Original scientific paper
Europeanization of Public Administration in Eastern and Central Europe: The Challenge of Democracy and Good Governance
Attila Ágh
; Department of Political Science at the Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
Abstract
This paper deals with the Europeanization of public administration
and public policy in the context of participative
democracy and good governance. The main argument
is that without a strong participative democracy, neither
the efficiency nor the political legitimacy can develop
properly in Central and East European (CEE) new democracies.
This theoretical paper analyses the stages of
development of the modern states in a comparative way
as the polity, politics and policy stages. It points out that
while CEE states are still only coping with the difficulties
of the second stage, the most advanced member states are
already in the third stage. Since the new democracies haveto be evaluated against the background of these latest EU
requirements in the period of global crisis, the f conclusion
is that they have to catch up not only in the economic field
but also in the respect to their public administration and
public policy systems.
Keywords
Central and East Europe; public administration; public policy; democratization; Europeanization
Hrčak ID:
130546
URI
Publication date:
15.9.2013.
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