New Wine in Old Wineskins: General Administrative Procedure and Public Administration Reform in Croatia

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 183-197
Author(s):  
Vedran Đulabić
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
Legal Text ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Administrative Procedure ◽  
Public Administration Reform ◽  
Main Research Topic ◽  
The Eu

In  2009,  Croatia  adopted  the  new  General  Administrative  Procedure  Act (GAPA),  which  introduced  several  novelties  in  the  regulation  of  general administrative procedure. The main research topic deals with the changes that the new GAPA, as an incentive for public administration reform in Croatia, has produced. The empirical data were collected within the EU funded IPA project “Support  for  the  implementation  of  the  General  Administrative  Procedure Act” (2012−2013) and interpreted on the basis of institutional theory. Despite changes to the legal text, the empirical data show that the new GAPA has not resulted in actual changes in everyday public administration.

scholarly journals Public Administration Reform in Bulgaria: Top-down and Externally-driven Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-124
Author(s):  
Emilia Zankina
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Human Resources Management ◽  
External Pressure ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Public Administration Reform ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
The Eu

The article examines public administration reform (PAR) in Bulgaria and the main factors that shaped the reform agenda and dynamics. PAR is examined along five key dimensions – transparency and accountability, civil service and human resources management (HRM), public service delivery and digitalisation, organisation and management of government, and policy-making coordination and implementation. The article argues that there are four main factors influencing reform dynamics and determining policy outcomes in the Bulgarian case: the specific political choices made by government elites, external influence of the EU and of past national legacies, and the importance of institutions and reform mechanisms. To illustrate these factors at work, the article examines three policy initiatives, i.e. e-government, the reduction of administrative burden, and civil service reform. The article presents a longitudinal analysis and a qualitative case-study approach, utilising Annual Reports on the Status of the Public Administration 2001–2018, mapping European Semester Documents 2011–2017, an inventory of PAR initiatives 2005–2018, and interviews of public officials. The pushes for reform have been top-down, externally-driven, and stop-and-go in nature. The results confirm previous findings that Bulgaria is among the EU countries with the poorest record in PAR, struggling to overcome communist legacies and high levels of corruption and politicisation. The Bulgarian case highlights several important lessons: the importance of political will and political dynamics for the outcome of reform efforts; the importance of external pressure and financing; the difficulty of uprooting long-standing legacies in administrative traditions; and the limitations of the top-down approach as an obstacle to the sustainability of reform efforts.

scholarly journals AUGUST AHLQVIST’S “CULTURAL WORDS”: EXCERPTS ON THE HISTORY OF FINNO-UGRIC LANGUAGE STUDY DURING THE 1860S-1880S

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 405-410
Author(s):  
Aleksei Egorovich Zagrebin ◽  
Marina Alexandrovna Sadykova
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Important Conclusion ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Linguistic Methodology ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
Ethnic History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Main Research Topic

Karl August Engelbrekt Ahlqvist (literary pseudonym A. Oksanen) was a Finnish scholar, philologist and patriot who worked hard to create the Finnish standard language. The authors of the paper turn to some milestone facts from A. Ahlqvist’s academic biography. His meetings with some outstanding scholars, scientific expeditions to the kindred Finno-Ugric peoples, gathering of the unique field data as well as his educational activity were among those events. So-called “cultural words” became the main research topic of the paper. A. Ahlqvist classified “cultural words” according to human endeavors, locating genuine Finnish words among the loanwords. Having come to the conclusion that proper Finnish vocabulary comprised words which defined historically early, not specialized kinds of labour, A. Ahlqvist got firmly convinced that this fact witnessed the people’s historic youth period rather than its backwardness. Doing his research the scholar came to another important conclusion that the most part of the linguistic methodology was outdated then and needed updating. Thus A. Ahlqvist can be called a forerunner of the Neogrammarian turn. A. Ahlqvist became a pioneer in the Finno-Ugric language etymology study as well as in interdisciplinary approach in science, using the opportunities of “cultural words” analysis in the framework of the comparative historical method and as a means to reconstruct the Finnish ethnic history and culture.

scholarly journals IMPROVEMENT OF THE PROCEDURE FOR PROVIDING ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES TO TAXPAYERS IN THE CONTEXT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REFORM

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 45-49
Author(s):  
Viktor Bilous ◽  
Mykhailo Ternushchak ◽  
Dmytro Starodub
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
General Procedure ◽  
Practical Importance ◽  
Final Decision ◽  
Administrative Services ◽  
Administrative Procedure ◽  
Public Administration Reform ◽  
It Systems ◽  
Administrative Service ◽  
Scientific Substantiation

The article studies the procedure of providing administrative services to taxpayers in fiscal service authorities of Ukraine through the prism of public administration reform. Problems of development of IT systems, development and introduction of new IT mechanisms in management systems in part of providing e-services, and the introduction of virtual offices of e-services are analysed. Practices of improving the domestic system of providing administrative services on the example of the activity of taxpayer service centres are considered, statistical indicators of the existing centres of the provision of administrative services are given. Provisions of the Law “On Administrative Services” on the issue of mechanisms and ways of providing administrative services are analysed that allowed distinguishing typical stages and phases of administrative services’ provision. It is determined that the procedure of implementation of proceedings on the provision of administrative services in Ukraine is statutory-regulated order (is regulated by industry-specific regulatory documents (flow charts)) of consistent implementation of procedural actions (stages) by officials (administrators (consultants, moderators)) of Administrative Service Centres (ASC) for the counselling of the subjects of appeal, registration of the application, referral of application to whom it may concern (to structural units) for processing and imposing a resolution at each stage, and making a final decision on satisfaction or denial in relation to the issuance of an individual certificate of permit, verificatory, registration, licensing, attestation types. The practical importance of research is to clarify the general procedure for the provision of administrative services by taxpayer service centres of the fiscal services of Ukraine in terms of mechanisms, methods of providing administrative services, typical stages and phases of the provision of administrative services, which is extremely relevant in the phased introduction of the latest IT mechanisms of providing e-services. At present, the process of providing administrative services by public administration authorities of Ukraine is in a state of transformation and is being brought to the standards of the EU. In this sense, there is the theoretical and legal conditionality of applying to the practice of providing administrative services by fiscal authorities, such as those of the first in Ukraine that initiated the activity of administrative service centres (ASCs) and started to provide e-services. Therefore, the analysis of the provision of administrative services to taxpayers as a part of the development of a general administrative procedure is important for further scientific substantiation of improving the scope of the provision of administrative services in other bodies of the public administration of Ukraine in the context of public administration reform. Methodology. The methodology of scientific research consists of a set of methods of scientific knowledge, in particular: system-structural, functional, modelling, and generalization, which made it possible to investigate the abovementioned problems in the area of improving the procedure for providing administrative services to taxpayers.

scholarly journals Public Administration Reforms in Slovakia: Limited Outcomes (Why ?)

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juraj Nemec
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Standard Group ◽  
Civil Service Reform ◽  
Public Administration Reform ◽  
The Right ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Eu

AbstractThe goal of this paper is to document and to analyse public administration reform dynamics and outcomes in three selected areas – transparency and accountability, civil service and local self-governments.The high level of potential access to government information in Slovakia does not “produce” increased accountability, predictability and also does not effectively serve as a tool to control corruption. We argue that citizens are not only victims, but also accomplishers: their tolerance for corruption, excessive bureaucracy and rentseeking is confirmed by many existing studies.Concerning civil service reform, Slovakia shows a substantial reform reversal towards politicisation and centralisation after 2001, which clearly threatens the fundamental features of democratic governance. Soon after the EU accession in 2004 major regressive changes took place, and the Civil Service Office was abolished in 2006. The new legislation in force from 2017 (forced by the EU conditionality) should return the Slovak civil service back on the right track – let us to see.With regard to self-government the reforms aimed towards the establishment of more independent local and regional self-government. However, the major issue here is the extreme fragmentation on the municipal level – almost 3,000 municipalities in the country, most of them bellow 1,000 inhabitants. Many studies confirm that amalgamation (or at least functional amalgamation) is necessary – but there is no political will to start it.What are the main lessons from the Slovak case ? The information provided indicates that the Slovak Republic belongs to the “standard” group of CEE countries – after the first wave of democratisation reforms immediately after 1989, most of the later changes were realised “thanks to” external motivations and pressures – and not always really welcomed. The specific issue, however, is the decentralisation reform in 2000 – 2005. This change, providing really fragmented local self-government by extra rights and responsibilities, was internally driven, with positive results from the point of view of self-government principles, but with many hurdles caused by too large a number of too small municipalities.

scholarly journals Innovative Administrative Procedure Law: Mission Impossible ?

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Polonca Kovač
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Alternative Dispute Resolution ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Administrative Procedure ◽  
One Stop ◽  
Administrative Procedures ◽  
Mind Set ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Eu

Abstract Law and innovation are oft en seen as antagonistic notions, particularly in administrative (authoritative) relations. Th is paper addresses this issue based on the regulation of administrative procedures, since they represent core public-administration activities in contemporary society. Hence, they need to be codified and implemented, both on the EU and national levels, in a more flexible and party-oriented way, even though still preserving legal certainty. The author argues that Europeanisation contributes to innovation in administrative procedure law, with institutions such as alternative dispute resolution or one-stop-shops. In order to explore the potential drivers of and barriers to innovation, particularly in Eastern Europe, a survey and several structured interviews were carried out in Slovenia as a case study. Th e results reveal that the culture in the region is legalistically driven and thus hinders innovation, even that which has already been introduced in the law. Consequently, a key obstacle to be addressed in future measures is the mind-set in public administration rather than a pure legal change.

Public administration reform in Macedonia

2013 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 481-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa Cierco
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Research Question ◽  
The State ◽  
Administration System ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Slow Pace ◽  
Public Administration Reform ◽  
Balkan Countries

The Western Balkan countries have made important steps in the advancement of democracy. However, public administration remains a field where reforms progress very slowly, due to a combination of reasons, ranging from economic and political to cultural ones. Macedonia is not an exception. This paper analyzes the main reasons for the slow pace of reforms in Macedonia’s public administration sector. The focus on public administration and the state contributes to understanding the priority of establishing a professional, efficient and transparent public administration system in a country in the process of European accession. The main research question is why reforms in Macedonia’s public administration sector have been so difficult to implement.

Timeslot Management’s Design and Implementation of AIS Terminal Equipment

2015 ◽  
Vol 740 ◽  
pp. 861-865
Author(s):  
Ying Jin ◽  
Shu Fang Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
Automatic Identification ◽  
Identification System ◽  
Current Frame ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Fpga Chip ◽  
Main Research Topic ◽  
Terminal Equipment

Our project team designed and realized an Automatic Identification System (AIS) terminal equipment specifically which is based on an ARM7 chip and compatible with a self-developed FPGA chip. The main research topic is about the timeslot management and implementation in this equipment. I designed a timeslot list in the form of an array, to storage every timeslot state in each channel and current frame real-time, intuitively, and conveniently. When there is a timeslot-occupied or a timeslot-reserved in the equipment, the timeslot list can storage the timeslot state real-time. This timeslot state is defined as whether each timeslot is currently occupied, what action occupied it, how long the timeout is. And manage the timeslot every timeslot by timeout, to realize each timeslot management in A/B channels. When the equipment will select candidate timeslots to send message, it could read the timeslot state by the timeslot number directly to know whether it can send message in this timeslot. Make sure its timeslot reuse, prevent its timeslot collision, and realize the communication real-time and effective.

scholarly journals Application Status and Prospect of 3D Printing Technology in the Field of Medical Devices

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fei Ma
Keyword(s):  
3D Printing ◽  
Medical Devices ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
Printing Technology ◽  
Main Research ◽  
3D Printing Technology ◽  
Main Research Topic ◽  
Manufacturing Science

 3D printing technology belongs to a new manufacturing science and has been widely used in various fields of industry. This article will apply 3D printing technology as its main research topic, with emphasis on its application in the field of medical devices and prospects for contribution.

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