INVESTIGATING PUBLIC GOVERNANCE MODELS IN SLOVENIA AND JAPAN: A COMPARATIVE SURVEY ON STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Aleksander Aristovnik (), Hiroko Kudo (), Eva Murko (), Tadateru Sugawa () and Dejan Ravšelj ()
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Aleksander Aristovnik: Professor PhD., University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Public Administration, Gosarjeva ulica 5, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Hiroko Kudo: Professor PhD., Chuo University, Faculty of Law, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo City, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan
Eva Murko: Researcher, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Public Administration, Gosarjeva ulica 5, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tadateru Sugawa: Assistant Professor PhD., Mie University, Faculty of Humanities, Law and Economics, 1577 Kurimamachiya-cho, Tsu City, Mie Prefecture, Japan
Dejan Ravšelj: Assistant Professor PhD., University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Public Administration, Gosarjeva ulica 5, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

REVISTA ADMINISTRATIE SI MANAGEMENT PUBLIC, 2023, vol. 2023, issue 41, 6-25

Abstract: Public administration and governance must adapt to the changing socio-economic environment, improving quality, process efficiency, and collaboration. Hence, public administration and public governance models have been significantly modified multiple times, resulting in differences in public governance practices. This paper examines different public governance models’ principles in Slovene and Japanese public administration. It quantifies elements based on the models' principles and applies them to an empirical case using a survey of 55 Slovene and 135 Japanese public managers. The independent samples t-test examines the differences in characteristics of public governance practices between state administration and local government in Slovenia and Japan. The results show that state administration institutions in both countries are strongly characterised by the (Neo)Weberian model’s principles, while Slovenia's local government leans towards Digital-era governance (DEG) and good governance (GG) principles. Japan's state and local administrations show equal presence of New public management (NPM), DEG, and GG models. The study aims to bridge a research gap by providing new findings on how different public governance models can be found at various Slovene and Japanese public administration levels and offers insights for public managers and policymakers for future public administration reforms.

Keywords: public governance models; comparative analysis; Slovenia; Japan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D73 H83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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