Public Administration Education in CEE Countries: Institutionalization of a Discipline

Policy and Society, December 2016, Forthcoming

29 Pages Posted: 8 Feb 2017

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Katarina Staronova

Comenius University; affiliation not provided to SSRN

Gyorgy Gajduschek

Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) - Centre for Social Sciences

Date Written: December 8, 2016

Abstract

The array of public affairs programs has been growing in the past 27 years in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Traditionally, public administration programs concentrated primarily on legal and formal institutional aspects of governing, whereas public policy and management programs were entirely absent and remain relatively new. This article discusses the contents of the MPA/MPP programs in five CEE countries (the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia) in order to identify major features in terms of the disciplinary and methodological character of these programs. Our ultimate question is to assess whether these programs reveal a clear, relatively robust public administration “identity,” and whether there is a convergence among programs in the region toward the so-called mainstream programs in the world.

Keywords: public administration education, public management education, public policy education, curricula, Central and Eastern Europe countries

JEL Classification: H8, I2, K23

Suggested Citation

Staronova, Katarina and Staronova, Katarina and Gajduschek, Gyorgy, Public Administration Education in CEE Countries: Institutionalization of a Discipline (December 8, 2016). Policy and Society, December 2016, Forthcoming , Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2913516

Katarina Staronova (Contact Author)

Comenius University ( email )

SK-84215 Bratislava
Slovakia

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Gyorgy Gajduschek

Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) - Centre for Social Sciences ( email )

Országház u. 30.
Budapest, H-1014
Hungary

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