Does Public Administration Higher Education in CEECs Reflect Demands Created by NPM Reforms?

Juraj Nemec; David Spacek; Patrycja Suwaj; Artur Modrzejewski

doi:10.2478/v10135-011-0010-2

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Does Public Administration Higher Education in CEECs Reflect Demands Created by NPM Reforms?

Review of Economic Perspectives

Volume 11 (2011): Issue 3 (September 2011)

By: Juraj Nemec, David Spacek, Patrycja Suwaj and Artur Modrzejewski

Open Access

|Oct 2011

Abstract

The first part of the paper summarizes NPM approaches in public administration reforms in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEECs), and focuses particularly on contracting of public services delivery, outsourcing of supportive services in public organizations and Program (performance) budgeting and performance evaluation and financing. The problems discussed in the first part open a discussion on public management education of civil servants in CEECs with which deals the second part of the paper. The data available clearly indicate that the contents and quality of public management higher education in the three selected countries - Slovakia, Czech Republic and Poland - do not meet the current needs of a modern state.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10135-011-0010-2 | Journal eISSN: 1804-1663 | Journal ISSN: 1213-2446

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Language: English

Page range: 124 - 140

Published on: Oct 5, 2011

Published by: Mendel University in Brno

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Keywords:

NPM,

public management reforms in CEECs,

civil servants' education

Related subjects:

Business and economics,

Political economics,

Economic theory, systems and structures

© 2011 Juraj Nemec, David Spacek, Patrycja Suwaj, Artur Modrzejewski, published by Mendel University in Brno
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