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Strategic Policy Making in Central and Eastern Europe
Martin Brusis, Katarina Staroňová, Radoslaw Zubek
Date: 2007
ISBN: 978-80-89013-34-0
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The presented papers originate from the NISPAcee Working Group on Strategic Leadership in Central Government. They contain assessments of the relationship between specific ‘core executive’ institutions and policy performance as effective executive institutions should create the conditions for the emergence of different patterns of governance structures. The contributors have explored different aspects and dynamics of core executive activities across central and eastern European countries in order to determine its strategic policy making capacity. They offer assessments of the relationship between specific ‘core executive’ institutions and policy performance as effective executive institutions should create the conditions for the emergence of different patterns of governance structures. The various chapters investigate how executive reforms affect the legislative and policy outputs of executives in selected central and eastern European countries.
Contents
About the Authors ............................................................................................. 7
Introduction: The Challenge of Strategic Policy Making
Martin Brusis, Katarina Staroňová, Radoslaw Zubek ................................... 9
Chapter 1
Executive Configuration and Legislative Management: Experiences
from Bulgaria
Mina Shoylekova ............................................................................................ 19
Chapter 2
Institutionalising the Cabinet Government in Ukraine
Oleh Protsyk .................................................................................................. 43
Chapter 3
Explaining Russia’s New Strategic Orientation – Presidents,
Institutions and Regimes under Yeltsin and Putin
Pat Gray ......................................................................................................... 59
Chapter 4
In Search of Strategic Governance: Executive Reforms in Hungary
László Vass ...................................................................................................... 73
Chapter 5
Strategic Governance and the Czech Republic: Theoretical
Considerations, Real-life Performance
Martin Potůček ............................................................................................... 99
Chapter 6
Executive leadership and policy management System: The case of
Slovakia
Katarína Staroňová ...................................................................................... 117
Chapter 7
Measuring the Quality of Regulatory Impact Assessments in
Poland 2002 – 2003
Radoslaw Zubek ........................................................................................... 135
Chapter 8
Governance Indicators and Executive Reforms in Central and
Eastern Europe
Martin Brusis ................................................................................................ 151
Index of Authors Cited ................................................................................ 171
