ADMINISTRATIVE CONVERGENCE AND REFORMS IN SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPEAN STATES - Analyses, models and comparative studies, vol 2

Edited by Ani Matei () and Panagiotis Grigoriou ()

in ASsee Online Series from South-Eastern European Administrative Studies – ASsee Online Series, currently edited by Ani Matei

Abstract: The fundamental idea of the current publication emphasizes the characteristics of the processes related to administrative convergence and reform in the South-Eastern European states. Of course the area under review is quite wide and complex and therefore our approach aims to comprise only a few characteristics. Encompassing various geo-political aspects, political heritages enhancing that diversity as well as endemic socio-cultural traditions, the public administrations in the South-Eastern European states have faced a definite option for restoring democracy and accomplishing reforms according to the principles and values of the European Administrative Space, in the past two decades. For the time being other questions emerge and others remain still open. Which is the most adequate model for the administrative reform, which are the most efficient mechanisms and tools triggering its accomplishment and implementation? Lacking a formalized acquis communautaire on the processes related to administrative reform, their diversity has enhanced and the conditions for so called administrative convergence have multiplied. The research reports achieved and presented in the current publication emphasise the progress in implementing the democratic processes of central and local governance which do not lead however to convergence, being definitely relevant for the processes related to administrative dynamics. Various political experiences undergone by the states under review in the second half of the 20th century have induced attitudes and behaviours mainly of subordination and loss of identity of the organizations in national public administrations. That situation persisting in the South-Eastern European space creates difficulties and unbalances in the dialogue and cooperation with the public administrations of Western European states. The state itself is weak, determining a lack of finality for the administrative reforms. The processes of administrative convergence have become more complex and complicate as the EU administration is searching a model and it is attempting to define an identity. The traditional models of administration, based on a hierarchic bureaucracy are overcome and the model of EU administration could not be found by a transfer or enlargement of an administrative model belonging to one or several states. Therefore, we should acknowledge that the processes related to administrative convergence and reform are profoundly integrated in a complex context, with globalizing valences, benefiting of profound mechanisms, enhancing the interdependence and systemic character of the developments of national public administrations. The current volume incorporates contributions of South-Eastern European universities (National School of Political Studies and Public Administration – Romania, New Bulgarian University – Bulgaria, University of the Aegean - Greece or University of Rijeka – Croatia, as well as of international organizations – European Public Law Organization – Greece. In the above briefly described context, the studies reveal both comparative aspects, strategies of administrative reform or significant developments of administrative convergence and conceptual models aimed to contribute to the debates on EU administrative and organizational future or contemporary developments of EU administrative law. The reports were achieved in the framework of Jean Monnet project “South-Eastern European developments on the administrative convergence and enlargement of the European Administrative Space in Balkan states“ and provide an overview close to the realities on specificity of administrative processes in South-Eastern European states.

Keywords: administrative convergence; balkans; public administration reforms; european administrative studies; South-Eastern European States (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
ISBN: 978-973-709-535-0
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 General Framework of Administrative Convergence Provided by the Reforms of National Public Administrations in South Eastern European States , pp 7-54

Ani Matei, Lucica Matei, Oana Stoian and Tatiana Dogaru

Ch 2 Comparative Studies on the Administrative Convergence Revealed by National Strategies of Administrative Reform in Some South-Eastern European States , pp 54-96

Ani Matei, Lucica Matei, Oana Stoian and Diana Catalina Zanoschi

Ch 3 The Federal Structure: A Challenge for the European Union Administrative and Organizational Future , pp 96-112

Panagiotis Grigoriou

Ch 4 Reforms of Bulgarian public administration , pp 112-141

Margarita Shivergueva

Ch 5 General framework of administrative convergence provided by Croatian public administrative reforms , pp 142-188

Davor Vasieek, Sasa Drezgiae, Ivana Maletiae, Lidija Pernar, Zeljka Tropina Godea and Davor Mance

Ch 6 Global and EU Administrative Law and Justice. Contemporary Trends and lessons to be learned , pp 189-201

Spyridon Flogaitis and Andreas Pottakis

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