Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 17th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview VI. Working Group on Capacity Building of Civil Servants... Author(s) Inesa Vorontchuk University of Latvia Riga Latvia Inesa Vorontchuk and Edvins Vanags Title Development of master’s and doctoral study programmes in public administration in Latvia File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Abstract Development of master’s and doctoral study programmes in public administration in Latvia Modern public administration is strongly connected with innovations and excellence. Innovations and excellence in public governance is difficulty to achieve without innovations and excellence in academician area and among students, especially of master’s and doctoral study programmes. The aim of the article is to show how innovations and excellence could appear in public governance and analyse the master’s and doctoral study programmes in administration at the University of Latvia and show the directions of its development. The authors of the article try to identify the principles, directions, values and indicators of innovation and excellence in public governance and divide them into five groups: • innovations and excellence in public service; • innovations and excellence in government (central, regional and local); • collaborative network public management; • value of public governance (civil servants) in context of innovations and excellence; • creation of civil society trough principles of values of innovative and excellent public governance. Updated principles and values of public governance could be included in the courses of master’s and doctoral study programmes. Actual is development of these programmes at the University of Latvia. Updated principles and demands of public governance are included in such master’s study programme courses as Foundation of Public Administration, Organisation of State Administration and Local Governments, Analysis of Public Administration Institutions, Project Management, Personal Management as well as in the following courses of doctoral study programme: “Modern Research Methods in Public Administration”, “Updated Information Technology”, “Reforms of Public Administration”, “Actual Problems of Public Management”. The master’s work and promotion work themes are relevant. They are often connected with actual problems in work places of doctoral students. Master’s and doctoral studies programmes are not static, they develop constantly, taking into attention new directions of management and students’ proposal too.
