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Program Overview |
Thursday, May 24, 2012 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM |
| Plenary Session on the Main Conference Theme |
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| Room |
BILJANA Hotel Metropol |
| Related to |
Main Conference Theme |
| Chair: |
Jacek Czaputowicz, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland |
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The fall of the
Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the beginning of a period of very substantial and,
in some instances, highly volatile political, economic and social change in
Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. This, and other
subsequent events, triggered a series of waves of transition that led to the
emergence of market economies and democratic institution building in many of
the countries of the region.
This, in turn, led to many new forms of
cooperation between East and West in the fields of public administration and
public policy. It was 20 years ago that the Network of Institutes and Schools
of Public Administration of Central and Eastern Europe (NISPAcee) was
established for the purpose of providing an institutional framework and a vibrant
professional association which would serve to encourage the processes of
modernization and transformation of the administrative systems of the region,
as well as to encourage the spread of democratic principles and standards
therein.
For
the 20th anniversary conference the main conference theme will follow the two
principal objectives. Firstly to initiate, promote and organize an in-depth
scientific, professional and empirical analysis and synthesis of East-West
cooperation during the past twenty years and how it has contributed to
institutional development throughout the region. Secondly to highlight and
evaluate the NISPAcee role in the development of the East-West cooperation in
the past and, in so doing, assess its own progress and discuss the main trajectory
of its action in the future. This will
serve both to assess past development and to help in articulating its future development
strategy.
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Papers:
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Foundations
of NISPAcee, milestones and some of its phases towards PA/PM : From
Hofburg (1992) to Ohrid
Mirko Vintar, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Political
and administrative transformation of the region in the last 20 years and
the role of NISPAcee
Gyorgy Jenei, Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary
Lessons
learned from E/W cooperation
Allan Rosenbaum, Florida International University, Miami, United States
Out of the box: CEE and CA transitions and PA paradigms
Michel de
Vries, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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