The first pilot of a series of annual volumes that will start from 2008 as the NISPAcee Yearbook in Public Administration and Public Policy. In each article, the authors explore the unique experience of a particular country, identify the approaches that were used by these countries, and assess the success and sustainability of these approaches.

Table ofContents

Foreword

Mzia Mikeladze ....................................................................................................7

Part I

Technical Assistance for Building Professional Public Administration in CEE and the CIS: What’s Gone Wrong?

David Coombes ................................................................................................13

The Public Decision-making System in Hungary; Main Problems and Possible Measures for Its Improvement

János Hoós ..........................................................................................................33

Patient Safety: a Policy Framework

Peter Makai ........................................................................................................65

Europeanisation of Higher Education in the Area of Administrative Sciences in Romania

Lucica Matei ......................................................................................................87

Public Administration Reform in Serbia and European Integration Processes: On the Same or Parallel Tracks?

Milena Mihajlovic ...........................................................................................131

The Role of the Bulgarian Public Administration System in the Transition to "Market Based” Urban Development

Alexander D. Slaev ..........................................................................................157

Part II

CaseStudies

Political Bias in Discretionary Funding for Municipalities: The Case of Slovakia

Miroslav Beblavý, Emília Sičáková-Beblavá ..................................................183

Contracting-out Local Public Services – Situation and Trends in Slovakia and the Czech Republic

Beáta Meričková, Juraj Nemec .......................................................................191

Methods of Selection of External Suppliers of Local Public Services and the Impact of the Quality of the Selection Procedure on the Per Capita Cost zech Republic

Jan Pavel ..........................................................................................................205

Communication and Electronic Public Administration: Some Issues in

the Context of the Czech System of Public Administration

David Špaček, Jiří Špalek .................................................................................217

Major Changes in the Romanian Public Utility Services and the Main Actions

Gabriela Stanciulescu,Armenia Androniceanu .............................................239

Part III

NISPAcee Best Graduate Student Paper from the 14th NISPAcee Annual Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, May2006

The Role Patterns of Ministers’ Personal Advisors in the Politico- administrative Dichotomy. Comparative Case Study of Two Estonian Ministries

Maria Keris, Jako Salla ...................................................................................263

Index .............................................................................................................................287

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