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To Learn About Administration:Education of Public Servants in the 18th century
Ivana Horbec
; Institut za povijest, Zagreb
Sažetak
The paper reassesses the incentives, circumstances, and results of the development of methodology of public servants’ education in the 18th century. Basic stimuli for the development of administrative education were the affirmation of the monarch’s sovereignty during early modern ages and the expansion of administrative tasks of institutionalised government, which resulted in significant specialisation and professionalisation of public administration. In the process, public administration had become a realm of specialised professionals, while the development of state became unthinkable without the formation of professional public servants as the exponents of state affairs. Along with the need of public administration for legal, financial, and technical knowledge, there appeared a growing concern of individual monarchs for the transfer of such knowledge. Simultaneously, the possibility of concrete application of the knowledge resulted in a rapid development
of disciplines dealing with public administration, its organisation, and
functioning. The position of public servants, their competences and duties, and their relationship towards the monarch, local social classes and the public became frequent themes of debate in royal courts of that time. An important aspect of those debates was the provision of new educational opportunities for public servants. Developing state administration required a new type of public servant, not just a lawyer with theoretical knowledge and experience acquired by traditional
knowledge transfer. The new desirable characteristics of public servants
were professionalism, impartiality, legal orientation, and loyalty. In the course of the 18th century, the state entirely took over the burden of public servants’ education. Simultaneously, its utilitarian approach stimulated the development of sciences “useful” to the state administration and applicable in real life. One of the results of such development was the orientation of the then universities towards
such sciences and the establishment of a number of new higher education institutions primarily intended for the education of public servants, which were founded all over Europe under royal patronage since the beginning of the 18th century. The Habsburg Monarchy
Ključne riječi
the Kingdom of Croatia–Slavonia; the Habsburg Monarchy; 18th century; history of higher education; history of public administration; development of civil service and civil servant
Hrčak ID:
136032
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Datum izdavanja:
2.12.2009.
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