Public administration education in the CEE countries: How it has developed during the recent decades?

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/nispa-2019-0020" target="_blank" >10.2478/nispa-2019-0020</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Public administration education in the CEE countries: How it has developed during the recent decades?

Original language description

This paper presents findings on the developments of PA education in 11 CEE countries and discusses various patterns based on the data on historical background of PA education, forming thus the initial outcome of a more complex research carried out within the PAQUALITY project. The analysis is based around two main contextual factors: the role of imprinting (path-dependence) of the PA education in the framework of history and evolved PA ideologies, and the development of PA as discipline; and the role of institutional and HE legal factors on the current existence and status of PA education in the selected cluster of countries. The research question relates to the potential observation of differences in the development and current status of PA education in 11 CEE countries today. For this purpose, we utilize co-variational international comparative case study methodological approach, since this is a variable-centered approach, as it is acknowledged that a full-fledged theory might be absent in the framework of this specific investigation. The results indicate that we can argue in favor of the role of path-dependence in shaping PA education in CEE countries, where different starting points affected the outcomes in the content of current PA education. However, it is not the path-dependence to be taken as a sole factor corresponding to the development of PA discipline in specific countries, as also more context-based factors and legal provisions do play the role. The outcome is that there is a lack of uniformity of PA education across CEE countries, where the country specific context is the major factor in shaping the structure and content of programs, in some instances even creating new “sciences”. Although it would be expected that we would have some convergence in PA programs after almost three decades after the political and economic transformations started, we can even argue that PA education is more diverse now. This would give a specific role on the internalization and/or international accreditation in re-shaping and reversing the divergence processes in the future, but the anticipation for program consolidation might also be the factor that could have converging effects.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50901 - Other social sciences

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy : the Network of Institutes and Schools of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe

ISSN

1337-9038

e-ISSN

1338-4309

Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

217-232

UT code for WoS article

000502563300009

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85077129885