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Program Overview |
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Thursday, May 11, 2006 16:00 - 18:00
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| III. Working Group on Strategic Leadership in Central Government |
| Session 1: Administrative Reforms via a vis Administrative Capacity |
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White hall I |
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III. Working Group on Strategic Leadership in Central Gov... |
| WG Programme Coordinators: |
Katarina Staronova, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
Radoslaw Zubek, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom
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Theme 2006: ”Strategic Management Capacities and Regulatory Quality in Central and Eastern Europe”
The quality of government regulation has attracted increasing interest among both practitioners and academics (OECD 1995, 1997, 2002; Nicolletti & Pryor 2001; Baldwin & Cave 1999, Baldwin et al. 2000). The OECD and World Bank have paid particular attention to problems of regulatory quality and identified the reform of law-making institutions as one of their main policy objectives. The EU has also encouraged its member states to address domestic regulatory problems so as to enhance the European economy’s ability to generate growth and innovation. In Central and Eastern Europe, a large share of legislation and regulation has been imposed by the requirements of EU accession and membership. Proportional electoral systems and a large number of unstable parties prevail in many countries of the region, yielding complicated, fragile majority constellations in parliaments and coalition or minority cabinets as the exclusive model of government in the region. Such cabinets are shaped by the need to compromise with coalition partners, strong incentives to form rival coalitions with opposition parties and a shift of political power from the centre of government to party headquarters or parliament. Regulatory quality is a function of executive capacity. This capacity can be strengthened by streamlining decision procedures, developing the government or prime minister’s office and reinforcing incentives for collective or centralized decision making. The Ljubljana workshop intends to develop more precise notions of the causal relations between powerful and cohesive executive and policy reforms as well as a more contextualized understanding of specific executive changes and their effects.
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Paper: Government agenda control:Evidence from Polish Parliament 1997-2005
Author(s):
Radoslaw Zubek, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom
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Paper: A comparison and assessment of "New Management"(NPM) and "New European PA"(NEPA) as approaches to administrative reform
Author(s):
William †Dunn, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
David Y. Miller, Associate Dean and Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh
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Paper: Public administration reform and the policy making process in Romania
Author(s):
Marius Profiroiu, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania
Senior Lecturer, Phd. Marius PROFIROIU
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Paper: Measuring reform capacity? Conceptualizing a new index of executive capacity and accountability
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anonym Anonym, , Germany
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