Governing “Transition”

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 575-611
Author(s):  
Kristina Muhhina
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Critical Case ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Prevailing Paradigm ◽  
Governance Arrangements ◽  
Postcommunist Societies

Even though the changes in governance arrangements of postcommunist countries have received considerable attention from the observers of the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region, “transition” as the prevailing paradigm for governing postcommunist societies has rarely been questioned. More than 20 years, it has served as the guiding framework for thinking about and practicing postsocialist transformation. By using Estonia as a critical case among the CEE countries, this research employs Foucauldian discourse analysis and deconstructive reading for exploring how public administration has been constituted by governing postcommunist change as “transition” and the limitations of, and the alternatives to, this approach.

Legitimacy in Public Administration: A Discourse Analysis

2000 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
Ann Langley ◽  
O. C. McSwite
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Public Administration

scholarly journals Diversity Discourse Analysis on Top Romanian Organizations

TEM Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1540-1547
Author(s):  
Radu-Dan Irini
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
European Context ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Diversity Discourse

Although the Anglo-American notion of diversity management is dominating most of the global corporate discussions, this concept still has ample room for improvement in the Eastern European context. Having this in mind, in the current study, the websites of the top 20 organizations located in Romania were content analysed in search of statements and definitions related to diversity, equality, or inclusion. The main findings suggest that there are notable differences between how the top Romanian organizations address different diversity dimensions together with how elaborate the diversity discourse is presented. Throughout the research in the Romanian context, 19 diversity dimensions were identified. The majority of the analysed organizations have at least one diversity statement on their official website, addressing a minimum of three diversity dimensions, however, in the case of seven organizations, there was no statement referring to diversity, equality, or inclusion.

scholarly journals Enlargement by Stealth?

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-156
Author(s):  
Antoaneta L. Dimitrova
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Objective Assessment ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Political Conditionality ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Technical Character ◽  
Technical Issues

This article argues that the EU’s enlargement negotiations with Eastern European applicants have become possible to a large extent by the introduction of objective assessment by the Commission, which allowed integration to proceed despite the threat of deadlock. The process of negotiations and preparation, however, should be better seen as a constant switching between the technical parts of the acquis and their (potential) political consequences. These arguments are developed in an analysis of Bulgaria’s path to accession. The analysis shows that in the domestic arena, the same tensions between the seemingly technical character of the negotiations and their political implications and consequences can be observed. The article will argue that while the emphasis on objective criteria and technical issues obscured the potential political consequences and effects on various sectors of the economy and society, stalled reforms in public administration or the judiciary belonged to the realm of its unintended consequences. Rule of law did not reform significantly despite the introduction of a special tool of political conditionality, the EU’s Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (cvm). The politicization of issues changed over time, with some measures affecting political cleavages more than a decade after Bulgaria’s accession.

Representatie van sekswerk in Nederland: een vergelijking tussen Jojanneke in de prostitutie en Filemon op de Wallen

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-184
Author(s):  
Linda Duits ◽  
Floor Boschhuizen
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Red Light ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Red Light District ◽  
Restrictive Policy

Abstract Representation of sex work in the Netherlands: a comparison between Jojanneke in de prostitutie and Filemon op de Wallen Since 1999, sex work in the Netherlands has been partly legalized. Despite a reputation of tolerance, Dutch media represent sex workers as victims, opening the door to more restrictive policy. In this article, we report on a discourse analysis of two documentary series, Jojanneke in the prostitution (2015) and Filemon in the Red Light District (2017). We show that stigmatizing discourses dominate the former: sex work is brought as a gruesome, criminal practice, that even as a chosen profession is unattractive, where Dutch natives and escorts are the exception to the rule and where women lack agency. The latter title is more ambivalent. Discourses of sex work as work dominate, but it also emphasizes that sex work is an unattractive profession where Eastern-European workers are naive victims and that is inextricably related to crime. Recommendations for journalists to counter stigma are made.

scholarly journals How Taxes Can Contribute to The Implementation of The Public Governance Strategy? – An Analysis for Eastern European Countries

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 18-32
Author(s):  
Cristina Vlad ◽  
Birol Ibadula ◽  
Petre Brezeanu
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Public Governance ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Contributions ◽  
Governance Strategy ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
The Eu

Abstract The paper begins with a short literature review regarding the public governance concept in the EU approach and its methods for establishing a common way to manage different situations for all member states; we discovered that the problems they confront with have to do with good governance and qualitative public administration. In the second part, we developed an econometric model for three Eastern European countries and we found a strong correlation between the total revenues from taxes and social contributions and total gross debt in 2002-2014 period. We ended the paper by emphasizing the conclusions obtained.

scholarly journals Popular Hymnody and Lived Catholicism in Hungary in the 1970s–1980s

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 438
Author(s):  
Kinga Povedák
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Mass Movement ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Iron Curtain ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Devotional Practices ◽  
New Perspective

In this article, I look at how popular hymnody and the surrounding devotional and liturgical practices changed after the Second Vatican Council in Hungary. The songs amongst authoritarian, atheistic circumstances sounded astonishingly similar to the emerging “folk mass movement”. The discourse analysis of Hungarian popular hymnody contributes to a new perspective of Eastern European Catholicism and helps us understand how “lived Catholicism” reflects the post-Vatican spirit. Post-Vatican popular hymnody, a catalyst for a new style of devotional practices, is understood as “performed theology” behind the Iron Curtain expressing relationality, as it actualizes and manifests spiritual, eschatological, and ecclesial relationships.

scholarly journals The Influence of EU Law on Public Administration in New Member States

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-61
Author(s):  
Radomír Jakab
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
The European Union ◽  
European Union Law ◽  
Member States ◽  
New Member States ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
Almost All

The membership of Central and Eastern European countries in the European Union has influenced the development of almost all branches of law, including administrative law. The paper analyses the influence of European Union law on the fundamental object of interest of administrative law within new member states – on public administration and its laws. In this context, the influence on laws governing the organisation of public administration, laws governing the activities and tasks of public administration as well as laws governing processes in public administration will be assessed.

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