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Demir, Fatih. "PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REFORMS IN TURKEY." Public Administration Issues, no. 6 (2021): 63–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.17323/1999-5431-2021-0-6-63-83.
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This article focuses on public management reforms in Turkey and how the reform trajectory has changed over the past two decades. Reforms in Turkey represent a mixture of ideas and reform elements that are constantly evolving under the influence of foreign actors, especially the European Union, efforts to respond to global reform trends, and domestic political developments. The article is divided into three parts. The first part gives a brief picture of the political-administrative structure of the country. The second part provides a landscape of the reform initiatives in the last two decades. The third part examines the main challenges Turkey might face in the coming years in terms of implementing reforms and provides a discussion on how they can be addressed.
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Czarniawska-Joerges, Barbara. "The Wonderland of Public Administration Reforms." Organization Studies 10, no. 4 (October 1989): 531–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/017084068901000404.
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The students of public sector organizations are often surprised by the phenomenon of repetitive, costly and inconclusive reforms, which seem to be an unavoidable part of the public sector landscape. One possible reaction to it is to make a rationalistic critique and then to issue recommendations for improvement. An alternative is to look for a different perspective in analyzing functions of reform. A study of Sub-municipal Committee reform in Swedish municipalities is analyzed in terms of a symbolic accomplishment. In the light of the results, it is somewhat doubtful whether so-called reforms change organizational forms, but they do help to re-shuffle power, achieve a renewed legitimacy, re-socialize organization members and, in general, introduce variety into routines of organizational life.
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Nakrošis, Vitalis. "The Influence of Government Priorities on Public-Administration Reforms in Europe." NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy 8, no. 1 (June 1, 2015): 21–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/nispa-2015-0002.
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Abstract3 The article assesses how and the extent to which political or policy priorities of European governments condition reform processes and their results in times of crisis. This research is based on desk research and statistical analysis of the 2013 EUPAN survey data on public-administration reform initiatives in Europe. The article finds that the place of public-administration reforms on the governmental agenda partially explains the process of public-administration reforms, but it cannot account for the variation in the (perceived) reform results. Also, the results of this research confirm that EU-13 and (potential) candidate countries face more difficulties in reform implementation due to a combination of comprehensive reform strategies and weak administrative capacities. If the quantitative analysis was able to uncover some broad trends common to European public administrations, more qualitative approaches (causal process-tracing and case studies) are needed to capture specific contexts and changing processes in different European public administrations on which delivery progress is inevitably contingent. In order to explain why some windows of opportunities are seized while others are missed during the process of public-administration reforms, it is important to undertake process-tracing in within-case and between-case analysis and focus on causal configurations in the study of particular reform cases.
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Khadzhyradieva, Svitlana, Sergii Slukhai, and Anatolii Rachynskyi. "Public Administration in Ukraine: Adjusting to European Standards." NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy 13, no. 1 (June 1, 2020): 81–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/nispa-2020-0004.
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AbstractIn recent years many important developments have been observed in the Ukrainian public administration: reforms in the public-administration system and civil service, improvements in the regulatory framework for their functioning, extension of the rights and powers of local self-government, bringing their activities into compliance with the EU requirements as well as the transformation of civil service according to the European standards.However, reforming public administration in a post-socialist transition country is hampered by the lack of resources and by public mistrust. The Ukrainian state faces these challenges, as well, and it attempts to find the ways to leave behind the situation formed by decades of uncertain public policy and a flapping development vector.Since 2014 key events have taken place that dramatically affected the public administration in Ukraine, i.e.: the elections of a new president instead of the one who fled, the snap parliamentary elections, establishing new civil and military administrations, launching approximately 60 reforms aiming to give the nation a modern shape corresponding to world-wide trends. Special importance must be granted to the public administration (PA) reform because it plays a crucial role in securing the nation’s success in global competition.The goal of this study is reviewing the most important PA reforms occurring in Ukraine (decentralization, civil-service reform, anti-corruption measures, transparency, reviewing the functions of the central executive bodies). The research questions embrace the following: (a) what main directions in PA reforming are perceived by the Ukrainian government; (b) how are the national governmental body’s functions reviewed; (c) what are the obstacles and risks for PA reforming at the national level ? To address these questions, the respective legislation has been analyzed along with some practical steps applied by the government towards the improvement of public institutions’ operation.Our study demonstrates that Ukraine has moved quite a distance from the soviet legacy as concerns public administration; however, the country has not reached the point of no return yet: the positive reform achievements must be supported by steady efforts in order to make them irreversible and to significantly raise public administration’s efficiency.
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Kristinsson, Gunnar Helgi, and Pétur Berg Matthíasson. "Public Administration reforms and results." Veftímaritið Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla 10, no. 2 (December 15, 2014): 299. http://dx.doi.org/10.13177/irpa.a.2014.10.2.6.
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Сак, Ю. А. "Problems of realization of political and administrative reformation of public administration management system." PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION ASPECTS 7, no. 5 (August 2, 2019): 22–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.15421/151926.
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Political and administrative reform of the public administration system is the implementation of a setof public administration mechanisms aimed at modernizing and developing the public administrationsystem, optimizing public authorities and local self-government, changing communication between publicauthorities, forming an innovative model of public administration, and professionalizing the system of publicadministration directed on the formation of an efficient and effective system of public administration.The main problems of the implementation of the political and administrative reform of the publicadministration system should include the following:firstly, the absence of a substantiated and systematic Concept for the implementation of political andadministrative reform of the public administration system;secondly, the lack of specially trained personnel in the public administration system that are able to formulate and implement government-management decisions;thirdly, there are no systemic and optimal mechanisms for implementing the political and administrativereform of the public administration system;fourth, the lack of continuity in the implementation of reforms in society and their validity;fifth, the lack of scientifically substantiated models of the optimal system of public administration that canbe implemented in Ukraine;sixthly, the lack of a system for evaluating reforms in the public administration system;seventh, the slow struggle against corruption, affecting the quality of not only socio-economic reforms,but also reforming the system of public administration. Corruption not only impedes the development of theeconomy and civil society but also threatens modern reforms in Ukraine;eighth, the lack of political support for systemic reforms as the basis for the quality of such processes;ninth, lack of rationalization of the activities of state authorities and local self-government through therestructuring of the authorities and their optimization;tenth, the lack of information campaigns on the introduction of certain reforms, which negatively affectstheir perception by the population.
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Cierco, Teresa. "Public administration reform in Macedonia." Communist and Post-Communist Studies 46, no. 4 (October 14, 2013): 481–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.postcomstud.2013.08.002.
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The Western Balkan countries have made important steps in the advancement of democracy. However, public administration remains a field where reforms progress very slowly, due to a combination of reasons, ranging from economic and political to cultural ones. Macedonia is not an exception. This paper analyzes the main reasons for the slow pace of reforms in Macedonia’s public administration sector. The focus on public administration and the state contributes to understanding the priority of establishing a professional, efficient and transparent public administration system in a country in the process of European accession. The main research question is why reforms in Macedonia’s public administration sector have been so difficult to implement.
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Nemec, Juraj. "Public Administration Reforms in Slovakia: Limited Outcomes (Why ?)." NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy 11, no. 1 (June 1, 2018): 115–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/nispa-2018-0005.
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AbstractThe goal of this paper is to document and to analyse public administration reform dynamics and outcomes in three selected areas – transparency and accountability, civil service and local self-governments.The high level of potential access to government information in Slovakia does not “produce” increased accountability, predictability and also does not effectively serve as a tool to control corruption. We argue that citizens are not only victims, but also accomplishers: their tolerance for corruption, excessive bureaucracy and rentseeking is confirmed by many existing studies.Concerning civil service reform, Slovakia shows a substantial reform reversal towards politicisation and centralisation after 2001, which clearly threatens the fundamental features of democratic governance. Soon after the EU accession in 2004 major regressive changes took place, and the Civil Service Office was abolished in 2006. The new legislation in force from 2017 (forced by the EU conditionality) should return the Slovak civil service back on the right track – let us to see.With regard to self-government the reforms aimed towards the establishment of more independent local and regional self-government. However, the major issue here is the extreme fragmentation on the municipal level – almost 3,000 municipalities in the country, most of them bellow 1,000 inhabitants. Many studies confirm that amalgamation (or at least functional amalgamation) is necessary – but there is no political will to start it.What are the main lessons from the Slovak case ? The information provided indicates that the Slovak Republic belongs to the “standard” group of CEE countries – after the first wave of democratisation reforms immediately after 1989, most of the later changes were realised “thanks to” external motivations and pressures – and not always really welcomed. The specific issue, however, is the decentralisation reform in 2000 – 2005. This change, providing really fragmented local self-government by extra rights and responsibilities, was internally driven, with positive results from the point of view of self-government principles, but with many hurdles caused by too large a number of too small municipalities.
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Christensen, Tom, and Yongmao Fan. "Post-New Public Management: a new administrative paradigm for China?" International Review of Administrative Sciences 84, no. 2 (May 23, 2016): 389–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020852316633513.
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From three theoretical perspectives – instrumental, cultural and mythical – this article analyses the reasons for the worldwide emergence of post-New Public Management reforms and summarizes the typical features of those measures. In particular, it explores the link between post-New Public Management and public-sector reforms in China and argues that the ongoing reforms in China, including the super-ministry reform, the regulation of industry, the affordable housing policy, social and healthcare reforms, and the anti-corruption campaign, have shed light on various aspects of post-New Public Management measures. However, because China’s complex public administrative systems are more centralized than they are in many Western countries, it faces big challenges in deciding on and implementing reforms. Points for practitioners The examined administrative reforms demonstrate that China is imitating post-New Public Management reforms and adapting them to Chinese cultural traditions. China’s case reveals that the public sector is a complicated combination of elements from New Public Management and post-New Public Management reforms in a process where new reform elements are continuously added to old ones. China’s reforms are still ongoing; in the past years, China focused more on economic reform, decentralization and efficiency, but today its reforms are turning to social stability, political order and central control.
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Chung, Chung Kil. "Conditions of Successful Administrative Reform -A Historical Perspective-." Korean Journal of Policy Studies 8 (December 31, 1993): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.52372/kjps08001.
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When a new president is elected, it is generally assumed that one of the president's challenges is to reform government operations. Recent reforms in Korean government had been mainly those of changes of government structures: these changes have included the consolidation of organizational functions and the dismantling of inefficient and unpopular agencies. They were the so-called cutback reforms. In May 1988, when popularly elected President Rho announced the establishment of the Administrative Reform Commission (ARC), many believed that administrative reform would be critical to the president's effort to democratize the governmental processes of the Sixth Republic. In July 1989, the ARC submitted its proposals for reform to the Ministry of General Affairs(MGA): these proposals recommended a wide range of structural and functional changes. The MGA, serving as the secretariat to the ARC, distributed the report to each ministry and agency and invited their opinions.
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Jung In, Kim. "Factors Influencing Human Resource Professionals` Perceptions of the Effectiveness of Civil Service Reform in Six U.S. State Governments." Korean Journal of Policy Studies 28, no. 1 (April 30, 2013): 67–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.52372/kjps28104.
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Civil service reform has been carried out to achieve ideological, political, and technical changes in various countries. Most research about civil service reform has attempted to find factors that influence the extent and intensity of reform elements such as at-will employment, pay for performance, and broadbanding. No prior study has systematically examined factors that affect human resource professionals` perceptions of the effectiveness of civil service reforms. This study focused on that issue, using 2010 Civil Service Reform Assessment survey data from six U.S. state governments to examine the relationships between factors associated with human resources professionals` managerial competencies and demographic characteristics and their perceptions of the effectiveness of civil service reforms with regard to both goal achievement and process. Among its findings was that human resources professionals` competency in consultation on civil service reform with officials in other states was likely to be positively associated with their perceptions of the effectiveness of civil service reforms.
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Ongaro, Edoardo, and Walter Kickert. "EU-driven public sector reforms." Public Policy and Administration 35, no. 2 (April 10, 2019): 117–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0952076719827624.
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This paper is the introduction article to the special issue on EU-driven public sector reforms. European Union (EU) governance has dramatically changed since the outburst of the financial, economic and fiscal crises in 2007–2008. The dramatically changed circumstances have led to heightened EU influence in the field of the organization of the public sector of Member States, leading to major reforms of the public sector of Member States under conditions of radical fiscal consolidation. We call these ‘EU-driven public sector reforms’. The Greek, Hungarian, Irish and Italian cases of reform of the public sector in recent years, accounted for in this special issue, are different instances, with diverse outcomes, of this phenomenon. This article reviews the theoretical perspectives that can be employed for the study of EU-driven public sector reforms – these include notably the policy of conditionality; Europeanization; and a combination of learning, leadership and multiple streams theories – and the evidence about the features, doctrinal contents and effects of such reforms arising from the four case studies in the special issue.
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Kukovič, Simona, and Gorazd Justinek. "Modernisation Trends in Public Administration in Slovenia." Hrvatska i komparativna javna uprava 20, no. 4 (December 30, 2020): 623–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.31297/hkju.20.4.2.
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The theory of public administration offers a wide range of paradigms or approaches that are developed as a consequence of various triggers from internal and external environment. The classical model of bureaucratic organization as outlined by Weber is no longer appropriate in modern countries, although it still remains the basis of public administration because of numerous transformations and upgrades. The first major reforms were introduced to public administration via the more modern and market-oriented New Public Management. However, Post-New Public Management approaches have recently developed as a reflection of social and political changes. In this paper, we offer an overview of modern approaches, which do not appear in pure form, but in the form of hybrids. There is no consensus, either in science or in practice, on the optimal direction of public administration development or on the preferential approach. This decision is left to the governments, bearing in mind that each public administration reform and hybridization of approaches affect the complexity of public administration. Analysing the reform of the Slovenian public administration, we have found that the current Strategy of Public Administration Development for 2015-2020 is based on modern elements and values of Post-New Public Management approaches and that reforms strive for modernization, but (as shown by the current crisis) a serious effort will be required in the future to achieve this goal.
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Reinholde, Iveta. "“Parallel reforms and double efforts”: Latvia`s experience reforming administration." Socialiniai tyrimai 36, no. 3 (December 22, 2014): 5–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/st.2014.23027.
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The public administration reform process in Latvia from the beginning of the 1990s was separated into two parts - national administrative reform and administrative territorial reform – both with their own unique goals and implementation mechanisms. The divided coordination and management of the reforms have resulted in the two administrative subsystems. The paper’s aim is to explore the links between reforms in the national level and local level after 2004 by analyzing the main reform documents determining all reform activities at that time. The results will demonstrate the complexity of the reform management process, as the coordination of reforms is essential regarding all of its levels and sectors.
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Glinka, Beata, and Przemyslaw G. Hensel. "Reforms and identities." Journal of Organizational Change Management 30, no. 2 (April 10, 2017): 142–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jocm-05-2016-0090.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to show how the identities of the employees of Polish public administration are shaped in the process of public system reforms. Design/methodology/approach The findings are based on interviews with 40 employees of the Polish public administration. The authors have used open interviews as well as projective methods to discover and explore beliefs and attitudes of bureaucrats towards their work and the system of public administration. The selected sample was diversified both spatially and systematically to reflect the diversity of organisations that constitute the Polish public administration system. Grounded theory was used for data coding and interpretation. Findings The study indicates that organisational change initiatives designed to enhance the quality and efficiency of public administration may have negative impacts on the identities of public servants and may lead to their increased incapacity. Rather than sparking entrepreneurial behaviours and transforming bureaucrats into managers, introduction of the rhetoric of New Public Management and New Public Governance in the Polish public administration has contributed to strengthening of classical dysfunctions of bureaucracy. Research limitations/implications The results imply that the understanding of organisational changes in the Eastern European public sector – which are usually studied through the lenses of regulation and economy – would benefit from more sociologically and historically oriented studies. The limitations of our results are associated with the adopted qualitative subjective methodology. Practical implications Foreign-born templates of reforms may appear to be logical and coherent but they rest on certain assumptions about identities and value structures that are not necessarily congruent with the identities at the adoption site. For that reason, successful reform projects need to consider and problematise the content and shape of culturally conditioned identities. Social implications Understanding of public sector reforms’ implication should lead to the improvement of change programmes as well as to the evolution of public administration towards a form more desired by the society. It is especially important as Polish society considers public administration as one of factors influencing (in a negative way) the quality of life. Originality/value The paper provides insight into public administration reforms in Poland and their impact on public servants’ identities.
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Im, Tobin. "A Critical Review of New Public Management Reforms in Korea." Korean Journal of Policy Studies 17, no. 2 (February 28, 2003): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.52372/kjps17201.
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This paper argues the limits of New Public Management reforms. More precisely, it examines the process of introducing pulic service charters in Korean local governments simply benchmarking fom western countries. Having elaborated two opposing models, the Jupiter and Hercules models, this paper defines public service charter as a reform based on the Hercules model, which goes against Korean public administration based on Jupiter model. From this theoretical viewpoint, I examine the way of introducing this reform and discuss its questionable cost and effectiveness.
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Plaksin, S., and A. Zhoulin. "How to Modernize State Machinery: Administrative Reform and Reform of Public Service." Voprosy Ekonomiki, no. 2 (February 20, 2008): 73–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.32609/0042-8736-2008-2-73-82.
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The article contains an analytical survey of key reforms in public administration in Russia: administrative reform and reform of public service. All reform tools are analyzed from the point of view of "technological" approach, encouragement of public institutions development and traditional for Russia way of control of heads and authorities of executive bodies. Perspectives and success of reforms are examined through four strategies: "Inertia", "Mobilization", "Rentier" and "Modernization".
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Nunes, Pedro, and Concei��o Castro. "THE UNGOVERNABILITY OF REFORMS: THE HIGHEST CONTEXT COST RED TAPE COSTS IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REFORMS." Australian Journal of Business and Management Research 5, no. 12 (October 29, 2020): 01–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.52283/nswrca.ajbmr.20200512a01.
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This article aims to analise in the context of state and public administration reforms, the so-called context costs, known in the literature as red tape costs. In particular, there is a strong evidence that the reform mechanisms themselves, when inefficient, generate more costs, or more red tape costs for public administration, business and society in general.
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Nunes, Pedro, and Concei��o Castro. "THE UNGOVERNABILITY OF REFORMS: THE HIGHEST CONTEXT COST RED TAPE COSTS IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REFORMS." Australian Journal of Business and Management Research 5, no. 12 (October 29, 2020): 01–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.52283/nswrca.ajbmr.20210512a01.
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This article aims to analise in the context of state and public administration reforms, the so-called context costs, known in the literature as red tape costs. In particular, there is a strong evidence that the reform mechanisms themselves, when inefficient, generate more costs, or more red tape costs for public administration, business and society in general.
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Gorina, Evgenia, and Trang Hoang. "Pension Reforms and Public Sector Turnover." Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 30, no. 1 (June 24, 2019): 96–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jopart/muz009.
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Abstract Over the past decade, many states have reformed their retirement systems by reducing benefit generosity, tightening retirement provisions, introducing non-defined-benefit (DB) plan options and even replacing DB plans with defined-contribution plans. Many of these reforms have affected post-employment benefits that public workers will receive when they retire. Have these reforms also affected the attractiveness of public sector employment? To answer this question, we use state-level data from 2002 to 2015 and examine the relationship between state pension reforms and public employee turnover following the reforms. We find that employee responsiveness to the reforms was tangible and that it differed by reform type and worker education. These results are important because the design of public retirement benefits will continue to influence the ability of the public sector to recruit and retain high-quality workforce.
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Olexey Hrobust, Olexey Hrobust. "BACKGROUND PROVISIONS OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF THE LAW ENFORCEMENT SYSTEM." Socio World-Social Research & Behavioral Sciences 06, no. 04(01) (September 23, 2021): 99–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.36962/swd0604(01)2021-99.
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Study of the initial provisions of public administration in the field of law enforcement reform, we have limited their composition and establishment of features. It is established that the object of public administration in the field of law enforcement reform should be understood as public relations to which the tools of law enforcement are used, the actual methods of law enforcement, and the activities of entities implementing law enforcement. In turn, the subjects will be the central executive bodies that implement state policy in the field of law enforcement, local governments, and law enforcement agencies. The tasks of public administration of the law enforcement system include: establishing a system of communication between law enforcement agencies to perform the tasks assigned to them by law; formation of financial support for the activities of law enforcement agencies; development and implementation of law enforcement reforms; formation of resource support for the implementation of reforms and the functioning of law enforcement agencies; formation of information support for the implementation of reforms in the law enforcement sphere; organization of training and retraining of law enforcement personnel; organization of information and communication system of interaction of law enforcement agencies with international police organizations. The implementation of these tasks will ensure the adoption of highly effective public administration decisions on the development and implementation of reforms in the law enforcement sphere, which should ensure the effectiveness of the law enforcement system. The selection of the following principles of the law enforcement system, the observance of which should be aimed at public administration decisions: legality; justice; equality; professionalism; competence; political ness; continuity; independence. Keywords: public administration, law enforcement, law enforcement reform, highly effective public administration decisions, legality, justice, equality, professionalism, competence, policy, continuity, independence.
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Wang, Bing. "Three paradigms of public administration: an analysis of the current status of public administration." Chinese Public Administration Review 1, no. 3/4 (January 1, 2006): 199. http://dx.doi.org/10.22140/cpar.v1i3/4.24.
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Historically, there have been three paradigs of public management, namely, the Machiavelli-Hobbes Paradign (MHP), the Wilson-Weber Paradigm (WWP), and the Ostron-Hayek Paradigm (OHP). These paradigms have different characteristics ad face different challenges. After more than 100 years of development throughout the western countries, the WWP has achived its utmost, having emerged as an obstacle to further development. Given this, Western coutries are now embracing the OHP, and the New Public Management is a reform that is fostrering this transformation. In China, however, the situation is very differnt. Due to the feudal traditions and the dominant governance ethod (rule by man, not by law), public administration in China contains several aspects of the MHP. Currently, China's most pressing challenge encompasses instituting reforms that will cultivate a public administrative system where the rule of law prevails. The change to bureaucracy and establishment of WWP is ultimately more critical than the New Public Management.
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Stan, Sergiu-Vlad, and Marius-Anton Stupar. "The Public Management Reform in Romania." Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty: Economics & Administrative Sciences 5, no. 1 (2020): 30–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.18662/lumeneas/5.1/19.
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Romania's accession to the EU depended largely on the ability of Romanian public authorities to implement reforms among public organizations in the country. Globally, however, a successful public administration has become a key factor in determining a nation's competitive advantage. The purpose of this article is to emphasize the efforts of the Romanian public administration to submit to the process of administrative reform and as a consequence to contribute to the creation of an administrative reform strategy based on which Romanian public organizations can be reformed.
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Yunho, Kim, Jung Yunjin, Seoh Dongwook, and Im Tobin. "Higher Public Service Motivation for Accepting Public Sector Pension Reform? Evidence from Korean Government Organizations." Korean Journal of Policy Studies 34, no. 1 (April 30, 2019): 23–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.52372/kjps34102.
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Organizational reforms that employees do not voluntary accept are likely to negatively affect organizational effectiveness in the long term. We conducted an empirical analysis with survey data by reviewing related studies on public service motivation (PSM) and acceptance of organizational changes, the goal being to verify the relationship between government employees’ PSMand their acceptance of public sector pension reform in Korea. Results show that public servants highly driven by PSM are willing to accept this pension reform even though it reduces their own benefits. This study is distinguished from existing literature of PSM and responses to organizational changes because it reduces the possibility of endogeneity problems.
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Istrefi, Remzije, and Arben Hajrullahu. "Public Administration in an Atypical Transition and the Need for the Agents of Europeanisation in Kosovo." Hrvatska i komparativna javna uprava 20, no. 2 (June 30, 2020): 299–330. http://dx.doi.org/10.31297/hkju.20.2.5.
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This article investigates public administration reform in Kosovo by: a) analysing the extent to which an atypical transition affects administrative and governance reforms, b) examining the Europeanisation process and efforts to harmonise legislation with the European Union’s acquis communautaire as the main driving force towards a successful transition, and c) reiterating the relevance and function of the educational system in the Europeanisation process. The article addresses the following question: can the Europeanisation process be accomplished successfully when the educational system, which is limited in scale, does not manage to generate a sufficient number of Europeanisation agents? In post1999 Kosovo, public administration has been undergoing continuous reforms to detach itself from the discriminatory legacy of communist and Serbian rule, to transfer authorities from internationally established bodies to local ones, to enhance capacity-building through international assistance, and to move forward with further reforms as part of Kosovo’s EU integration efforts. Public administration reforms remain affected by past legacies, namely the atypical transition characterised by a post-WWII communist dictatorship, the Serbian apartheid-like discrimination in the 1990s, an UN-led interim administration, and challenges of capacity-building. The article concludes that without a fully consolidated and crisis-resistant democracy neither the initiated public administration reform based on the values of good governance, nor the “fair and just” distribution of resources in society have a perspective. For instance, to comply successfully with the public administration reform obligations set out in the EU’s Stabilisation and Association Agreement, Kosovo needs greater capacities and professionals serving as Europeanisation agents. As a result, much larger investments in education, research, and development appear to be paramount. An increase in the quality of education and study capacities, as well as better opportunities for social inclusion would improve the performance of public administration and enhance good governance.
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Кулаков, Олексій. "РЕАЛІЗАЦІЯ РЕФОРМИ ДЕРЖАВНОЇ СЛУЖБИ ЩОДО БІЛЬШОЇ УЧАСТІ ГРОМАДЯН В ІНВЕСТИЦІЙНИХ ПРОЦЕСАХ ДЛЯ ЄВРОПЕЙСЬКОЇ ТА ЄВРОАТЛАНТИЧНОЇ ІНТЕГРАЦІЇ УКРАЇНИ." Economical 1, no. 1(22) (2020): 66–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.31474/1680-0044-2020-1(20)-66-71.
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The purpose of the article is to analyze the implementation of civil service reform to increase citizen participation in investment processes for European and Euro-Atlantic integration of Ukraine. Methodology. Various forms of citizen participation in public administration processes, which allows to form a good balance of advantages and disadvantages in this process for the implementation of European integration reforms is based on the methods of theoretical generalization, grouping and comparison have been researched. The analysis of the main advantages and disadvantages of promoting citizen participation in public administration processes is based on the methodology of system analysis and synthesis. Results. It was identified on the basis of the analysis of the main advantages and disadvantages that the advantages of citizen participation in public administration processes far outweigh the disadvantages to ensure better quality of services and living standards of citizens. The main shortcomings of citizen participation in public administration processes have been studied, which will help solve the problems of citizen participation in public administration processes in the context of European integration. Various forms of citizen participation in public administration processes have been developed in order to form a good balance of advantages and disadvantages in this process in order to implement European integration reforms. Different levels of citizen participation in public administration processes are analyzed, which contributes to the effective involvement of citizens in public administration processes for the implementation of European integration reforms. It was found that supporting the processes of socio-economic reform of the civil service through the strategy of public administration will help to implement the main European administrative reforms of public administration in Ukraine. Based on the analysis, it is concluded that supporting the transformation processes in Ukraine by investing in civil service reform helps to build the basic European principles of public administration in Ukraine. It is substantiated that measures to support civil society will be possible due to the training of civil servants, which will provide an opportunity to build the stable and efficient economy of Ukraine. Scientific novelty. The expediency of creating different levels of citizen participation in public administration processes is substantiated: informing, consulting, recommendations, joint development of plans, joint decisions, delegation. Practical significance. The results of the study form the scientific and practical basis for conducting various analytical and forecasting studies in terms of justifying greater participation of citizens in investment processes of public administration.
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Khomytskyi, Vitalii. "New Public Management: US Experience for Ukraine." Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Public Administration 11, no. 1 (2019): 46–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2616-9193.2019/11-5/7.
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Purpose. The purpose of the article is to analyse the effectiveness of reforms based on new public management concept in the United States and identify key elements for implementation in Ukraine. Methodology. The results of the study were obtained by the following methods: systematic and comparative methods - to determine the nature and features of the historical formation of new public management reforms in the United States, based on understanding administrative activities through the prism of private economy, public service orientation on efficiency and effectiveness; methods of analysis and synthesis - to identify complex historical factors and interests that led to the formation and functioning of the new public management system. Findings. In accordance with the study objectives, the author: 1) established and analysed the theoretical sources and methodological principles of the study of the concept of new public administration by T. Goebler and D. Osborne; 2) clarified the significance of the concept of the new public administration of T. Goebler and D. Osborne for the system of modern scientific research of the public sector; 3) revealed the meaning of the concept of new public administration as an administrative process; 4) analysed the problems of public administration efficiency in the context of the concept of new public management during the reforms in the United States; 5) identified the possibilities of applying the concept of new public management in carrying out reforms of modern administration processes in Ukraine. Originality. Author has proposed vision and interpretation of historical factors that led to the formation of a new public management. The article contains an analysis of the historical events and the practical consequences of the reforms in the United States. Practical value. Regarding the government change in Ukraine and the volatile economic situation due to the coronavirus pandemic, the implementation of elements of new public management concept might help increase the effectiveness of civil service reform in Ukraine. The materials of the article can be used in the practice of public administration; in the development of courses in public administration; to improve training programs and plans for government officials; in preparation of textbooks, educational and methodical manuals.
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Nakrošis, Vitalis. "THE QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REFORMS IN POST-COMMUNIST COUNTRIES." Baltic Journal of Political Science 6, no. 6 (July 7, 2017): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/bjps.2017.6.10741.
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In this article we describe the adoption and execution of public administration reforms in Central and Eastern Europe between 2008 and 2013, as well as examine whether post-communist countries differ from other groups of European countries in terms of the substance of reforms and their implementation process. Instead of following popular Western administrative theoretical frames, we adopt the policy process approach. We focus on the role of policy actors during reform policymaking and implementation at the level of policy subsystems. More specifically, we employ the rational-comprehensive and garbage can perspectives to understand the reform processes in the post-communist region. Our research is based on the statistical analysis of survey data and two case studies of reforms initiated by the 2008-2012 Lithuanian government. The article concludes that countries in Central and Eastern Europe share some common characteristics: they focused on the issues of civil service and public or administrative services, their reform policy was often formulated on a top-down basis, and its execution often lacked adequate capacities. Despite a rational reform façade in these countries, the implementation of governance change appears to be quite erratic, as anticipated in the garbage can perspective. This can have negative consequences on the effectiveness of public policy, continuing to generate public distrust in post-communist state institutions.
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Nakrošis, Vitalis. "THE QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REFORMS IN POST-COMMUNIST COUNTRIES." Baltic Journal of Political Science 6, no. 6 (February 12, 2018): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/bjps.2017.6.11583.
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In this article we describe the adoption and execution of public administration reforms in Central and Eastern Europe between 2008 and 2013, as well as examine whether post-communist countries differ from other groups of European countries in terms of the substance of reforms and their implementation process. Instead of following popular Western administrative theoretical frames, we adopt the policy process approach. We focus on the role of policy actors during reform policymaking and implementation at the level of policy subsystems. More specifically, we employ the rational-comprehensive and garbage can perspectives to understand the reform processes in the post-communist region. Our research is based on the statistical analysis of survey data and two case studies of reforms initiated by the 2008-2012 Lithuanian government. The article concludes that countries in Central and Eastern Europe share some common characteristics: they focused on the issues of civil service and public or administrative services, their reform policy was often formulated on a top-down basis, and its execution often lacked adequate capacities. Despite a rational reform façade in these countries, the implementation of governance change appears to be quite erratic, as anticipated in the garbage can perspective. This can have negative consequences on the effectiveness of public policy, continuing to generate public distrust in post-communist state institutions.
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Do Vale, Helder Ferreira. "Educational Reforms and Decentralization in Brazil, South Africa, South Korea and Spain." Lex localis - Journal of Local Self-Government 14, no. 3 (July 31, 2016): 591–612. http://dx.doi.org/10.4335/14.3.591-612(2016).
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The article assesses the education reforms in four countries: Brazil, South Africa, South Korea, and Spain. The main objective of the comparison is to identify the elements of the reforms that led to different educational performances. By taking South Korea as a model of successful education reform, the comparative analysis shows that the educational reforms in Brazil, South Africa, and Spain have set these countries aside from the path toward high-performing educational systems. In these countries, differently from South Korea, decentralizing education reforms have been dominated by conflict over the distribution of fiscal and administrative resources.
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Sauk Hee, Park. "Consolidating Public Sector Reform through Policy Transfer in Korea: Global Diffusion and Local Control." Korean Journal of Policy Studies 27, no. 3 (December 31, 2012): 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.52372/kjps27301.
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In Korea, demands for economic and social democratization increasedafter 2000, as the country dealt with economic recession after the 1997 Asianfinancial crisis and with other problems resulting from mismanaged domesticpolicies. In response, the Korean state carried out unprecedented reform of thepublic sector to address these problems by streamlining state capacity. Theprimary objectives of this article are to understand Korean public sector reformtogether with its domestic political factors from a policy transfer perspective,and to suggest an alternate model for the reforms. The reforms, which took placeduring the Kim Dae-Jung and the Roh Mu-Hyun administrations, were consolidatedthrough proactive policy transfer by politico-bureaucratic decisions inorder to establish a new statecraft despite the global diffusion of policy trends.Investigation of its domestic political circumstances and historical contextreveals that the reforms were not direct emulations of global norms, but ratheran attempt to use a mixture of models to raise the quality of government.
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Shin, Doh C., and Jack R. Vanderslik. "Education Reforms and Student Achievement in the American States." Korean Journal of Policy Studies 6 (December 31, 1991): 27–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.52372/kjps06003.
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The educational reforms by the states in the early 1980s were aimed at toughening the school environment and enriching student learning. Critics said that gains in schooling and learning are incompatible goals. We found small but consistent gains in learning, but inconsistent consequences of reform on schooling. State-imposed reforms accomplished more in learning than schooling, but the measurement of educational changes are too rough to make elaborate statistical analyses fruitful. "Legislators legislated. Bureaucrats regulated. Commissions wrote reports. And all these groups pointed fingers and accused. The result was inability to address the real issues of schooling in America." Mary Hatwood Futrell (1989) "Don't destroy education reform now; it's working." Bill Honig (1990) "Many states have beefed up academic requirements for high school graduation. Much has been heard of stiffer certification requirements for teachers. The spasms have given us more homework for students, merit pay for teachers, career ladders, alternative schools, something for everyone. And the level of academic achievement across the nation is pathetic. James Kilpatrick (1990) "Reforms in public schools to date have been superficial and that nothing short of restructuring is needed. " Chris Pipho (1989)
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Schechter, Chen, and Haim Shaked. "Leaving fingerprints: principals’ considerations while implementing education reforms." Journal of Educational Administration 55, no. 3 (May 2, 2017): 242–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jea-01-2016-0014.
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Purpose Turning an education reform program into school reality greatly depends on the principal. In certain cases, principals choose to implement reform instructions only partially. The purpose of this paper is to explore school principals’ considerations leading to their decisions not to fulfill a national reform’s guidelines in a full and complete way. Design/methodology/approach This qualitative study is based on interviews with 59 school principals. Generating themes was an inductive process, grounded in the various perspectives articulated by principals. Findings Data analysis yielded three major considerations: adjusting to school reality; caring for teachers; and using discretion. Research limitations/implications Longitudinal studies in order to explore how principals’ considerations and mediation strategies evolve and unfold throughout the reform implementation would be useful. The authors suggest complementing principals’ verbally expressed perceptions with more objective measures such as direct observations (recorded on video and then reflected upon), to evaluate their considerations and mediating strategies. Practical implications Providing prospective and in-service principals with leadership education programs in order to develop an upgraded understanding of their role as mediating agents between the inner and outer spheres of school-life. Originality/value As principals serve as mid-level policymakers who leave their “fingerprints” on policies received from the authorities, exploring these considerations may contribute to both the scholarship and the practice of the leadership role in times of education reforms.
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Peter, Idoko. "The New Public Management and the Public Sector Performance." Journal of Advance Research in Business Management and Accounting (ISSN: 2456-3544) 5, no. 3 (March 31, 2019): 08. http://dx.doi.org/10.53555/nnbma.v5i3.9.
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The proliferation of reforms in public administration based on the principles and instruments of the New Public Management (NPM) have triggered protest from and collective action by many professional groups in various sectors (healthcare, education, justice, social work, research.) and raised questions about the future of professionals working in the public service, particularly as concerns their autonomy. This exploratory study indicates that public administration in the 21st century is undergoing dramatic change, especially in advanced economies, but also in many parts of the developing world such as Nigeria. Globalization and the pluralization of service provision are the driving forces behind these changes. Policy problems faced by governmentsare increasingly complex, wicked and global, rather than simple, linear, and national in focus. And yet the prevailing paradigms through which public sector reform are designed and implemented are relatively static and do not fully encompass the significance or implications of these wider changes. While public sector reforms in the developing world such as Nigeria are influenced by policy experiments and organizational practices originating in OECD countries, they tend to operate within the traditional public administration paradigm. Consequently, there is often a discrepancy between the thrust of public sector reform efforts in developing country contexts and wider shifts in the nature of governance and contemporary approaches to publicmanagement grounded in OECD experience. It was concluded therefore that Nigeria has embraced the concept of new public management from their western originator but its core principles and tenets are not strictly applied in the management of public sector administration. It was recommended among others that for us to achieve the tenets of new public management in Nigeria, the government need to be honest, transparent, probity and accountability in the political leadership management including the managers in the public sector organizations.
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Peter, Idoko. "The New Public Management and the Public Sector Performance." Journal of Advance Research in Business Management and Accounting (ISSN: 2456-3544) 5, no. 1 (January 31, 2019): o1—o8. http://dx.doi.org/10.53555/nnbma.v5i1.18.
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The proliferation of reforms in public administration based on the principles and instruments of the New Public Management (NPM) have triggered protest from and collective action by many professional groups in various sectors (healthcare, education, justice, social work, research.) and raised questions about the future of professionals working in the public service, particularly as concerns their autonomy. This exploratory study indicates that public administration in the 21st century is undergoing dramatic change, especially in advanced economies, but also in many parts of the developing world such as Nigeria. Globalization and the pluralization of service provision are the driving forces behind these changes. Policy problems faced by governmentsare increasingly complex, wicked and global, rather than simple, linear, and national in focus. And yet the prevailing paradigms through which public sector reform are designed and implemented are relatively static and do not fully encompass the significance or implications of these wider changes. While public sector reforms in the developing world such as Nigeria are influenced by policy experiments and organizational practices originating in OECD countries, they tend to operate within the traditional public administration paradigm. Consequently, there is often a discrepancy between the thrust of public sector reform efforts in developing country contexts and wider shifts in the nature of governance and contemporary approaches to public management grounded in OECD experience. It was concluded therefore that Nigeria has embraced the concept of new public management from their western originator but its core principles and tenets are not strictly applied in the management of public sector administration. It was recommended among others that for us to achieve the tenets of new public management in Nigeria, the government need to be honest, transparent, probity and accountability in the political leadership management including the managers in the public sector organizations.
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Williams-Elegbe, Sope. "The evolution of the world bank’s procurement framework: Reform and coherence for the 21st centur." Journal of Public Procurement 16, no. 1 (March 1, 2016): 22–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jopp-16-01-2016-b002.
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In 2011, the World Bank announced its intention to conduct a holistic review and reform of its procurement framework. This reform was intended to ensure that its procurement system, which is the means through which the Bank disburses developmental loans and grants is in line with modern trends in procurement, is flexible enough to respond to unforeseen challenges and is coherent. This paper examines both how Bank procurement has evolved since the first formal regulations were issued in 1964 and the implications of the recent reforms for the Bank and its borrowers. Readers will see that ongoing reforms evidence a significant change for the Bank's approach to procurement and its relationship with its borrowers and will dramatically affect the way the Bank-funded procurements are conducted.
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Nakrošis, Vitalis. "The Agendas of Public Administration Reforms in Lithuania: Windows of Opportunity in the Period 2004 – 2017." NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy 11, no. 1 (June 1, 2018): 91–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/nispa-2018-0004.
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Abstract The article analyses changes in the reform agendas of the Lithuanian government in the period 2004 – 2017. Instead of exploring the systemic and formal agendas of administrative reforms based on government strategies and programmes, it focuses on the institutional and actual agendas of Lithuanian authorities using a set of 20 reform initiatives. In addition to the analysis of the institutional context, we also assess a coupling logic and the exercise of political or bureaucratic entrepreneurship during reform policy making. The article finds that budgetary constraints and the reform policy priorities of the Lithuanian governments explain the ambitious agendas of administrative reforms during the 2008 – 2012 government and, to a lesser extent, during the 2016 – 2020 government. The political logic of coupling and political entrepreneurship dominated the flow of the reform process when these governments were in office, producing the top-down approach to reform policy making. In contrast, the 2004 – 2006, 2006 – 2008 and 2012 – 2016 governments relied strongly on a policy-centred logic of coupling together with bureaucratic entrepreneurship, which resulted in the bottom-up approach to administrative reforms in the country.
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Shtatina, Marina. "Administrative Reforms in India." Proceedings of the Institute of State and Law of the RAS 14, no. 1 (March 14, 2019): 166–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.35427/2073-4522-2019-14-1-shtatina.
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Unlike other developing countries, India abandoned the concept of catching-up development, and all its administrative reforms supported the ideology of Indian identity by introducing the most promising scientific achievements in the field of public administration. We identify three stages of administrative reforming in India: 1) the stage of formation of the national public administration; 2) the stage of the state interventional development of the public administration; 3) the stage of liberalization and informatization of the public administration. Since India had received independence, the new state used of the achievements of the colonial civil service and maintained institutions guaranteeing the unity of the state. The Indian government has succeeded in establishing a "living democracy" as the inherent part of Indian culture which supports the traditions of pluralism and is based on the application of rule by consensus and accommodation. Established in 1966, the First Administrative Reforms Commission ensured the leading role of the state in economic development. It improved the organizational foundations of public administration, including the mechanisms of socio-economic planning. The Commission’s reports prepared the base for constitutional recognition of India as a socialist republic. The most important instrument of the Union public administration was the licensing system, which extended to all spheres of economic activity and spawned the creation of numerous inspections with broad jurisdictional powers. The economic crisis and the inability of the Union to solve the social problems by interventionist methods — these were the reasons of the liberal reforms of the 1990s — 2000s. The rejection of the license system, the transition to the methods of soft administrative and legal regulation, the empowerment of decentralized bodies have changed the main areas of activity of the Indian public administration. The National Institute for Transforming India has provided the solutions to the problems in 80 areas of the country’s socio-economic development, acting through the mediation of all stakeholders — central, state and local government officials, public organizations and citizens. Liberal reforms are also aimed at democratizing governance and forming a citizen-oriented administration. They are focused on the implementation of innovative e-technologies in business and public administration.
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Nunes Silva, Carlos. "Local Political Leadership in Portugal: Excepcionalism or Convergence Towards a 'Mayoral Model'?" Lex localis - Journal of Local Self-Government 7, no. 3 (October 14, 2009): 243–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.4335/85.
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the reform of institutional forms that frame local government in Portugal, and to put them into a comparative European perspective. The paper addresses the following research question: To what extent have Portuguese local government reforms shown convergence or divergence with the local political leadership models in Europe over the last three decades of democracy? We hypothesized that reforms affected the local government system in different ways, using some of its components and following more explicitly international trends than others. This hypothesis was tested against the model of local political leadership, including the rules governing the recruitment of mayors and local councillors. This study is based on both archival research for the Portuguese case and the literature review for the survey of international trends. The findings indicate the existence of similarities between reforms in Portugal and reforms in other European countries. But they also indicate divergence in some important dimensions of the local government system.
KEYWORDS: • local government reform • institutional forms • recruitment • models of local political leadership • Portugal
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Khan, Imran Ullah, and Shahzad Hussain. "Bureaucracy and Public Management Reforms." Hrvatska i komparativna javna uprava 20, no. 1 (March 31, 2020): 57–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.31297/hkju.20.1.3.
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The paper examines administrative performance and public management reforms in Pakistan. The study is based on the expert opinion of the civil servants gathered via 27 semi-structured interviews. Pakistan has inherited the administrative structure from the British colonial raj. Although there have been numerous reforms aimed at improving administrative performance, none of them have been implemented adequately. The changes pursued in the first two decades were related to enhancing the administrative performance by creating an adequate structure of administrative posts and ensuring a fair remuneration system. The first full reform package was presented in the 1970s with steps to improve the civil service performance and nationalization of significant banks and industries. The New Public Management (NPM) inspired the Pakistani government to adopt the policies of managerialism and privatization during the 1990s. The government intended to remove the status quo and privatize the public sector industries. This reform was successful only with regard to the privatization of some sectors and banks. The remaining reform programme failed mostly because of political instability, weak political will, political interference with the reform process, etc. The semi-structured interviews conducted with Pakistani civil servants tackled the public administration problems and their possible solutions. The respondents suggested that an indigenous public management model should be created. They indicated that the government should firmly support the implementation of reform measures. Civil servants should get salaries according to their expertise. There must be a well-defined and up to date performance and evaluation system able to ensure performance-based promotions, rewards, and punishments.
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Meyer-Sahling, Jan-Hinrik. "Varieties of legacies: a critical review of legacy explanations of public administration reform in East Central Europe." International Review of Administrative Sciences 75, no. 3 (September 2009): 509–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020852309337670.
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This article examines the status of historical legacies in debates on the reform of public administration in East Central Europe. It identifies limitations of existing accounts and derives three dimensions for the further development of legacy explanations of administrative reform in East Central Europe. First, legacy arguments tend to zoom in on the negative effects of the communist past. Yet there is not one but many legacies that matter for post-communist reforms and these many legacies have to be carefully distinguished and conceptualized. Second, legacy explanations tend to search for broad similarities between the administrative past and the present set-up of East Central European administrations in order to demonstrate the importance of the legacy. The identification of similarities is, however, not sufficient for the identification of legacy effects. Instead, the article argues in favour of the identification of causal mechanisms of legacification to explain recent administrative developments in East Central Europe. Finally, the article draws attention to the interaction of legacy effects with other determinants of administrative reform such as European integration and political parties. Points for practitioners This article addresses primarily policy-makers who deal with the reform of public administration in Central and Eastern Europe. It addresses the issue of how administrative traditions and, generally, historical legacies affect the design of administrative reforms and the successful implementation of reforms. Conventional wisdom concentrates on the negative effects of the communist-type administration on contemporary reform in Central and Eastern Europe. This article advances a more differentiated perspective on the impact of historical legacies. It argues that communist administrations evolved over time and differed considerably across countries. The administrative experience of other historical periods further interacts with the communist legacy of the past. The article also identifies various mechanisms that help to ‘transport’ the legacy of the past into the contemporary administrative reform context. For administrative policy-makers this approach implies that they cannot take for granted that the effect of the communist legacy is identical across countries and they cannot even assume that the communist administration will be long-lasting after transition. Instead, it is recommended that the specifics of local administrative traditions and the kind of mechanisms that produce legacy effects in the context of contemporary reform efforts be examined more closely.
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Cejudo, Guillermo M. "Explaining change in the Mexican public sector: the limits of New Public Management." International Review of Administrative Sciences 74, no. 1 (March 2008): 111–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020852307085737.
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The Mexican public sector has undergone significant transformations in recent decades. This article argues against the view that these changes are the result of New Public Management-style reforms. Even though the Mexican government has applied some of the tools associated with this paradigm, the essential NPM doctrines — granting more autonomy to public agencies and government officials, and using market mechanisms to promote competition in the public sector — have been absent from the agenda. The Mexican experience exposes two erroneous assumptions in the international debate about NPM: that there is a global trend of similar national reforms and that every change in the public sector is part of this new paradigm. Instead, the changes in the Mexican public sector are the result of incremental adjustments to two broader domestic processes: economic liberalization and political democratization — which have led to a smaller and relatively more accountable administration. Points for practitioners This article suggests that not all reforms are the result of New Public Management initiatives. It points towards alternative explanations for change in the Mexican public sector and identifies political democratization and economic liberalization as the main sources of change. This view challenges existing accounts of public sector change in developing countries and suggests a more complex process of reform. The main lesson for practitioners is that, when analysing reform experiences, they should look at the underlying causal processes rather than at the official rhetoric. Moreover, the article reminds practitioners that NPM is only one among several sources of doctrines for changing the public administration.
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Kot, Sebastian, and Ján Dobrovič. "Process Model of the Economic Efficiency of the Financial Administration of an EU Member State." SHS Web of Conferences 90 (2021): 01009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20219001009.
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The current reform of Slovakia’s tax system is a part of the country’s comprehensive tax and levies reform. The reform should contribute to improving and making public finances more efficient. However, its implementation in practice is problematic due to the attitudes and problems of both the professional public and business entities. The aim of this contribution is to help students and business entities to understand the tax system reforms. The contribution is based on information from the main actors of the tax reforms. The data were obtained during 3 months (2019 – 2020) using the questionnaire method. These were processed using basic statistical methods of the descriptive type, followed by an analysis of the principal factors and factor analysis. The factor analysis was crucial for our contribution because it identified 5 significant indicators with regards to the assessment of the reforms and the functioning of the tax system. Subsequently, a correspondence analysis was conducted of the factor “Electronisation/computerisation – greater user comfort” to find out the differences in the perception hereof among the respondents. The contribution therefore provides a new perspective on the evaluation and functioning of the reforms of the Financial Administration’s management system in the Slovak Republic. Within the framework of the research into this matter, and with a view to increasing the efficiency of the system globally, we also looked at the existing functional organizational structures and tax administration systems in Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic and Slovenia. On the basis of trend analysis, we can assume that the upcoming reform of the Tax and Customs Administrations will significantly contribute to the increasing efficiency of the system and to the positive perception of taxes, which are currently viewed as a socially unpopular obligation.
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Аль-Атті Ірина. "АДМІНІСТРАТИВНА РЕФОРМА ЯК ОСНОВА МОДЕРНІЗАЦІЇ ПУБЛІЧНОГО УПРАВЛІННЯ." International Academy Journal Web of Scholar 1, no. 9(39) (September 30, 2019): 34–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.31435/rsglobal_wos/30092019/6687.
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The article analyzes the approaches to reforming the public administration system. Three types of reforms have been implemented in the world: first, economization is to increase the efficiency of administration while saving money; the second area of reform was the decentralization of public administration, which was clearly reflected in the growing role of local governments in European countries; The third area of reform was to increase the openness of public administration to the public, which should have helped to increase the legitimacy of the administration in the new environment. The author analyzed the following modern models of public administration: new state management; neo-institutionalism; "Governance" (or "good governance").
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Hyeong Wook, Boo. "Korea`s Experience with NPM-Based Reform: Applying the Policy Fashion Concept." Korean Journal of Policy Studies 25, no. 1 (April 30, 2010): 19–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.52372/kjps25102.
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"The concept of policy fashion was developed to explain a rapid rise and fall in political support for market-oriented policy reforms in European countries. This study applies the concept to Korea’s government reform experience. It offers a conceptual clarification of the concept, explores its usefulness, applies it to Korean government reform, and discusses the theoretical implication of this application."
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Masujima, Toshiyuki. "Administrative reform in Japan: past developments and future trends." International Review of Administrative Sciences 71, no. 2 (June 2005): 295–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020852305053887.
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This article examines the place that the reform of central government ministries — the ‘Hashimoto reforms’ — has occupied within the context of administrative reform in the last half of the 20th century. The first part traces the administrative reforms attempted by successive governments, with particular reference to the Hashimoto reforms in comparison with the earlier highly productive ‘Rinchô’ reforms. The article also identifies the controversial points inherent in the Hashimoto reforms and considers the implications of these reforms for Japanese government in the 21st century. Brief reference is also made to the administrative reforms being pursued by the government as of 2004.
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BREIT, ERIC, TONE ALM ANDREASSEN, and ROBERT H. SALOMON. "Modification of Public Policies by Street-Level Organisations: An Institutional Work Perspective." Journal of Social Policy 45, no. 4 (April 15, 2016): 709–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279416000246.
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AbstractThe literature on policy implementation is divided with regards to the impact of street-level bureaucrats on the implementation of public policies. In this paper, we aim to add to and nuance these debates by focusing on ‘institutional work’ – i.e. the creation, maintenance and disruption of institutions – undertaken by central authorities and street-level bureaucrats during public reform processes. On the basis of a case study of the organisational implementation of a retirement pension reform in the Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration, we argue that institutional work is a useful heuristic device for conceptualising the variety of responses available to street-level bureaucrats during public reforms. We also argue that the responses demonstrate the impact of street-level bureaucrats in these reforms in the context of managerial control and regulation. Finally, we argue that the effectiveness of policy change is dependent on the institutional work of street-level bureaucrats and, in particular, on institutional work that supports the institutions created by politicians and public administrations.
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Abdullah, Ahsan. "Public Administration Reforms in Bangladesh: Experience and Challenges." Dynamics of Public Administration 37, no. 1 (2020): 41. http://dx.doi.org/10.5958/0976-0733.2020.00004.8.
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Dawkins, J. S. "REFORMS IN THE CANBERRA SYSTEM OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION." Australian Journal of Public Administration 44, no. 1 (March 1985): 59–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8500.1985.tb02427.x.
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Škorić, Milica. "Agencification of public administration in the transition process." Pravo - teorija i praksa 38, no. 3 (2021): 108–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/ptp2103108s.
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The democratization of the countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) has also included the reform of inefficient public administration. At the same time, these reforms have been accompanied by the aspiration for a membership in the European Union. The administration has been transformed according to a number of principles that make up the framework of the European administrative area. Along with these processes, there were established public agencies, a body taken over from the developed countries, and created during the reform of the New Public Management. The countries in transition have gone through an extensive and rapid process of agency. Due to a high level of autonomy after the formation of agencies, i.e., after certain tasks have been transferred to their competence, it is difficult to effectively control their work. The public interest is threatened by the non -transparency of these bodies. Their existence also affects the basic principles of the European administrative space and turns the reform against itself. It is certain that the mass establishment of a new body in the system of public administration brings uncertainty in terms of effects. It has turned out that foreign experts, without knowledge of the administrative tradition of the socialist countries, as well as domestic politicians who wanted accelerated reform, also contributed to that.