Public administration reforms in Visegrad countries: “two steps forward – one step back” processes (?)
Public administration reforms in Visegrad countries: “two steps forward – one step back” processes (?)

Author(s): Juraj Nemec, David Špaček, Vladimír Tiutiuriukov
Subject(s): Governance, Public Administration, Political history, Social development, Management and complex organizations, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Sociology of Politics
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Public administration; Visegrad countries; reforms of public administration; political history; transformation period; Czech Republic; Hungary; Slovakia; Poland;
Summary/Abstract: The starting point for all the countries in 1989 was similar – the need to create the foundations for a new democratic model of public administration in all four countries. Changes in this period were intended to overcome and eliminate the shortcomings of centralized control of state administration. This period was characterized by the creation of a new set of state institutions corresponding to the requirements of liberal democratic principles. The political, legislative, and economic changes also required transformation regarding the perception of its role, activities of executive apparatus and institutions, nature and quality of public administration employees, and effectiveness of their work. During certain period after first dramatic changes realized especially in 1990-1991 in all the countries the focus was on fine-tuning new structures and mechanisms, and new major changes came only significantly later – differently for each country. In the following text we describe country by country what happened in next phases of PARs.

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