Public Management as a University Discipline in New European Union Member States

What is it about?

Many market-type mechanisms were intro¬duced in the public administration reforms in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Therefore public administration higher education in CEE should prepare not only classical public administrators but also public managers to operate in this new environment. This paper summarizes our research results on three new Central European members. The focus is on the scale of public management (PM) programmes, on the proportion of PM courses in the curricula of accredited PM programmes and on the dominant teaching approaches.

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Why is it important?

Our findings indicate major gaps in PA education systems in selected countries and suggest an open- ended question: is there sufficient national capacity to improve in the short or medium term, or would international pressure be necessary, perhaps triggered by excessive quality differences in the Bologna system?

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