25 Years of Public Administration Developments and Reforms in V4 region.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 25 years of public administration in the Czech Republic -- Introduction -- 1. Development of Public Administration in the Czech Republic to 1989 -- 1.1 Chronological development of public administration to 1989 -- 1.2 Key findings from this period -- 2. Development of Public Administration since 1989 -- 2.1 Development in the period of 1989 - 2003 -- 2.1.1 Procedures and steps of reform in this period -- 2.1.2 Key findings from this period -- 2.2 Development of public administration since 2003 -- 2.2.1 Procedures and steps of reform in this period -- 2.2.2 Key findings from this period -- 3. Critical assessment of implemented reforms -- 4. Best practices and recommendations for implementation in the V4 countries -- Conclusion -- References -- Hungary's central state administration 1990-2014 -- Introduction -- 1. The theoretical context, the questions and the method of the research -- 1.1 Scholarly accounts of public administration reforms in Central and Eastern Europe -- 1.2 Research questions and method -- 2. Democratic transition and consolidation (1989-1998) -- 2.1 The context and the key determinants of reforms -- 2.2 Structural changes -- 2.3 Operations and work processes -- 2.4 The civil service system -- 3. Presidentialism and governmental capacity building (1998-2010) -- 3.1 The context and the key determinants of reforms -- 3.2 Structural changes -- 3.3 Operations and work processes -- 3.4 The civil service system -- 4. Illiberal democracy and "Orbanization" (2010-2014) -- 4.1 The context and the key determinans of reforms -- 4.2 Structural changes -- 4.3 Operations and work processes -- 4.4 The civil service system -- Conclusions: Hungarian reform patterns -- References -- Public administration reforms in Poland -- Introduction -- 1. Public administration before 1989.

2. Public Administration after 1989 -- 2.1 Structural efforts and unsatisfactory results -- 2.2 Critical assessment of Implemented Reforms -- 2.3 The problem of the politicization -- 2.4 Etatist model of public governance -- 2.5 The role of human capital -- 2.6 The role of analytical skills -- 2.7 Organizational culture -- 3. Best practices and recommendations for implementation in other V4 countries -- References -- Developments and Reforms in Public Administration in Slovak Republic (Critical assessment of selected implemented NPM tools) -- Short introduction -- 1. Description of public administration prior transition in 1989 -- 1.1 Historical development of territorial and administrative arrangement in the territory of the Slovak Republic until the foundation of the Kingdom of Hungary -- 1.2 Territorial and administrative arrangement until 1918 -- 1.3 Territorial arrangement of Slovakia from the foundation of the Czechoslovak Republic to 1945 -- 1.4 Public administration in Slovakia after the WW II -- 2. Development of the public administration system after transition -- 2.1. Development of the public administration system and territorial division of Slovakia after 1990 -- 2.2. Changes in the territorial and administrative arrangement of Slovakia after 1996 -- 2.3 Public administration reforms in the Slovak Republic since 2004 -- 2.4 Changes in the public administration system of the Slovak Republic after 2013 -- 2.4.1 Electronic public administration -- 3. Critical assessment of implemented reforms in Slovakia -- 3.1 Case 1 Public service delivery at the local self-government level -- 3.1.1 The scale of contracting-out -- 3.1.2 The efficiency impacts of contracting local public services -- 3.1.3 The way/system of deciding the contracting-out and selecting the supplier -- 3.1.4 The quality of contract management.

3.2 Case 2 Co-creation - citizens participation -- 3.2.1 The role of main actors in co-creative innovations -- 4. Problems solutions and recommendations for implementation in other V4 countries -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES (part 3, 4) -- References (part 1, 2) -- Public administration reforms in Visegrad countries: "two steps forward - one step back" processes (?) -- 1. Public administration reforms in Visegrad countries after 1989: generaloverview -- 1.1 Czech Republic -- 1.2 Hungary -- 1.3 Poland -- 1.4 Slovakia -- 2. Public administration reforms in Visegrad countries: "sectoral issues" -- 2.1 Civil service reforms -- 2.2 Agencification -- 2.3 External actors and pressures -- 2.4 Politicization: zigzag reforms and reforms for reforms as one of its results -- 2.5 Self-government -- 2.6 Administrative services and service delivery -- 3. Public administration reforms in Visegrad countries: current challenges and possible responses -- References.

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