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Program Overview |
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Thursday, May 24, 2018 14:00 - 15:30
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| III. Working Group on Public Administration Reform |
| Session 1: Change and Performance in Public Sector: Comparative Insights |
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Room Alexandru Myler Ground floor |
| Related to |
III. PA Reform |
| WG Programme Coordinators: |
Veronica Junjan, University of Twente, AE Enschede, Netherlands
Diana - Camelia Iancu, National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania
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The Working Group on Public Administration Reform has traditionally been an arena for debating and comparing the dynamics of institutions and organisations promoting a professional, merit-based and neutral civil service. Its initial focus on new EU Member States from Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltics has developed and today, the Group also benefits from the research contributions and grassroots experiences of academics and practitioners from Europe, Central Asia and beyond.
For 2018, the Group aims to channel discussions around the core values of public action – such as well-being and happiness, and their reflection in current state leadership.
Whilst some scholars have increasingly focused on finding what makes people happy and why policy-makers should learn about that (Helliwell et al. 2014, Clark et al. 2017), others have critically approached the measurement of well-being and suggested alternatives to the existing trends (Diener et al. 2009, Daeton 2012).Additional researches investigated resilience (at individual, organisational and community level) as the capacity to endure, adjust to, and recover from unexpected events. Resilience, such as the capacity to recover, was seen to be important in the process of re-constructing well-being at different societal levels. Given the multiple waves of reforms and challenges of the recent years (ranging from economic and financial crises to climate change), resilience needs to be better understood as part of providing societal well-being.
As such, and following the commitment from OECD (2016) "to put people’s well-being at the centre of governments’ efforts” and the conditions necessary for achieving their happiness, as described in The World Happiness Report (2017): "high levels of mutual trust, shared purpose, generosity and good governance”, the Working Group on Public Administration Reform welcomes researches that explain and reflect on the current political, social and economic turmoil and its impact on the traditional scope of governance. What roles should governments undertake in order to support the sustainable growth of their respective communities? How could think tanks, community leaders and ordinary citizens contribute to making policy-makers aware of their misery or well-being? What impact does the ideological envelope of good governance bear and what stories does the research on development aid have to share? Comparative analyses on different policy choices in support of sustainable growth, as well as innovative models for measuring well-being and resilience are especially welcome.
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Paper: Sector Characteristics and Change-Oriented Behavior by Public Employees: Cross-National Evidence from the Government Competitiveness Global Survey
Author(s):
Jesse Campbell, Incheon National University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
Tobin Im, Seoul National University
Presenter(s):
Jesse Campbell, Incheon National University, Incheon, Republic of Korea
Paper: Institutions and Trade in the Republic of Moldova – European Union Economic Integration Process - Empirical Evidences of the Association Agreement Implementation
Author(s):
Ion Muschei, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi, Romania, IASI, Romania
Carmen Gabriela Pascariu, Center for European Studies Faculty of Law ,,Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iași, Romania
Presenter(s):
Ion Muschei, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi, Romania, IASI, Romania
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