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Program Overview |
Friday, May 20, 2011 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM |
| IV. Working Group on PA Reform |
| Session 1: Opening session and Comparative studies on PAR |
| Room |
Hermitage Ballroom Hotel "Melia Grand Hermitage" |
| Related to |
PA Reform |
| Chair: |
Michiel de Vries, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands |
| WG Programme Coordinators: |
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Michiel de Vries, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Veronica Junjan, University of Twente, AE Enschede, Netherlands
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The
activity of the Working Group IV aims to
provide a structured forum on the dynamics of public administration reform in
the Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Public Administrative Reform
is described as any restructuring of the administrative part of the public
sector in order to solve organizational and/or societal problems associated
with this structure and intended as promoting a professional, merit-based and
neutral civil service.
The goals
of this year build upon the results reached during the previous meetings of the WG IV members during NISPAcee Annual conferences ,
first as a Panel in 2007 (in Kiev) and 2008 (Bratislava) and then as a working
group in 2009 (Budva) and 2010 (Warsaw).One of the conclusions of the meeting of 2010 is that although many things have
improved in the area of PAR in the target region, developments do not go fast
enough. Which factors are then responsible for the slowing down of the rhythm
of the PAR in the CEECA?
One
hypothesis derived from the discussions is that with the joining of the EU, the
New EU Member States lost incentives to
reform further and the process of PAR stopped. The activity of WGIV this year focuses
on gathering research results aiming to test the hypothesis and the preliminary
conclusions formulated during the meeting in Warsaw in 2010. The presence of
non EU member states in the target region of the WG IV provides both the
possibility to test in the role of the EU as incentive in PAR as well as a
broad palette of alternative
institutional settings where additional factors which can influence reform can
be identified .
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Papers:
Paper: Reforming civil service: The study of 12 CIS countries
Author(s):
Munira Aminova, Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Aleksey Tikhomirov, Russian Federation
Alexei Tikhomirov
Presenter(s):
Paper: Post EU accession reforms in Central and Eastern European Countries: Who will bother?
Author(s):
Veronica Junjan, University of Twente, AE Enschede, Netherlands
Diana - Camelia Iancu, National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania
Diana-Camelia Iancu
Presenter(s):
Paper: Fulfillment of the Madrid criteria through the reforms of the public administrations of the countries from the Western Balkans
Author(s):
Mladen Karadzoski, University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Bitola, Republic of North Macedonia
Presenter(s):
Paper: Decentralization of education management: Theoretical and practical issues
Author(s):
Jolanta Urbanovic, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania
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