scholarly journals Changes in financial position of state as a security problem

2016 ◽  
Vol 68 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 193-208
Author(s):  
Ivica Djordjevic ◽  
Zoran Jeftic
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Debt ◽  
Constant Pressure ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Public Institution ◽  
Economic Relationships ◽  
The Public ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
Financial Position ◽  
Security Problem

The second half of the 20th century will be remembered as the period of the biggest liberalisation in history in the area of international economic relationships. Many factors served that fact. First of all, attempts to eliminate circumstances which were the root cause of previous world wars. Along with liberalisation of the trade processes, there was a process of growth of public debt which significantly restricted public institution activities. Due to lack of funds in the budget, countries were forced to mortgage and pay a significant amount of money for the rates of interest. Developing countries are especially in a very difficult position because they are under constant pressure and are forced to accept unfavorable arrangements in order to make their system work at all. The circumstances which were mentioned are the hardest for the citizens, primarily due to the lack of funds for the financing of the public sector. Because of the various restrictions, the health system, education and public administration, have a constant deficit and are not able to follow the needs of the local population. Dysfunction of national institutions represents a security problem par excellence.

Ukrainian Civil Service: Implementation of the Public Administration Reform Strategy in Ukraine

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1439
Author(s):  
Oleksandra I. VASYLIEVA ◽  
Sergii V. SLUKHAI ◽  
Svitlana K. KHADZHYRADIEVA ◽  
Andriy A. KLOCHKO ◽  
Anna G. PASHKOVA
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Practical Importance ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Public Institution ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Legal Compliance ◽  
Administrative Services ◽  
The Public ◽  
Soviet Legacy

Civil service as a public institution is called to increase the life quality standards for the population by delivery of high-quality administrative services, forming and ensuring the implementation of the public policy, supervision and control over legal compliance of public bodies’ and officials’ actions. However, in Ukraine it does not fully meet these objectives and requires substantial reforming. The relevance of this study lies in an active interest of philosophers, scientists, and lawyers in the research and definition of socio-economic and political turbulence in modern Ukraine caused by internal and external factors. The paper discusses the innovations of civil service in Ukraine, which are aimed at improving the performance and ensuring the quality of civil service. The results of this paper demonstrate that Ukraine has moved quite a distance from the Soviet legacy as far as civil service is concerned. Nevertheless, the country still has a lot to be done: these achievements must be supported by steady efforts so as to make them irreversible and to significantly increase the efficiency of public administration. In this connection, the civil service reform in Ukraine must be supported not only by policy measures that enhance the professionalism of civil servants, but also by the improvement of their public image. The practical importance is determined by the need to formulate priority ways of raising the country’s economic competitiveness and promoting social welfare.  

Lean thinking: planning and implementation in the public sector

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 390-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliana Pascualote Lemos de Almeida ◽  
Simone Vasconcelos Ribeiro Galina ◽  
Marcia Mazzeo Grande ◽  
Daiane Gressler Brum
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Regulatory Agency ◽  
Control Process ◽  
Public Institution ◽  
Longitudinal Case Study ◽  
Lean Thinking ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Public Agency ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private Organizations

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse how Lean office planning and implementation take place in a Brazilian regulatory agency and to investigate the adjustments needed for its implementation. Design/methodology/approach A longitudinal case study was conducted. Interview was the main source of evidence. Between September and October 2012, data about the planning phase were collected; between April and May 2015, Lean office implementation was investigated. Altogether, five employees of the agency were interviewed. Findings The agency assumed its mission as value for the user, establishing control process, evaluating and improving processes to achieve perfection and recognising its weakness in a continuous improvement culture. Planning and implementation of Lean office in the regulatory agency followed the main recommendations in the literature. However, adjustments were necessary in accordance with the particularities of the public institution. Research limitations/implications Owing to the nature of this study, no generalisation was possible. Moreover, interviews with managers were about both Lean planning, which has taken place in the past, and Lean implementing, which is still running; thus, some information may be abstruse. Practical implications It was possible to list the main adjustments needed for planning and implementing the Lean office in the public agency and some are applicable for other public administration bodies. Originality/value Lean office studies are mainly related to private organizations, but this paper demonstrates that their fundamentals are preserved in public service, and thus it proved that Lean thinking may be applied to the public administration. It also raised a series of questions for future studies.

scholarly journals Aspects of Understanding Government’s Public Institutions Behavior Necessary to Design Reforms

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-92
Author(s):  
Stefan Imre
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Public Institution ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Main Determinants ◽  
Conceptual Transfer

Abstract This paper presents some aspects found by the author in his research in field of government public institutions behavior. The author started some years ago to research the modality how should prepare a conceptual transfer of management from the companies practice to government public institutions and to implement them for enhance quality of their results. The main concept of the theoretical research is based on some well-known theoretical remarks. One of this shows that the public institutions are similar entities as companies. Eventually they have higher complexity. Following this logic, the public institutions should be led by management instead public administration. Considering public management and the new public management only some attempts without solving the main problems, the author consider that implementing procedural efficiency oriented management to the government public institution is equivalent with an important changes induced by outside. Preparing the conceptual transfer, for the first period of research was necessary to understand government’s public institution behavior. For this purpose the relational frame was the business organization. In this respect the research compares organizational behavior of companies and public institutions and their reaction to important changes. For understand similarities and differences it was necessary to discover theoretical standpoints regarding companies reaction to important changes induced by outside and main determinants from the organizational sciences literature. In the similar way was studied the public institution reaction and determinants of this to important changes, theoretically through documentary analyses of the literature of public administration. The benchmarking between the reactions of the mentioned two entities discovered different behaviors and the main determinants of the reactions of them to a new form of leading system by management, including modern instruments as knowledge management. The paper conclusions sustain that implementation of modern management systems to government’s public institutions should deal with a different behavior used to know at companies. In this respect, the paper highlights different aspects between companies and public institutions behavior admitting similarities on organizational structure and internal procedures.

scholarly journals When language becomes law: the methodology and criteria adopted by the South Tyrolean terminology commission for the standardisation of German and Italian translation equivalents

Linguistica ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-23
Author(s):  
Elena Chiocchetti ◽  
Natascia Ralli ◽  
Isabella Stanizzi
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Selection Criteria ◽  
Local Population ◽  
German Language ◽  
Term Selection ◽  
The Public ◽  
Italian Law ◽  
Daunting Task ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
The Right

South Tyrol is a part of Northern Italy where a large German-speaking minority lives. In 1972 the local population was granted the right to use the minority language with the public administration, in court and in all realms of public life (DPR 672/1972). An urgent need for a clear and consistent German legal language that faithfully reflected the Italian legal system ensued. The task of responding to such terminological emergency was assigned to a commission of six legal experts and translators (DPR574/1988), who were to officially validate (i.e. standardise) the German language equivalents to the existing legal and administrative Italian terms. The use of the newly standardised terminology is mandatory for all public bodies. After about 20 years of activity, the proposed paper aims at analysing the results obtained and difficulties faced by the Commission during their daunting task of creating a German language terminology to express the concepts of Italian law with a constant view to the neighbouring well-established German speaking legal systems. The paper will illustrate the decision-making process, term selection criteria and strategies of neologyas well as discuss the procedural problems and terminological inconsistencies on the basis of real examples.

scholarly journals Ethics and Efficiency of Communication during COVID-19 Pandemic; Role of Public Administration Digitalization

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andra-Nicoleta Borţea ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Public Institution ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Online Environment ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Risky Behaviour ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
The Public

In the age of technology, communication seems to be much easier for public institutions. Citizens' access to the necessary information is much easier, by accessing official websites or by e-mail. The pandemic has limited people's access to interaction with public institutions, which has increased the need to use online digital tools. Thus, the process of digitalization and the process of modernization of the public administration were hastened. This has led to the emergence of new types of social behaviours that have had negative effects on the use of digital tools by public entities. Until now, several approaches to public administration ethics have existed, and they have mostly centered on the civil servant's behaviour in his interaction with citizens and his respect for the workplace. As the online environment has become a necessity for public services in the digital age, ethics in the public system meets new challenges. Today, there is a need for a modernized digital system for civil servants to use. It should facilitate applicants' access to information and protect the confidentiality of certain information in an ethical and professional manner for all parties involved, in order to reduce misinformation. Misinformation in a pandemic can have serious consequences: it can lead to ignoring official health advice and risky behaviour, or it can have a negative impact on our democratic institutions and societies, as well as on the economic and financial situation. Therefore, there is a need for new protection measures, that can protect people, not only for medical safety in a public institution, but for ethic means in the online environment.

scholarly journals Features of the EU and Ukraine’s debt policy

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 254-261
Author(s):  
Igor Chugunov ◽  
Valentyna Makohon ◽  
Yuliya Markuts
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Debt ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Debt Management ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Debt Management ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Debt Policy ◽  
The Eu

The world economic globalization determines the feasibility of rethinking fiscal system knowledge on the formation and implementation of debt policy in the countries with transformation and advanced economies. In order to improve the system of public administration, the proper level of financing of innovation-investment projects, the important task is to improve the effectiveness of debt policy instruments and to ensure the consistency of its components. This article describes the essence of debt policy. The features of formation and implementation of the EU and Ukraine’s debt policy in the public administration system are defined in the context of institutional transformations. The authors assess the share of gross debt of the EU countries and the sovereign debt of Ukraine in GDP; conduct a regression analysis of the impact of public debt in GDP on real GDP growth in Ukraine. The article discusses the debt policy tasks, summarizes and systematizes the approaches to its implementation in different countries. The authors identify the features of public debt management strategies in terms of marginal indicators of the budget deficit, public debt, and instruments for improving the effectiveness of the public debt management system. The impact of debt policy on country’s financial and economic security is substantiated.

scholarly journals The Potential of Rural Tourism Development in the Azores Islands from the Perspective of Public Administration and Decision-Makers

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 713-721
Author(s):  
Gualter Couto ◽  
Pedro Pimentel ◽  
Maria Da Graça Batista ◽  
Áurea Sousa ◽  
Célia Carvalho ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
The Public ◽  
Azores Islands

Regional planning policies are an essential instrument for allowing the local inhabitants' necessary life quality standards. Those planning tools support future living prosperity in that territory, encouraging the ending of spatial and social inequalities as an incentive instrument for the so-desired sustainable development. Thereby, this paper aims to analyze the Public Administration and Decision-Makers' opinions concerning the Potential of Rrural Tourism Development in the Azores Islands. We used an exploratory methodology, which enabled to assess those perceptions. Consequently, it was possible to understand that the public administration's role in fostering and coordinating rural tourism is pivotal for this activity's continued sustained growth. Besides, throughout this study, it was possible to understand that regional development has been decisive and has decidedly influenced the local population. The research also recognizes that are many advantages in this typology of tourism for local communities - i.e., job creation or stimulating the local economy, are just a few examples.

scholarly journals Public Administration’s Regulatory Acts: Classification Issues

2019 ◽  
Vol 87 (4) ◽  
pp. 71-80
Author(s):  
V. R. Bila
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Public Institution ◽  
Legal Form ◽  
The Public ◽  
Legal Power ◽  
Legal Obligations ◽  
Regulatory Law ◽  
Professional Self ◽  
Subjective Rights

The author has attempted to group public administration’s normative acts. The advantages of classification as the method of cognition of state and legal phenomena and rules of its conduction have been outlined. The criteria for classification of public administration’s regulatory acts have been clarified. That made it possible to specify the content of the components identified as a result of the classification. The author has emphasized the necessity of forming theoretical system of regulatory acts as forms of public administration, establishing their clear hierarchy and competent independence. Based on the competence of the public administration entity, it has been offered to distinguish general, departmental, interagency and local regulatory acts. The author has offered to improve the competence of public administration agencies with regard to normative and legal regulation of public administration relations. The author has indicated on the need to rethink the scope of the concept of local regulatory acts and has offered to include exclusively the acts of professional self-government agencies of socially important professions. The author has emphasized on the necessity to set general requirements for local rule-making in order to avoid procedural violations. According to the functional purpose, the author has offered to distinguish program, regulatory, law enforcement, competence, statutory and structural acts, as well as planning acts. Competent acts define the sphere of responsibility, main tasks and powers, managerial relations within the agency of public administration and its organizational and legal form; structural acts – the territorial and functional structure of public administration agencies, distribution of powers, etc., statutory acts – the procedure of management and functioning of public institution. Program and planning acts do not cause the immediate effects of legal consequences such as the emergence, change or termination of subjective rights and legal obligations and related legal relations, which, however, does not mean that they do not lose the features of normativity. The legal force of such acts will depend on the entity that approved the act: the higher its place in the hierarchy of executive authorities, the higher its legal power.

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