Transformational challenges in central and eastern europe and schools of public administration
By: NEWLAND, Chester A
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ArticlePublisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, jul./aug. 1996Public administration review : PAR 56, 4, p. 382-389Abstract: What impediments frustrate efforts to transform former soviet bloc european countries into a new nation-state system? How have schools of public administration there sought to deal with challenges in building state institutions? What lessons for development administration and the broader field may be development administration and the broader field may be learned from their experiences? Obstacles to changes include four from the past: border strategies and multiculturalism; control through "smokestack" design; workplace "social connectedness" and reciprocity; and collapse of the central political apparatus. Two sets of external factors confund problems: Western development arthodoxy and policies based on faulty political and economic theories. Western devaluation of government during this historic era has contributed to major problems in the redesign of states in Central and Eastern Europe. Contrasting approaches to public administration education have beeb adopted in efforts to serve the needs of changing state systems.
What impediments frustrate efforts to transform former soviet bloc european countries into a new nation-state system? How have schools of public administration there sought to deal with challenges in building state institutions? What lessons for development administration and the broader field may be development administration and the broader field may be learned from their experiences? Obstacles to changes include four from the past: border strategies and multiculturalism; control through "smokestack" design; workplace "social connectedness" and reciprocity; and collapse of the central political apparatus. Two sets of external factors confund problems: Western development arthodoxy and policies based on faulty political and economic theories. Western devaluation of government during this historic era has contributed to major problems in the redesign of states in Central and Eastern Europe. Contrasting approaches to public administration education have beeb adopted in efforts to serve the needs of changing state systems.
Public administration review PAR
July/August 1996 volume 56 numero 4
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