 Policy Advisory Systems in Times of Crisis: A Case Study of Slovak Advisory Committees during Covid-19Hudec Róbert Martin
NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy, 2023, vol. 16, issue 1, 58-80 Abstract: This paper aims to fill a gap in the understanding of policy advisory systems (PAS) during the Covid‐19 crisis. As governments rely on PAS in uncertain times of crisis, the state of PAS directly impacts the quality of policymaking. This paper studies the changes within Slovak Advisory committees (AC) at the executive level concerning the changes of government during the Covid‐19 pandemic. Slovakia had relatively good results in the first wave of the pandemic but did not utilize any ofthat experience in the second wave, where deadly infection and death rates were higher. The case of Slovak ACs demonstrates a shift towards a more politicized PAS – the new committees, established by the prime minister, were meeting at the expense of already functioning committees at the beginning of the crisis, and their expertise was more political in character. Keywords: central and eastern Europe; Covid-19; crisis management; policy advice; policy advisory systems; politico-administrative relations (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:vrs:njopap:v:16:y:2023:i:1:p:58-80:n:6 Access Statistics for this article NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy is currently edited by Juraj Nemec More articles in NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy from Sciendo |
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