical-evolutionist approach is based on the existence of the ontology of the problem. It is based on the reality of evolution. This approach makes it possible to reveal on the historical-evolutionary trajectory the key events (factors)
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Nudging Medicine Users to Handle Unused Medicines Correctly (a Study of the Czech Republic and the Slovak republic) NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Radek Kovács, František Ochrana, Nikoleta Jakuš Muthová, Beáta Mikušová Meričková
This paper on the case of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic examines the effect of information nudging on changing the behavior of medicine users with unused medicines. We introduce a new concept of nudge into the theory as an explanatory tool used in the form of subsumption. In our explanatory model, explanans represents the initial conditions of research (C). The explanatory theory of ET
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Digital Transformation of Slovenian Urban Municipalities: A Quantitative Report on the Impact of Municipality Population Size on Digital Maturity NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Arian Debeljak, Mitja Dečman
Rapid technological progress and its concomitant need for new skills, ways of working and collaborating, paired with dynamic socio-economic change, have highlighted the main challenge facing Europe’s urban municipalities. Being the part of the public sector closest to citizens and their needs, the challenge addresses digital transformation’s goals to support and promote broader growth in the digital
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Islamic Public Administration in Sunlight and Shadow: Theory and Practice NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Wolfgang Drechsler, Salah Chafik
The combination of theoretical principles and centuries-old, yet still functional, practices and institutions that together form the Islamic paradigm of public administration (PA) have customarily been absent from both academic literature and PA reform policies, not least in the NISPAcee region. With, e. g., the arrival of Peter’s Administrative Traditions last year, however, Islamic PA has now been
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State of Public Administration Scientific Research in the Visegrad Countries – A Bibliometric Analysis NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Anna Urbanovics
As a discipline in its own right, public administration has a variety of interpretations in European countries, which can be found at the intersection of three traditional disciplines: law, policy and management. The Central European region, such as the Visegrad countries (Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia), is of particular interest for the analysis of the state of public administration research
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The Public Participation of Civic Initiative Groups during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Romania. An Exploration of Public Participation Definitions, Obstacles, and Opportunities NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Carmen Voinea, Constantin Marius Profiroiu, Alina Profiroiu
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought significant changes to the daily lives of citizens, their interactions with their communities, the nongovernmental sector and the public administration, as well as threatening the continuity of the civic initiatives they had developed. This paper draws on the scientific literature on public participation and uses qualitative methods of inquiry (semi-structured interviews)
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On the Need to Include Passive Citizens in Public Participation Processes NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Michiel S. de Vries, Iwona Sobis
Research on enhancing public participation has increasingly concentrated on using novel instruments to collect opinions of citizens in order to inform the decision-maker about preferred policies. This paper argues that these hardly contribute to the achievement of the classic political-philosophical ideals of citizen involvement if only already active citizens become involved and passive ones remain
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The Great Recession of 2008 from the Subjective Well-being Perspective: Implication for Policy-making in the EU Countries NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Ondřej Kopečný
Literature review implies that despite the Great Recession of 2008 the economic policy paradigm continues to prevail in assessing and measuring the well-being in the EU countries. This means that the institutional goals and the follow-up policies also tend to favor economic over non-economic objectives. This paper examines to what extent the Great Recession has increased or decreased the influence
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Public Policy during COVID-19: Challenges for Public Administration and Policy Research in Central and Eastern Europe NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Juraj Nemec, Wolfgang Drechsler, Gyorgy Hajnal
Abstract The authors of this text decided to prepare a short article, with the aim to induce further discussion and to orient ongoing and future research efforts in Central and Eastern Europe but also worldwide. The article uses the method of a multi-country case study as the basis for proposing several critical research (and policy) challenges for our region – but many of them of a world-wide character
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Top officials in Turbulent Times: Converging Research Agendas in Europe East and West NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Tobias Bach, Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling, Katarína Staroňová
Article Top officials in Turbulent Times: Converging Research Agendas in Europe East and West was published on 01 Dec 2020 in the journal NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy (Volume 13, Issue 2).
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Top Officials’ Careers and the Relationship Between Politics and Administration NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Tobias Bach
Abstract This essay elaborates how the analysis of administrative careers – both as dependent and independent variables – can be leveraged to gain a more systematic understanding of the relationship between politics and administration. It highlights how the analysis of administrative careers can provide answers to pertinent questions about the relationship between politics and administration, including
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Functional Politicization in the Dutch Senior Civil Service: Evidence from Longitudinal Surveys and Qualitative Research (2007 – 2019) NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Alexandre Belloir, Caspar van den Berg
Abstract Although substantial advances have been made in our comprehension of functional politicization – political capacities and activities being taken on by bureaucrats in their administrative duties – questions surrounding its causal mechanisms remain. To shed light on these questions, we here explore increasing political polarization (and fragmentation) in Dutch politics and functional politicization
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The Politics of Appointment of Top Civil Servants: Career Backgrounds and Civil Service Politicization in the Czech Republic NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Marek Rybář, Milan Podmaník
Abstract This contribution seeks to answer the question whether the new civil service legislation that entered into force in 2015 in the Czech Republic led to the depoliticization of the country’s ministerial bureaucracy. To that end, we compare the career backgrounds of top civil servants before and after the entry into force of the new Civil Service Act. The article examines the career backgrounds
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Governing Illiberal Democracies: Democratic Backsliding and the Political Appointment of Top Officials in Hungary NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling, Fanni Toth
Abstract This paper examines the impact of democratic backsliding on the management of top officials in Hungary. Based on a unique data set of more than 1,600 top officials the article shows that the number of appointments to top positions increased in 2010 and subsequent years, during which Hungary experienced democratic back-sliding. Moreover, the data shows that turnover in top official positions
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Ministerial Advisers in Slovakia: Profiles and Career Paths, 2010 – 2020 NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Samuel Krajňák, Katarína Staronova, Heath Pickering
Abstract This study examines the transparency of the regulatory framework under which ministerial advisors exist within the politicized context of a Central and Eastern European perspective. We compare profiles and career paths of ministerial advisers under five different types of coalition governments and examine if variance across government types can be explained by type of party – established vs
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The Relationship between Politics and Administration at the Flemish Local Level: Intermunicipal Differences Explained NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Sofie Hennau
Abstract When it comes to political-administrative relations, New Public Management has aimed for a stronger differentiation between political and administrative matters and for an empowerment of the administration towards the political level. This article investigates the perceived degree of administrative discretion at the municipal level in the Flemish region of Belgium. We use data from a survey
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The Five Tasks of Public Value Management: Public Value as a Programme of Administrative and Societal Democratisation NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Michal Sedlačko
Abstract The aim of this essay is threefold: (1) to identify the tasks of public managers in public value management (PVM), (2) to start a debate on the relationships between autonomy, entrepreneurship and PVM from the perspective of institutional roles and management levels, and (3) to initiate a discussion about the transferability of PVM to diverse administrative systems and cultures. The public
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Independence despite Political Appointment ? The Curious Case of the Austrian Ombudsman Board NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Julia Dahlvik, Axel Pohn-Weidinger, Martina Kollegger
Abstract This paper addresses the politicization of public institutions through the case of national ombudspersons. While there is an established literature on the politicization of top public officials, we lack research on the politicization and / or de-facto independence of supreme or supervisory bodies, including ombuds institutions. In this paper, we combine the insights of three bodies of literature
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The Politics of Bureaucracy: A Continuing Saga NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2020-12-01 B. Guy Peters
Article The Politics of Bureaucracy: A Continuing Saga was published on 01 Dec 2020 in the journal NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy (Volume 13, Issue 2).
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Conclusions: TED Dialogue on Politico-Administrative Relations NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Tony Verheijen
Article Conclusions: TED Dialogue on Politico-Administrative Relations was published on 01 Dec 2020 in the journal NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy (Volume 13, Issue 2).
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The Innovative HR Practices of Regional Administrations: Is it a New Round of Civil Service Reform in Russia ? NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Alexey G. Barabashev, Tatiana V. Zaytseva
Abstract The paper examines the innovative HR practices of regional administrations in Russia and the inter-regional cooperation between HR departments of regional governmental bodies; in practice the dissemination is complicated by their relations with the federal bodies (national level) responsible for civil-service regulation. The authors use the case of Russia to describe the positive experience
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Using Game Theory in Public Domains: The Potential and Limitations of Security Games NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Zuzana Špačková, David Špaček
Abstract Since its origins, when it was mainly connected to the field of economics, game theory has brought important theoretic insights into many domains. Besides biology, philosophy or computer science, its findings have been applied to various fields of public policy. One specific area of public policy is that of security. Within the last two decades we have been witnesses to a significant increase
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Endangered Municipalities ? Case Study of Three Small and Critically Indebted Czech Municipalities NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Jakub Hornek, Petr Jüptner
Abstract This paper addresses the issue of Czech small critically indebted municipalities, which has been neglected in the European discourse after successful European consolidation reforms. The Czech Republic is one of the Central European countries where there is no relevant debate on the mandatory amalgamation of small municipalities that are often faced with a combination of multiple risk factors
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Why some Fail and others Succeed: Explaining the Academic Performance of PA Undergraduate Students NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Alina Maria Pavelea, Octavian Moldovan
Abstract The current research explores the influence of multiple factors (such as class attendance, previous academic performance, in-class involvement and attention, class schedule, gender and other control variables) on the academic performance of public-administration undergraduate students. The regression models developed based on the academic literature were tested on a sample of 1st-year students
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Modern Trends of Customs Administrations Formation: Best European Practices and a Unified Structure NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Nestor Shpak, Olga Melnyk, Marta Adamiv, Włodzimierz Sroka
Abstract The ambiguous trends in international trade in 2019 and the forecast for 2020 enhance the functional role of the customs bodies in every country. That is because the customs system largely determines the ease of conducting international trade, the security of international supply chains and economic development of the countries. Though many developed countries have been able to form progressive
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How to Attract and Retain Creative Class NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Katarína Vitálišová, Anna Vaňová, Janka Šúrová
Abstract Nowadays, relatively high attention of public policies, also from the EU point of view, is paid to creative territories and the promotion of the creative class. However, very few published studies have been conducted about the mobility and behaviour of the creative class in the spatial-development context. To contribute to the deeper research of this issue the paper analyses the results of
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The Transparency of Czech Foundations NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Jakub Pejcal
Abstract Non-governmental non-profit organizations can strive to gain the confidence of the general public in various ways, one of which is the meeting of basic legal requirements for transparency – the disclosure of financial statements. Based on a set of 528 Czech foundations, the article illustrates how the organizations approach their legal obligations and look for features that contribute to the
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Regulatory Cybernetics: Adaptability and Probability in the Public Administration’s Regulations NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Mirko Pečarič
Abstract Dynamic perspectives from systems theory and cybernetics are used in this paper to introduce the self-adaptable legal regulation or individual decision-making based on Bayes networks. The latter, by using similar elements as systems theory or cybernetics can help decision-makers not only to quantify the evidential strengths of hypotheses but also to take the most probable decision. Nowadays
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The Turnover of Palestinian Governments and its Selected Impacts on the Sustainability of Public Policy NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2020-06-01 Jehad Alaysa, Hussam Musa
Abstract The aim of this research is examining governmental turnover and its impact on the sustainability of public policy in the Palestinian context. We argue that the absence of a clear political program of governments and the absence of clear rules in professional and independent civil service allows Palestinian ministers to politicize the ministries they run, in addition to imposing their personal
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Questioning the Real Citizen-Centricity of e-Government Development: Digitalization of G2C Services in Selected CEE Countries NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2020-06-01 David Špaček, Mihály Csótó, Nicolae Urs
Abstract This paper presents findings of a pilot research study that focused on a selected area of e-government – digitalization of core government services to citizens (G2C) in selected Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries – namely in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Romania. Taking into account the literature available to date, it is a first attempt of its kind, even if mainly a qualitative
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Peter John – How Far to Nudge NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Jiří Špalek
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Principal-Agent Relation and Contracting-out for Employment Case Management to Enable Third-Country Nationals’ Transition to Work NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Esien Eddy Bruno
Abstract This paper analyzes the role of public and private employment-service agencies in contracting-out for employment case management under principal-agency relation to understand young third-country immigrants’ transition to work in Czechia, Poland, and Hungary. Existing research pointed to contracting-out as a major trend in public-service reforms when the government (principal) hires private
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Electronic Public Procurement: Process and Cybersecurity Issues NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Symbat Issabayeva, Botagoz Yesseniyazova, Matúš Grega
Abstract E-public procurement has a great potential to improve public procurement processes. It helps to increase competitiveness, and the use of digital technologies also minimizes transaction costs for business, increases trust and the transparency of decisions made by public customers. The goal of this case study is to analyze the functionalities of the Kazakh e-procurement web portal EPP, to evaluate
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Transaction Costs, Outsourcing, and the Public Procurement Review Process in the Czech Republic and Slovakia NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Markéta Šumpíková, Ina Ďurčeková
Abstract Public procurement is a crucial activity undertaken by the public sector. However, public procurement entails a wide range of transaction costs. While many papers focus on the ex-ante transaction costs, it is equally important to evaluate the types of ex-post transaction costs. The disputes stemming from conflicts between procuring authorities and proposers often bring additional costs to
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Public Administration Education in the CEE Countries: How has it Developed during the Recent Decades ? NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Primož Pevcin, David Špaček, Daniel Klimovský
Abstract 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
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Does Participatory Budgeting Bolster Voter Turnout in Elections ? The Case of the Czech Republic NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Soňa Kukučková, Eduard Bakoš
Abstract Though participatory budgeting (PB) is often discussed as a tool to bolster the level of civic participation and the quality of democracy, empirical research on the subject offers ambiguous results. In the Czech Republic, PB was introduced 5 years ago, and the number of implemented PBs has since increased substantially. The purpose of this article is to evaluate whether the use of PB is associated
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Bounded Rationality of Individual Action in the Consumption of Public Goods NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Beáta Mikušová Meričková, Nikoleta Jakuš Muthová
Abstract In order to gain a better understanding of human behaviour, Economics seeks to work with other disciplines such as Psychology, Sociology, or Anthropology (Behavioural Economics). Unlike neoclassical economic theory, behavioural economics does not assume a rational individual. On the contrary, it focuses on an irrational (bounded rational) individual while revealing what really influences his
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Sustainable Development of the Russian Arctic: Legal Implications NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Elena Gladun
Abstract Sustainable development has increasingly entered into the Arctic context. For Russia, the Arctic means enormous natural resources and potential for the country’s social and economic well-being. The focus of this paper is the dynamics of environmental and Arctic legislation in Russia; attention is also given to the rationale and justification of legal implications of sustainable development
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Arrangements for the Transfer of Social-Services Delivery to Non-Governmental Providers (Regional Practices, Russia) NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Galina Zabolotnaya, Andrey Larionov
Abstract The study focuses on the Russian practice of institutionalizing non-governmental social-service providers. The paper discusses the arrangements for the transfer of governmental social services under the terms of budget financing to commercial and non-profit organizations. The authors proceed from the fact that although there are uniform institutional conditions for the formation of the non-governmental
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Examining the Core Dilemmas Hindering Big Data-related Transformations in Public-Sector Organisations NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy Pub Date : 2019-12-01 Päivikki Kuoppakangas, Tony Kinder, Jari Stenvall, Ilpo Laitinen, Olli-Pekka Ruuskanen, Pasi-Heikki Rannisto
Abstract This study examines public organisations planning big data-driven transformations in their service provision. Without radical structural change or managerial system changes, leaders face dilemmas: simply bolting on big data makes little difference. This study is based on a qualitative empirical case study using data collected from the cities of Helsinki and Tampere in Finland. The three core