Civil Service Reform in Post-Communist Countries (LUP Dissertaties)

✍ Scribed by Alexander Kotchegura

• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 286
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Why the state bureaucracy in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) appears to have been least of all affected by the post-communist transformation when compared to other public institutions and sectors of the economy? Why declared reforms of civil services failed so far to reach most of their objectives and even have had counter-productive effect in some cases? On the basis of a comprehensive analysis of the development of the Russian and Czech state administration over the last decade and a half the author provides a thorough insight into the causes of the prevailing tendencies in the administrative development of CEE countries and explores key factors that have led to more than modest results in the reforms of their civil services.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Ch 1: Introduction......Page 12
Ch 2: Comparison of Civil Service Reforms:Issues of Theory and Methodology......Page 19
Ch 3: The Russian Civil Service: Evolution, Status and Reform Capacity......Page 44
Ch 4: Reform of the Russian Civil Service: Who Will Win this Time - Bureaucracy or Politicians?......Page 76
Ch 5: The Czech Civil Service: Historical Legacy, Current Situation and Capacity for Reform......Page 104
Ch 6: Reform of the Czech Civil Service: Internal Imperative or External Pressure?......Page 127
Ch 7: Comparative Analysis of Civil Service Systems in the Russian Federation and the Czech Republic: is there more Differences or Similarities?......Page 151
Ch 8: Comparison of Civil Service Reforms in Russia and The Czech Republic: Dynamics, Dimensions and Explanatory Factors......Page 178
Ch 9: Findings and Conclusions......Page 219
Bibliography......Page 234
Summary......Page 246
Samenvatting......Page 251
Curriculum Vitae......Page 257
Annex 1......Page 258
Annex 2......Page 272
Annex 3......Page 281