Original scientific paper
Governance and Administrative Education in South Eastern Europe: Genuine Development, Conditionality, and Hesitations
Ivan Koprić
orcid.org/0000-0002-9086-6937
; Chair of Administrative Science, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb,Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Several governance processes have been common to the
countries in South Eastern Europe. The development administrative
education emancipated from traditional legal
education is but one of these processes. The slow development
of quality administrative education is a result of
specific combination of public administrations’ demands
on one hand, and supply of universities with regard to administrative
education, on the other. Demands are not
consolidated because there is still strong politicisation of
public administrations. Old state universities are sclerotic,
while many small new universities offer rather low quality
education, mostly for the private, not for the public sector.The research shows that educational preparation in the region
tends to preserve the legalistic nature of the field, but
certain improvements are observable. In Croatia, there is
a constant development of the supply side, while the demand
side is a bit underdeveloped. Overall conclusion is
that there is an interconnection between the development
of governance and administrative education developments.
Keywords
Governance; South Eastern Europe (SEE); Croatia; administrative education; Europeanization; high education; public administration; legalism
Hrčak ID:
130636
URI
Publication date:
18.5.2013.
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