Agencification in Slovakia: the current situation and lessons learned

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Agencification in Slovakia: the current situation and lessons learned

Original language description

There is little information on agencification in Slovakia. Here we try to fill this gap by focusing on both national and the sub-national governments. Our main goal is to describe the character and scale of agencification in Slovakia. We also wish to test a specific hypothesis, derived from NPM policy convergence theory: that agencification in Slovakia lacks a systematic conceptual framework located in the local context. Our research has unearthed nine countrywide service delivery agencies, plus a largenumber of decentralized delivery agencies (e.g. public hospitals, universities, schools and public training institutions), and 25 central regulatory agencies. This is not an exhaustive list as there is no official data on agencies. We argue that Slovakagencification ? especially during the Dzurinda administrations ? was mainly determined by two factors: the EU accession process and the political orientation of the governing coalition. Agencification predicts that increased managerial f

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AH - Economics

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GAP403%2F10%2F1892" target="_blank" >GAP403/10/1892: Outsourcing optimalization in public sector</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2011

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Transylvanian Review of Administrative Science

ISSN

1842-2845

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Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

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Country of publishing house

RO - ROMANIA

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

140-159

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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