Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 15th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview I. Working Group on Politico-Administrative Relations Author(s) Jako Salla Tallinn University Tallinn Estonia Olju Moonika, Ms. Moonika Olju Title Politico-administrative relations in the policy making process. The case of the1995 Government of the Republic Act File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Abstract Abstract Authors and institution: Ms. Moonika Olju (Tallinn University) & Mr. Jako Salla (Tallinn University/Ministry of Justice) Title: Politico-administrative relations in the policy making process. The case of the 1995 Government of the Republic Act The aim of the research is to discover the possible configurations of politico-administrative relations in the policy making process. In order to do so the preparation of the 1995 Government of the Republic Act is analyzed as an example during the period of 1992-1995. The main motive of the research is to discover configurations of politico-administrative relations that emerged during the preparation of this important legislative act. In the context of administering the summit this research proposed here focuses more deeply on processes. Because the aim is to generalize analytically, the inductive research is method used. The theoretical part is constructed on theories developed by Guy Peters; Aberbach et al. The research strategy is divided into two parts: the first part is dedicated to finding and describing regularities in the policy making process and in the second part the authors analyze whether the theoretical models of B.G. Peters enable to explain the policy making process at hand. For the purposes of research a qualitative secondary analyses was conducted; the data base is built on archive materials. The empirical data was collected in the scope of the Estonian Science Foundation project, “The management and analysis of the institutional arrangement of Estonian public administration reforms.” In order to fully comprehend what took place during that period, one unstandardized interview was conducted with one of the key-persons form the process. The period of interest is divided into 4 parts, 3 different governments were on power during the period. Authors found five important types of actors who, depending on the period, more or less influenced the policy making process and the outcomes: politicians, secretary-general, experts, senior civil servants, other actors. Main institutions that took part from the process were: government office, parliament commission, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Interior. The analysis revealed that besides politicians and civil servants, experts and other actors participate in the policy making process in a considerable manner. Also four different policy making configurations were discovered and the analysis enables to conclude, that out of five ideal models of B.G.Peters only the administrative state model explained adequately the policy making process. September 2006.
