Public Administration in Post-Communist Countries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Public Administration in Post-Communist Countries write by Saltanat Liebert. This book was released on 2017-09-25. Public Administration in Post-Communist Countries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although it has been more than 20 years since Communism crumbled in Central and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, many scholars and politicians still wonder what the lifting of the Iron Curtain has really meant for these former Communist countries. And, because these countries were largely closed off to the world for so long, there has yet to be an all-inclusive study on their administrative systems—until now. In Public Administration in Post-Communist Countries: Former Soviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe, and Mongolia, expert contributors supply a comprehensive overview and analysis of public administration in their respective post-Communist countries. They illustrate each country’s transformation from an authoritarian system of governance into a modern, market-based, and in some cases, democratic government. The book covers the countries that were officially part of the Soviet Union (Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Estonia, Lithuania, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan); those that were theoretically independent but were subject to Soviet-dominated Communist rule (Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and Poland); as well as a satellite republic that was under significant Soviet influence (Mongolia). Each chapter includes a brief introduction to the specific country, an overview of politics and administration, and discussions on key aspects of public management and administration—including human resource management, public budgeting, financial management, corruption, accountability, political and economic reform, civil society, and prospects for future development in the region. The book concludes by identifying common themes and trends and pinpointing similarities and differences to supply you with a broad comparative perspective.
Governing After Communism
Governing After Communism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Governing After Communism write by Vesselin Dimitrov. This book was released on 2006. Governing After Communism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This timely comparative analysis explores the evolution of governance in Central and Eastern Europe. The book considers post-communist leaders' key challenge: the development of central government institutions capable of coordinating, integrating, and steering the policymaking process. Building on a broad range of primary sources and extensive field research, the distinguished authors analyze the processes and outcomes of institution-building in Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Bulgaria since the late 1980s. They examine in detail the organization and inner workings of central executives; explain differences in executive trajectories across time and countries by considering the influence of institutional legacies, the impact of evolving party systems, and the role of crises in spurring institutional change; and show the effects of executive institutions on patterns of public policy, especially the budgetary process. Through a rigorous application of the core-executive framework, this study offers nuanced conceptual and analytical insights that will enhance understanding of both the evolving institutions of Central and Eastern Europe and the more stable West European systems. The in-depth analysis of the development of national executive institutions casts a distinctive new light on debates about EU enlargement, Europeanization, and patterns of governance.
Rebuilding State Structures
Rebuilding State Structures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rebuilding State Structures write by United Nations Development Programme. Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. This book was released on 2001. Rebuilding State Structures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This publication reviews the use of functional review as a tool for public administration reform in Europe and CIS region. Lack of economic development has stimulated the search for new methods and approaches in conducting reform. Public administration reform is now seen as a condition of success. As a result, answers to the question how the deadlock in administrative reform processes can be broken are sought ever more widely. Functional review is often seen as part of the solution. It is a tool that, if used properly, can help open up issues that previously could not be address. However if improperly used, they can also lead to a polarization of reform debates, and a further entrenchment of positions. This publication tries to answer the question 'how and under what conditions' functional review can work as a tool for stimulating deep reforms. For this a number of key cases from the region were examined.
Political Parties and the State in Post-Communist Europe
Political Parties and the State in Post-Communist Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Political Parties and the State in Post-Communist Europe write by Petr Kopecky. This book was released on 2007-10-11. Political Parties and the State in Post-Communist Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It is not possible to understand the nature and functioning of post-communist political parties without understanding their relationship with the state. On the one hand, few parties in the region would be able to survive and perform without state resources as they lack strong roots within the wider society. On the other hand, the relatively weak st
Politics and Policies in Post-Communist Transition
Politics and Policies in Post-Communist Transition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Politics and Policies in Post-Communist Transition write by Károly Attila Soós. This book was released on 2011-01-10. Politics and Policies in Post-Communist Transition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discusses the policies, practices and outcomes of privatization in six transition economies: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Slovenia and Ukraine, paying particular attention to cross-country differences and to interrelations between the processes of privatisation and the political transition from communism to a new system.The analysis is restricted to the privatisation in those fields where its methods have been strongly different from privatisations in advanced market economies and where differences of privatisation principles and techniques among our six countries were also rather various. This is basically the privatisation of middle-sized and large enterprises, not including banks, non-bank financial companies, natural monopolies and agricultural entities.
