This paper argues that the role of informal institutions is central to understanding the politicization in Central and Eastern Europe generally and specifically in the formation of senior civil service (SCS) system. We focus on three diverse CEE countries in our analysis: Estonia, Hungary and...

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to examine whether the incentivizing type of performance appraisal (typical of New Public Management) has indeed been superseded by a post-New Public Management (NPM), developmental type of performance appraisal in European Civil Services....

Regulatory impact assessment (RIA) is a relatively new tool that has been introduced into the legislative system of the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia. To streamline its implementation, all three countries have decided to conduct a pilot RIA in a very similar area — administrative...

Gender Impact Assessment (GIA) has been institutionalized in different ways in Czech and Slovak Republics: Czech Republic introduced GIA independently of regulatory impact assessment (RIA) process relatively early on while Slovakia did so only during the modernization of RIA processes in the...

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to examine whether the incentivizing type of performance appraisal (typical of New Public Management) has indeed been superseded by a post-NPM, developmental type of performance appraisal in European civil services.Design/methodology/approach: The...

In the Slovak Republic, a number of internal ministerial advisory bodies, intended to provide high-quality analyses and evidence based policy making for national policy, have been established over the last two years. We have studied how the rational technocratic model of scientific policy advice...

This ReSPA study assesses the quality of implementing individual staff performance appraisal in the Western Balkan countries, notably Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Northern Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo*. It provides a comprehensive overview of similarities and differences of...

This paper argues that the extent to which national administrations transpose EU directives in a timely fashion may be related to how transposition is coordinated inside national ministries. Focusing on transposition through secondary legislation in Estonia, Poland and Slovenia, the paper finds...

Each year EU member states must pass many domestic legal acts to transpose newly adopted EU directives. What affects national transposition performance? How can it be improved? This report focuses on the role of administrative oversight understood as mechanisms for coordinating and monitoring...

In the last decade regulatory reforms have focused increasingly on efforts to improve regulatory quality. As part of that development policymakers have been encouraged to consider fiscal, socio-economic and administrative effects of proposed legislation when making policy choices. The Central...