EAPAA

European Association for Public Administration Accreditation

UNPAN

NISPAcee serves as a regional center of UNPAN unpan.un.org

EVENTS from Other Institutions

  Submit Events

April 24 - April 25, 2025
Ex-post Regulatory Evaluations

April 24 - April 25, 2025
Knowledge Management in Public Sector Organisations

May 6 - May 6, 2025
The Future of the Green Deal

May 7 - May 8, 2025
Buying AI and Using AI in Procurement

May 13 - May 14, 2025
European Defence and Security Procurement

June 3 - June 3, 2025
Cross-Border Civil Judicial Litigation

June 3 - June 4, 2025
Recent Developments in European Public Procurement and Case Law

June 3 - June 3, 2025
The European Arrest Warrant and the Charter of Fundamental Rights

June 16 - June 20, 2025
Data Protection Certification Course

June 16 - June 20, 2025
Data Protection Certification Course

  view more...

Other NEWS

Conference in Gdansk "Sustainable and Socially Responsible Development"

2026 United Nations Public Service Awards – apply by 31 March!

Journal Public Money & Management: Call for a Special Issue on World Elections

Capacity Development Snapshot 2023 of the UN DESA/DPIDG

Central European Public Administration Review accepted for inclusion in Scopus

Central European Public Administration Review - new issue has been published

Call for applications for Public Sector Innovation and eGovernance MA programme

UNPAN Partners’ Newsletter July – August – September 2023

INVITATION:KosovaPAR2023 Conference on PAR for an Agile and Resilient Governance

DPIDG/DESA and the International Budget Partnership (IBP) Handbook for Auditors

Trans-European Dialogue TED2020 Conference
Politics of Bureaucracy: The Roles of Top Pubic Officials in Turbulent Times
February 11-13, 2020 / Bratislava, Slovakia

 
Traditionally, the relationships of politics and public administration has been at the heart of public administration scholarship. Nevertheless, contemporary turbulent times – migration, the rise of populism and democratic backsliding, or Brexit and the integration fatigue just to name a few factors – put the dichotomy of this relationship into question, with empirical research suggesting that politicization is on the increase. At the same time, complex conditions and external and internal pressures call for elected and recruited leaders that would be able to navigate our political systems through times of change while ensuring the reliability of state institutions; nevertheless, the roles, tasks and values of top public officials have not traditionally been associated with change. Participants of TED2020 therefore addressed top public officials and the nature of their work: their careers, expertise and experience; their competencies, values, roles and practices including the interface between politics and public administration; as well as their impact on delivery, public value, and the institutional architecture of the state especially in the context of policy and management crises.
 
Programme topics:
 
Session 1: Career paths: Who are top public officials and where do they come from?
Session 2: Tasks and practices: What do we empirically know about what top public officials actually do?
Session 3: Professionalization vs. Politicization
Session 4: Policy advice: Where does policy advice come from?
Session 5: Accountability and legitimacy: How is the politics-administration dichotomy changing?
Session 6: Public value: What is the role of top public officials in delivering and communicating public value?
 
TED 2020 Partners