LEADER 03646nam 22005895 450 001 9910986145503321 005 20250415002558.0 010 $a9783031806681 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-80668-1 035 $a(CKB)37836624000041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31957532 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31957532 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-80668-1 035 $a(OCoLC)1510359829 035 $a(EXLCZ)9937836624000041 100 $a20250312d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$a35 Years of Public Sector Reform in Central Europe /$fby Michiel S. de Vries, Juraj Nemec 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (267 pages) 225 1 $aGovernance and Public Management,$x2524-7298 311 08$a9783031806674 327 $a1. Introduction -- 2. Institutional drivers of reforms and reformism -- 3. The development in the goals of reforms -- 4. Reform processes in practice: decentralization and recentralization -- 5. Reform processes in practice: towards and away from principles of good governance -- 6. Reform processes in practice: improving public service delivery -- 7. Reflections and Conclusions. 330 $aThis book examines public administration reforms in Central and Eastern Europe during the last three decades. After 1989, so-called socialist countries in Central and Eastern Europe started their transformation from centralistic to democratic societies. Their public administration systems changed dramatically, to adopt new norms and principles. Focusing on current EU-member states in the region, the book identifies similarities and differences in their public administrative reforms. Paying particular attention to three policy areas ? education, health care, and local services ? it assesses the historical roots of public administrative reforms, and how the legacy of being former members of the Warsaw Pact are still visible. The book argues that there are important differences between administrations in Central and Eastern European countries compared to older EU-member states, and that even within these countries, significant differences can be seen between developments and administrative reforms at the national and local level. It concludes by assessing the implications of these arguments for candidate EU members, and the complexities and pitfalls they might encounter in this process. Michiel S. de Vries is Professor of Public Administration at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania, and Emeritus Professor at Radboud University, the Netherlands. Juraj Nemec is Professor of Public Finance and Public Management, Masaryk University, Czechia. . 410 0$aGovernance and Public Management,$x2524-7298 606 $aPolitical planning 606 $aPublic administration 606 $aEurope$xHistory 606 $aPublic Policy 606 $aPublic Administration 606 $aEuropean History 615 0$aPolitical planning. 615 0$aPublic administration. 615 0$aEurope$xHistory. 615 14$aPublic Policy. 615 24$aPublic Administration. 615 24$aEuropean History. 676 $a320.6 700 $aVries$b Michiel S. de$f1957-.$01812636 701 $aNemec$b Juraj$f1960-$01812635 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910986145503321 996 $a35 Years of Public Sector Reform in Central Europe$94365118 997 $aUNINA