This presentation was realized for the Public Management and Transparency Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue at the 4th Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on December 11th and 12th, 2003. This presentation discusses downsizing the Civil Service in Central and Eastern Europe and specifically the...

Wang Anshi (1021--1086) is well known as one of the greatest statesmen of classical China, but it is rarely recognized that his 1058 ‘Wan Yan Shu’ is one of the first texts of public management in the modern sense. This is because Wang addressed still current concerns of a civil...

The most important reform movement of the last quarter of a century within public administration has been the New Public Management (NPM). In defining NPM, it has proven useful (such as in Pollitt and Dan 2013) to view it as a two-level phenomenon.

Esta presentación fue realizada en la 4ta Reunión Hemisférica de la Red de Gestión Pública y Transparencia del Diálogo Regional de Política celebrada los días 11 y 12 de diciembre de 2003. Esta presentación discute redimensionamiento del Servicio Central en Europa Central y Oriental. Se...

This presentation was realized for the Public Management and Transparency Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue at the 4th Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on December 11th and 12th, 2003. This presentation discusses downsizing the Civil Service in Central and Eastern Europe and specifically the...

The study starts with a review of the given task, defines the region, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), and presents the countries selected for the case studies, Hungary, Estonia, and Eastern Germany. Complexities of the task are explained and relevant data supplied, and the study focused...

The title of this essay is programmatic: I will attempt to suggest and tentatively conceptualize and that there are (at least) three paradigms of governance and especially public administration (PA). Briefly put, this means that there is not one global best (practice of) PA, but that what we...

The by now highly alternative, barely even heterodox economics that dominated Germany, and in fact Continental Europe and much of the world, between the late middle of the 19th Century and the early 20th and that is at the basis both of the Social Market Economy and of much of the modern Welfare...

The expert contributors gathered here approach underdevelopment and inequality from different evolutionary perspectives. It is argued that the Schumpeterian processes of ‘creative destruction' may take the form of wealth creation in one part of the globe and wealth destruction in another. Case...

This thoroughly updated and revised edition of a popular and authoritative reference work introduces the reader to the major concepts and leading contributors in the field of law and economics. The Companion features accessible, informative and provocative entries on all the significant issues,...