SCHERPEREEL, John A <br/><br/>
Renewing the socialist past or moving toward the european administrative space? 

 - Thousand Oaks :  SAGE,  November 2004 
<br/><br/> Do east-central European bureaucrats more resemble their socialist-era predecessors or their member-state counterparts? Are socialist patterns persisting, or are we witnessing isomorphism toward a European Administrative Space (EAS)? or both? I examine these questions through the Czech and Slovak cases. I begin by contrasting two ideal types: state-socialist administrative space and EAS. I present evidence from a survey of 296 Czech and Slovak managers and argue that Czech and Slovak administrations occupy interstices between state-socialist and European ideals. Although there is some evidence of convergence, Czech and Slovak administrations operate in spaces considerably distante from the EAS 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Socialismo<br/>Reforma Administrativa<br/>Área de Livre Comércio