Post-Communist Transformations: The Countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Russia in Comparative Perspective. Hayashi, T. – Ogushi, A. (eds.) Slavic Eurasian Studies No. 21, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 2009. The chapter begins with the enumeration of relevant welfare state theories and the identification of macro-societal factors influencing the welfare state transformations in…
The Concept of the Neo-Weberian State Confronted by the Multi-Dimensional Concept of Governance.
The Concept of the Neo-Weberian State Confronted by the Multi-Dimensional Concept of Governance. The NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy. Special Issue: A Distinctive European Model? The Neo-Weberian State.Vol. I, No. 2, Winter 2008/2009, pp. 83-94. The paper confronts the concept of Neo-Weberian state (based on the public administration school of thought) by the…
Does the Lisbon Strategy Matter? The Czech Experience
Reforms in Lisbon Strategy Implementation: Economic and Social Dimensions V. Samardžija (editor) Zagreb, IMO and FES 2006 Proceedings of the international conference. The paper analyzes the role of the Lisbon Strategy in the preparation of the Czech Republic to enter the European Union – and within first two years of the country’s full EU membership….
Czech Republic: Tradition compatible with modernisation?
The Europeanisation of Social Protection J. Saari (editor) Helsinky, University Printing House 2006 As is the case with other national models, the Czech social policy model is an outcome of historical legacies, decisions made in different times by various actors, filtered by street-level implementation capacities and mirrored by public reflections of its operations and effects….
Public Policy: Bridge over Troubled Water?
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The Capacities to Govern in Central and Eastern Europe
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