Governing After Communism: Institutions and PolicymakingThis timely comparative analysis explores the evolution of governance in Central and Eastern Europe. The book considers post-communist leaders' key challenge: the development of central government institutions capable of coordinating, integrating, and steering the policymaking process. Building on a broad range of primary sources and extensive field research, the distinguished authors analyze the processes and outcomes of institution-building in Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Bulgaria since the late 1980s. They examine in detail the organization and inner workings of central executives; explain differences in executive trajectories across time and countries by considering the influence of institutional legacies, the impact of evolving party systems, and the role of crises in spurring institutional change; and show the effects of executive institutions on patterns of public policy, especially the budgetary process. Through a rigorous application of the core-executive framework, this study offers nuanced conceptual and analytical insights that will enhance understanding of both the evolving institutions of Central and Eastern Europe and the more stable West European systems. The in-depth analysis of the development of national executive institutions casts a distinctive new light on debates about EU enlargement, Europeanization, and patterns of governance. |
Contents
A Framework of Analysis | 27 |
A Core Supreme | 49 |
A Core Ascendant? | 83 |
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Governing After Communism: Institutions and Policymaking Vesselin Dimitrov,Klaus H. Goetz,Hellmut Wollmann No preview available - 2006 |
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administrative state secretaries advisors agenda Antall government appointed budget budgetary Bulgaria cabinet committees cabinet government center of government centralized prime ministerial chancellery civil servants civil service coalition government Communist Party constitution core executive council of ministers CSSD Czech Republic decentralized decision democratic Department deputy prime ministers deputy state secretaries Dimitrov Directorate dominance draft Economic elections ernment established Europe executive institutions FIDESZ-MPP finance minister fiscal deficit FKGP Foreign Affairs formal functions Goetz Government Office Hagen Hallerberg Hanna Suchocka head Horn government Hungarian Hungary implementation internal interview Ivan Kostov Klaus Kostov legislation Leszek Miller line ministries ment Ministry of Finance MSZP Orbán government organization parliament parliamentary party system percent personnel Poland Polish political coordination political parties political state secretary position postcommunist powers president Prime Minister's Office public administration reform role Secretariat structures SZDSZ tion transition type of government Vaclav Klaus vote
References to this book
A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Change Robert Bideleux,Ian Jeffries No preview available - 2007 |
Developments in Central and East European Politics 4 Stephen White,Judy Batt,Paul G. Lewis Limited preview - 2007 |