National sports associations in Slovakia are the umbrella organizations for individual types of sports and help achieve the objectives of public policies in the field of sports. In the Slovak Republic, these sports organizations are predominantly funded from public funds. This paper focuses on...

Hundreds of thousands of articles related to COVID-19 have been published worldwide, and many of them have focused on public administration and public policy aspects related to this pandemic. Certainly, the general lack of relevant knowledge and necessary experience for a robust governance...

In the new EU member states, there are very few studies analyzing the role of central and local self-governments in co-design processes. Nevertheless, such studies are particularly important as co-creation takes place in the context of former post-communist countries where central power reigned...

This paper studies the trust-based efficiency gains in public sector with focus on transitional economies. We conducted a survey of public buyers in Russia and Slovakia in 2020. The results show that the generalized trust is positively related to procurement efficiency, though this effect is...

The goal of this article is to evaluate what the Czech and Slovak governments have done to protect their countries and try to assess why they have achieved different results for the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. The basis for such evaluation is the concept of collaborative...

This chapter explores the impact of fiscal rules on the indebtedness of municipalities in the Czech Republic and Slovakia from a comparative perspective. Our analysis focuses on the content of municipal fiscal rules, their impact on aggregate levels of local government debt in both countries and...