Editor-in-chief
Professor JURAJ NEMEC
Professor of Public Finance and Management, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic and Matej Bel University Banska Bystrica, Slovakia
Juraj Nemec is a Professor at Public Finance and Management, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic and Matej Bel University Banska Bystrica, Slovakia.He holds an MBA in Business Administration, a Ph.D. in Public Sector Economics and is a Professor of Public Finance and Public Management, with more than 33 years’ experience in teaching in public sector management and procurement. He has published over 400 books and scientific articles in this field and held several academic posts, including the position of "Dean of the Faculty of Finance". During his academic and professional career he has gained immense experience in the political and administrative situation in the European integration process and EU enlargement.
Editorial board
Professor Dr Geert Bouckaert
Professor Dr Geert Bouckaert is teaching and researching at the Public Management Institute, of which he is de Director, of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, in Leuven, Belgium.
He is specialised in public sector reform in general and financial management and performance measurement in the public sector in particular.
He received his graduate degrees in Business Engineering, Political Sciences, and Philosophy, and earned his Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Currently he is immediate Past President of the European Group of Public Administration (EGPA) and of the Flemish Association of Public Administration. He is a member of several international editorial boards.
WOLFGANG DRECHSLER
Institute of Public Administration, Tallinn University of Technology, Sütiste tee 21, EE-13419 Tallinn, Estonia.
Tel. +372-6-202664, CDM +372-56-691527
WOLFGANG DRECHSLER is Professor and Chair of Governance at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, and co-director of its graduate Technology Governance program. BA Bridgewater College, MA University of Virginia, PhD University of Marburg, Diploma German Post-Graduate School of Public Administration Speyer, Habilitation University of Tartu. Professor Drechsler also teaches Innovation Policy and Theory at the European Business School, Oestrich-Winkel. He previously taught at the Universities of Marburg, Gießen, and Frankfurt/Main, at the University of Tartu, and as Visiting Professor in Lund, Rio de Janeiro, and Erfurt.
Drechsler has served as Advisor to the President of Estonia, as Executive Secretary with the German Wissenschaftsrat during German Reunification, and, as an APSA Congressional Fellow, a Senior Legislative Analyst in the United States Congress. He was Vice Chairman of the executive board of PRAXIS, Estonia’s pre-eminent public policy think-tank, member of the Innovation Policy Council of the Estonian Ministry of Economics, and currently is a member of the executive board of NISPAcee, of the University of Marburg Research Group for Nanotechnology and the Social Sciences and, as the public management expert, of the Lisbon Agenda Group.
Gyorgy Hajnal
Member of the NISPAcee Steering Committee / Professor, Head of Department, Corvinus University of Budapest / Senior Researcher, Institute for Political Science, Center for Social Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (IPS CSR HAS), Hungary.
Professor in the Department of Public Policy and Management, Corvinus University of Budapest and Senior Researcher at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Polictical Science.
Prior to his current positions he worked as a Senior Researcher/ Head of Department for 15 years at the Hungarian Institute of Public Administration and its successor organisation. Besides his full-time academic positions he has been and contiues to be extensively involved in international research cooperation projects in topics relating to comparative public management reforms. He has also served as a consultant to various international academic, governmental and business organisations.
Advisory board
Ivan Kopric
Head of the Chair of Administrative Science, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb.
President of Institute of Public Administration, Croatia.
Professor Ivan Koprić is a Full Professor of Administrative Science and Head of the Study Centre for Public Administration and Public Finances at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Croatia; President of the Institute of Public Administration, Zagreb; Editor-in-Chief of the international scientific journal Croatian and Comparative Public Administration; Editor of the book series Contemporary Public Administration (28 books to date); mentor of ten PhD theses; leader, researcher, and expert in more than 30 scientific, policy, and professional projects; consultant in more than 20 projects in South-Eastern Europe; member of several academic and public bodies in Croatia; author and editor of fifteen books, around one hundred scientific papers and more than 160 other articles and more than 120 presentations at scientific conferences.
Recent books (in Croatian) include: European Administrative Space (co-author, 2012), Reform of Local and Regional Self-Government in Croatia (ed., 2013), Administrative Science: Public Administration in Contemporary European Context (co-author, 2014) and Europeanisation of the Croatian Public Administration (ed., 2014). Courses include those in the study of law, public administration, tax administration, social work and several postgraduate and doctoral studies (Public Law and Public Administration; Urban Management; Social Policy).
Fields of expertise and research include: local governance, decentralisation, multi-level governance, European Administrative Space, organisation theory, administrative theory, administrative education, human resource management, performance management, administrative procedures, public policy, and comparative public administration, etc.
ASSOC. PROF. ARNOŠT VESELÝ
Head at Department of Public and Social Policy, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Czech republic.
His Professional interest is focused on Educational policy, Policy analysis, The methodology of the social sciences, Sociology, Education, Public administration analysis, Policy work. He teaches Methods of analysis and formation of public policies, Educational policy
Pawel Swianiewicz
Professor of economics, head of the Department of Local Development and Policy, Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw.
His Professional interest is focused on Educational policy, Policy analysis, The methodology of the social sciences, Sociology, Education, Public administration analysis, Policy work. He teaches Methods of analysis and formation of public policies, Educational policy
B. GUY PETERS
Maurice Falk Professor of American Government at the University of Pittsburgh, and Honorary Professor at Roskilde University Centre and the City University of Hong Kong.
He has also had visiting positions at a number of universities around the world. Professor Peters is founding co-editor of the European Political Science Review and of Governance, and is nowAssociate Editor of the IPSA Encyclopedia of Political Science. He has also served a consultant for the World Bank, the United Nations, the OECD and a number of national governments. He is author or editor of over fifty books. Among his recent publications are the Handbook of Public Administration and the Handbook of Public Policy (both edited with Jon Pierre), and Institutional Theory in Political Science, 2nd ed.
Vitalis Nakrosis
Professor of Public Administration and one of the leading researchers of the academic core at the Institute of Intemational Relations and Political Science, University of Vilnius, Lithuania.
His academic interests cover such research areas as European studies and Public administration. Fields of his research include EU public policy, public management and reforms, public policy evaluation and analysis, public sector organizations and strategic management. Professor has been responsible for delivery of lectures of Public Administration and Public Policy courses for the Master's programme on Public Administration as Comparative Public Administration, Public Choice Theories, New Public Management Theory and Doctrine, EU Public Policies, Administrative Reform. Professor has supervised number of undergraduate, graduate students and doctoral students.
TIINA RANDMA-LIIV
Professor of Public Administration and Policy at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia.
She has obtained BA in Economics (Tartu), Master of Public Administration (New York University), and PhD (Loughborough). Randma-Liiv has previously worked as Professor of Public Management at the University of Tartu and as Visiting Professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, University of Gdansk, and Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. She has been a member of the Academic Council of President of Estonia (Committee of the Development of Local Governments), and Prime Minister's Advisory Board on Administrative Reform. Randma-Liiv has also worked for the World Bank and she was a co-founder of PRAXIS -the biggest and most influential policy think-tank in Estonia.
She has carried out consulting projects on public administration both in Estonia and internationally. She currently serves in the Steering Committee of the European Group of Public Administration (EGPA) and she was previously a member of the Steering Committee of NISPAcee. Her main research interests include civil service reforms, performance management, policy transfer, NGOs and small state administration. She is an author of a monograph and 21 peer-reviewed articles. She received the 2006 Alena Brunovska Award for Teaching Excellence in Central and Eastern Europe.
Calin Hintea
Dean, College of Political, Babes-Bolyai University, Department of Public Administration, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Calin Emilian Hintea is a Professor at Babes Bolyai University, Romania and Adjunct Professor at Michigan State University. He teaches Public Management and Strategy courses. Professor Hintea is the Dean of the College of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences at BBU.
He is also a former Secretary of State, Head of Strategy Unit, the Prime Minister's Office (2009-2011) as well as a former Chair of the Public Administration Department at BBU (2004-2012). He is the Senior Editor of the Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences (ISI Journal).
Alexey G. Barabashev
Professor, Research University-Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia.
Prof. Alexey G. Barabashev teaches courses at the Research University - Higher School of Economics - on the civil service, including civil service reforms in Russia. His research interests are concentrated in the area of the theory of bureaucracy and applications of the theory towards Russian practical needs and methodology of reflexive systems. From 2004 until the present he has served as President (from 2011) and Dean (2004-2011) of the School of Public Administration and Managementand as the Chair of the Department of Civil and Municipal Service at Higher School of Economics.
From 1997 to 2014 he served as a member of the advisors’ expert group forpublic service reformunder the Administration of the President of Russia. He is a member of several attestation commissions and expert councils for federal governmental bodies. He was a Woodrow Wilson (Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies) scholarin 1992 and 2013,President of the Kennan Russian Alumni Association (1992-1996), and President-elect of the Alumni Association for Russia-US Academic Exchange Programmes(1996-2000). From 2015 till the present he has served as a member of the Advisory Council of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies.
Laszlo Vass
Rector and professor at the Budapest College of Communication and Business, and the head of the Center for Government and Euroepan Public Policy Studies at the Corvinus University of Budapest.
His research interest is goverment, public management and public policy. He is author of papers and chapters in books and journals about the Hungarian public administration, civil service and administrative reforms. He is also a co-editor of the series of Political Yearbook of Hungary.
Mirko Vintar
Full Professor at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Administration in the fields of Administrative Information Systems and E-government at undergraduate and graduate level.
He has been visiting professor at several European universities. His research interests are focused in particular on Informatisation of Public Administration, Document management systems, Development and implementation of e-commerce in public sector, Organisational, social and economic aspects of e-government, E-government metrics, etc.
He has been author or co-author of more than hundred scientific articles in different national and international journals, monograph publications and conference proceedings. He has been chairing or co-chairing numerous working groups in particular within NISPAcee and EGPA annual conferences. He has been actively involved in founding and further development of NISPAcee, its steering committee member (1993-1998), organising its two annual conferences (Bled, 1995, Ljubljana, 2006), two Summer Schools (Portorož 1994, Prague 1997) and co-editor of several books published by NISPAcee. He has been or still is also member of several other international committees, EGPA steering committee (2000-2006), DEXA, E-gov Programme Committee and IFIP TC 13. He is also member of the national scientific counsel at Slovenian Research Agency.
He has been heading several international R&D projects under EU FP6, FP7 and TEMPUS programs and national research and development projects.