Izvorni znanstveni članak
https://doi.org/10.3935/zpfz.69.56.09
Ex Ante Evaluation of the County Administrative Offices Abolition
Iva Lopižić
orcid.org/0000-0002-1157-0602
; Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Romea Manojlović Toman
orcid.org/0000-0002-0292-0180
; Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
According to the new State Administration System Act, county administrative offices as first-instance state administration bodies will be abolished and their affairs will be delegated to counties as units of regional self-government. The goal of this paper is to conduct an ex-ante evaluation of this reform so as to determine whether its formal goals can be achieved. In order to conduct the evaluation, the expectations that relevant actors have of this reform are empirically examined. The relevant actors are divided into three groups. The first group comprises county administrative office heads, county administrative offices department chiefs, and heads of county self-government bodies. Their expectations were examined by an online survey. The second group includes political actors (members of the Parliament and county governors) whose expectations are presented through an analysis of the parliamentary debate in the course of passing the State Administration System Act, the analysis of proposals and comments on the Act and their media appearances. The third group includes the public whose expectations are presented through an analysis of the consultation process with the interested public and the publications by leading experts in public administration. Based on the empirical data collected, the conceptual and practical problems in the reform implementation are identified, with the authors concluding that this reform cannot achieve its formal goal. This data can serve as a basis for conducting ex post evaluations of the reform.
Ključne riječi
execution of central state affairs on the territory; county administrative offices; delegated scope of affairs; evaluation
Hrčak ID:
233810
URI
Datum izdavanja:
31.1.2020.
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