One of the largest public sector reforms in Norway is the welfare administrative reform of 2005. The aims are to get passive beneficiaries back into work and to make the administration more user-friendly, holistic and efficient. The aims are to be achieved by increasing the administration’s...

Polish-Russian Cooperation of Pomorskie Province commenced in 1999 and was based on the intergovernmental agreements. The new agreement, executed between the authorities of the Pomeranian Province and Kaliningrad Oblast in 2002, provided for cooperation in many areas. The contacts between the...

Greece is in a deep crisis; the worst in all of Europe and the worst experienced in 45 years. Greece is no stranger to crises, but most have been exogenous: the Second World War and the Cold War, for instance. Sadly, unlike these crises, the present one is home-made. The wounds that it has...

This article attempts to take stock of the first stage of the performance management reforms in Russia (2004-2013), identify the lessons learned both from domestic and international experience and assess prospects for further development of the performance management principles and tools going...

The article studies interdisciplinary concept of self-regulation, particularly in its national domestic practice. Reduction in the degree of state control and regulation meets the basic idea of the administrative reform, and the authors believe that the ultimate goal should be in building up an...

The authors of the article show the intermediate results of inculcating the regulating impact valuation (RIV), consider the situation with it at the Federal and regional levels, using data of the monitoring of the RIV inculcation in the subjects of the RF, which was held by an autonomous...

The subject matter of the article is the measures taken by the public administration bodies and municipal authorities to improve the quality of public and municipal services. The goal of the article is to assess the governments efforts to increase the quality, accessibility of public services...

Licensing is one of the main administrative tools used for state regulation of the economy. It can serve as a fairly accurate "barometer" of the administrative burden, which the government provides the business with.This article analyzes the licensing of certain types of economic activities in...

The Russian concept of administrative reform aimed at increasing efficiency of power by putting in order, involving the executive power in the work. It is within the framework of reforming that an institution of administrative regulation actually emerges and develops. Relations regulated by the...

Introducing performance management principles was acknowledged as one of the directions of the administrative reform in the Russian Federation according to the Concept of administrative reform in the Russian Federation in 2006-2010 approved in 2005 and extended in 2008.The article reviews the...