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Implementation The Missing Link in Public Administration Reform in Central and Eastern Europe
William N. Dunn, Katarina Staronova, Sergei Pushkarev
Date: 2006
ISBN: 80-89013-24-4
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Contributors to this book have explored different aspects and dynamics of implementation, including factors governing its success and failure. These contributors offer assessments of public management reforms, along with the capacity to implement these reforms, in local governments in the region; in case studies of contracting out emergency medical services in Estonia; in the analysis of local government employee training in Kyrgyzstan, and in a case study of the role of performance measures in implementing health care delivery in Slovakia. In addition, contributors have focused on the preparatory stage for implementation when asking the question of what politicians expect from the public bureaucracy and what the public bureaucracy offers them in order to make informed decisions that prepare governments for implementing individual policies. The results from the research in
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Contents
About the Authors .................................................................................... 7
Chapter 1
Implementation – the Missing Link
William N. Dunn, Katarína Staroňová, Sergei Pushkarev .......................... 13
Chapter 2
The Characteristics of Public Administration Reform in Transition
Countries vis a vis Implementation Capacity
Katarína Staroňová ........................................................................................ 29
Chapter 3
Why CEE Countries, NPM Principles and Bad Policy
Implementation Could Easily be Fatal Friends: The Case
of Estonian Local Governments
Kristiina Tõnnisson ........................................................................................ 43
Chapter 4
The Non-implementation of Western Assistance Programmes:
The Advisor‘s Point of View
Iwona Sobis, Michiel S. de Vries ................................................................... 65
Chapter 5
Learning For Successful Implementation: Employee Training and
Development in Kyrgyzstan
Bolotbek Orokov, Dan Durning, Sergei Pushkarev ..................................... 91
Chapter 6
On Importance of Ex Ante Analysis in Implementing
Contracting Out: Lessons from the Estonian Emergency
Medical Service
Veiko Lember ................................................................................................ 111
Chapter 7
The Effects of Policy Impact Assessment in the Decision Making
Process in the Government of the Republic of Macedonia
Magdalena Shaldeva ..................................................................................... 125
Chapter 8
Reforms of Health Care Delivery in Slovakia and their
Impact on Hospitals’ Performance: Quality of Services
and Quality of Financial Management
Juraj Nemec .................................................................................................. 145
Chapter 9
Comparing Experiences of Introducing an Impact Assessment
Requirement to Draft Legislation in CEE:
The Case of Slovakia, Hungary and Estonia
Katarína Staroňová , Zsombor Kovacsy, Aare Kasemets ............................ 165
Chapter 10
Conclusions: Strengthening Linkages Between Administrative
Reforms, Implementation and Performance
Katarína Staroňová, Sergei Pushkarev and William Dunn ....................... 199
Index of Authors Cited ....................................................................... 207
Subject Index .......................................................................................... 211
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