This year the NISPAcee conference will for the first time
organize a colloquium for practitioners. This colloquium intends to induce a
discussion between practitioners and academics. It is not about
discussing the quality of research papers, but about actual developments taking
place in Public Administration in the NISPAcee region which are interesting to
discuss from a pragmatic as well as an academic perspective.
After a short presentation by a scholar on a specific
topic a extensive discussion will follow whether the developments in the public
sector as sketched by the presenter are visible in the respective countries of
the practitioners, what they see as background factors, what problems they
experience and which solutions are sought in their countries. Therefore, it
will not be a scholarly but an academic discussion. It is not about listening
to presentations, but about participating in a debate what the topic implies
for the practitioners. The goal is that practitioners can learn from the
experiences from the countries of other participants, from best practices, good
practices and bad practices; That they can share their own experiences; that
they can bring pressing issues to the fore; and in the end that one of the main
goals of Public Administration, that is bringing academics and practitioners
together, can be achieved.
This year, among others, upscaling the public sector, and
capacity building in the public sector will be discussed.
We do hope for participants from as many countries in the
CEE-region as possible
Chair: Michiel S de Vries/Radboud University
Nijmegen, the Netherlands
co-chair: Michael Brintnall, Radboud University Nijmegen
, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Session 1: Relations between the public and private sector
Presenters:
Juraj Nemec, University of Matej Bel, Slovakia, topic: Efficiency of outsourcing and factors
determining it: Slovakia
Rodney Erakovich, Texas Wesleyan University,Texas, United States, topic: Cross-sector collaboration: management
decision and change model
Session 2: Traditions and public sector reform
Presenters:
Rustamjon Urinboyev, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, topic: Living law and political stability in post-soviet Central Asia. A case study of the Ferghana Valley in Uzbekistan
Michiel de Vries, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, topic: Reform fatique: The effects of reorganizations on public sector employees