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The NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy is listed in Clarivate Analytics (former Thomson Reuters): Emerging Sources Citation Index and Web of Science.

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is listed in SCOPUS. CiteScore 2022: 2,4; SNIP 2022: 0,875; SRJ: 0,336
 

The NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy is ranked in The Journal Impact Factor Quartile Q3 within field of public administration.

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Call for abstract proposals for 32nd NISPAcee Annual Conference 2024 is OPEN!

 
The conference is organized in cooperation with the Caucasus University, Tbilisi, Georgia
 

We are pleased to invite you to submit applications with abstract for the 32nd NISPAcee Annual Conference 2024, that includes activities and research on various topics of Public Administration.

Term and place: May 23rd – 25th of 2024, Tbilisi, Georgia.

Extended deadline of application with a paper proposal: November 20, 2023.

 
Call for application with abstract proposal you can find on our brand
NEW conference webpage.

October 6, 2023

Review of the UNDESA/IASIA Standards of Excellence for PA Education and Training

Review of the Standards of Excellence for Public Administration Education and Training
adopted in 2008 is organized by the Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) and the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration (IASIA).
 
NISPAcee representatives Calin Hintea, NISPAcee Immediate Past President and Ludmila Gajdosova, NISPAcee Executive Director participate in the UNDESA/IASIA Task Force appointed for the Review. First online meeting of the Task Force was held on April, 18, 2023.
 
Europe Regional Workshop on the Review of the Standards of Excellence for Public Administration Education and Training was held online on October 5, 2023. Updated Standards will be published by the end of 2024.
 
 

October 6, 2023

Call for Nominations for the Alena Brunovska Award for Teaching Excellence in PA

The award is a tribute to a commitment of Alena Brunovska, one of NISPAcee’s founders and the first Chair of the NISPAcee Steering Committee, to the development of public administration education in the region of Central and Eastern Europe.

Deadlinefor receipt of completed nominations:
December 1, 2023.

October 4, 2023

Call for Nominations for the Mzia Mikeladze PhD Thesis Award

The Mzia Mikeladze PhD Thesis Award aims to promote research by young scholars on public administration and public policy in the NISPAcee region.
 
Deadline for receipt of completed nominations: December 1, 2023.
 
Nominations can be made by the NISPAcee member institution where the thesis has been defended.

October 2, 2023

EAPAA Board Meeting and General Meeting 2023

The EAPAA (European Association for Public Administration Accreditation) Board and General meetings were held in Zagreb, Croatia within the EGPA Annual Conference 2023 on September 7, 2023.
 
Prof Gyorgy Hajnal, Corvinus University, Hungary (former NISPAcee President) was elected the new Chair of the EAPAA Board. EAPAA Board members representing NISPAcee Juraj Nemec (NISPAcee Steering Committee member) and Ludmila Gajdosova (NISPAcee Executive Director) participated in the meetings as well.


September 15, 2023

Report: Summary Report of the The 31st NISPAcee Annual Conference


The 31st NISPAcee Annual Conference

REPORT

Main Conference Theme:
THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION ENABLED THROUGH EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
Term: May 25-27, 2023
Location: Belgrade, Serbia
Organized in cooperation with
the National Academy for Public Administration in Serbia





June 21, 2023

The ASPA International Public Administration Award 2023

The AWARD was presented to the NISPAcee President Calin Hintea on March 22, 2023 by the the Award Committee: Chair James Perry, ASPA President Allan Rosenbaum, ASPA International Director Pan Suk Kim and ASPA International Director Bill Shields. The Award Ceremony was held online within ASPA’s 2023 Annual Conference International Assembly (American Society for Public Administration).
 

March 23, 2023

Mainstreaming the Sustainable Development Goals in the Curricula of PA Schools

The Presidential Summit on "Mainstreaming the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Curricula of Schools of Public Administration” organized by UNDESA was held online, via Zoom, on 27 February, 2023. The NISPAcee President Calin Hintea and the NISPAcee Executive DirectorLudmila Gajdosova participated in the Summit.

 

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It is very good that the mission of NISPAcee gives prominence to excellence in research, to the implementation of international standards in the achievement of research projects and to the promotion of theoretically-sound, practice-oriented MA / BA programmes and doctoral studies.

Jacek Czaputowicz, Head of the Methodology of European Studies Unit at the European Institute, Warsaw University, Poland, p. 385

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NISPAcee is specific among the Public Administration societies of the world in that it always had a remedial, or melioristic, element as well, i.e. the role to improve the academic standards of Public Administration as a scholarly discipline in the former Second World

Wolfgang Drechsler, Professor and Chair of Governance at the Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, p. 378

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NISPAcee has become one of the most important producers of knowledge and information about political institutional and ad¬ministrative development throughout Central and Eastern Europe

Allan Rosenbaum, Professor of Public Administration, Director of the Institute for Public Management and community Service at Florida International University, United States, p. 355

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IIAS and NISPAcee address the challenges of public administration in different geographic regions and environments, but both are striving to make a contribution for improving public administration; to create a forum where academics and practitioners meet and discuss the emerging problems to find common solutions

(Rolet Loretan, General Director of the International Institute of Administrative Science, Belgium, p.374)

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NISPAcee has played a very important role in helping to encourage the development of and sustain those institutions from throughout the region

Allan Rosenbaum, Professor of Public Administration, Director of the Institute for Public Management and community Service at Florida International University, United States, p. 355

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I am not afraid to say that NISPAcee is one such framework, which for a long period, on many occasions together with the United Nations Department of Public Administration and Development Management (DPADM), relentlessly worked to help enhance the role, prestige, performance and professionalism of the public service

Haiyan Qian, Director of the Division for Public Administration and Development Management, United N , p. 350

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NISPAcee is one of the leading organisations in the domain of public administration that has a large network in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Republics. In the 20 years of its history, the organisation was able to produce results, make significant contributions to the area of public-administration research and excel in many areas of their work

Rolet Loretan, General Director of the International Institute of Administrative Science, Belgium, p. 374

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NISPAcee’s annual conferences not only are interesting for public-administration researchers, but also for those who are (more) involved in public-administration teaching (the reason of existence of most, if not all, NISPAcee members)

(Theo van der Krogt, Secretary – general at European Association for Public Administration Accreditation, The Netherlands, p. 371)

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NISPAcee has become a prominent core organization for those specifically concerned with Central and Eastern Europe

Gyorgy Jenei, Professor Emeritus at the Departments of Public Policy and Management at Corvinus University, Hungary, p. 19

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NISPAcee has had a decisive role in public administration education – including public law, public economics, public policy and public management – in the region as it has developed strategic and action oriented partnerships with academicians and practitioners of modern democracies

Gyorgy Jenei, Professor Emeritus at the Departments of Public Policy and Management at Corvinus University, Hungary, p. 21

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NISPAcee is perceived as a major partner in the region of Eastern Europe and in the European Neighbourhood

Rolet Loretan, General Director of the International Institute of Administrative Science, Belgium, p. 374

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NISPAcee has also helped to build bridges and networks among academicians and practitioners in the CEE region and the West

Gyorgy Jenei, Professor Emeritus at the Departments of Public Policy and Management at Corvinus University, Hungary, p. 19

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focus of NISPAcee on research indirectly helped a lot to improve the quality of the public-administration education in Central and Eastern Europe

Theo van der Krogt, Secretary – general at European Association for Public Administration Accreditation, The Netherlands, p. 369-370

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Mzia was very much charmed by the warm and friendly atmosphere in NISPAcee, and she gained many friends during her travels and work for the Association. She had a real sense of being a member of a very large family, and I would like to underline this important achievement of NISPAcee. Her experience from NISPAcee was widely applied in Georgia

Malkhaz Mikeladze, Georgian Ambassador in Mexico, Georgia, p. 341

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NISPAcee has modelled in itself the kinds of success and contributions to public service that it is seeking to further in its members. It has built strong and motivational social bonds among leaders in public-service education and broken down regional barriers to cooperation. It has planted the seeds for good scholarship and significantly advanced the quality of policy analysis in the region.

Michael Brintnall, Executive Director of the American Political Science Association, United States, p. 367-368

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Many of the NISPAcee “core” members served and serve in top positions on the level of national governments

Juraj Nemec, Professor of Public Finance and Public Management at the Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, p. 387

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I do hope to see even higher expectations and new achievements for NISPAcee: for the good of young people, for the good of our countries and for the good of the entire world

Malkhaz Mikeladze, Georgian Ambassador in Mexico, Georgia, p. 342

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To my mind, the core NISPAcee activities of the very greatest value are: the annual conferences; other specialised conferences and workshops, mainly TEDs; the publications, especially the Journal; and the way in which relationships with partners from outside our region are maintained

Jacek Czaputowicz, Head of the Methodology of European Studies Unit at the European Institute, Warsaw University, Poland, p. 385

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Anyone who has been exposed to the development of the field of public-administration education and training in Central and Eastern Europe will recognize and understand the importance of NISPAcee to the development of public-administration education and training in the region

Allan Rosenbaum, Professor of Public Administration, Director of the Institute for Public Management and community Service at Florida International University, United States, p. 354

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NISPAcee has done all that a professional community should – carried out its projects effectively and given identity, collegiality and visibility to its members. It has clearly moved what may have been isolated individual scholars and schools into a stronger, mutually reinforcing network

Michael Brintnall, Executive Director of the American Political Science Association, United States p. 367

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