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In this article, the authors examined the patterns and effects of departmental oversight across 28 ministries in Estonia, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia in relation to transposition planning, legal review and monitoring of deadlines.Abstract:
The extent to which member states transpose EU directives in a timely fashion is often argued to be strongly associated with the general effectiveness of national bureaucracies. But what kind of institutional solutions ensure better performance? This paper examines the patterns and effects of departmental oversight across 28 ministries in Estonia, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia. In mapping the strength of oversight, it relies on around 90 structured interviews regarding the rules-in-use on transposition planning, legal review and monitoring of deadlines. The analysis of the impact of departmental oversight is based on an original dataset of over 300 directives with transposition deadlines between January 2005 and December 2008.read more
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Political and Functional Local Government Consolidation: The Challenges for Core Public Administration Values and Regional Reform
Suzanne Leland,Kurt Thurmaier +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the options for a theoretical model to guide regional collaboration by local governments that is both politically feasible and consistent with core public administration valu- tation.
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Scottish farmers' intentions to afforest land in the context of farm diversification.
Jonathan Hopkins,Lee-Ann Sutherland,Melf-Hinrich Ehlers,Melf-Hinrich Ehlers,Keith Matthews,Andrew Barnes,Luiza Toma +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a representative survey of Scottish farmers (survey year: 2013, respondents used in analysis: 1735) to compare farmers who intended to expand forestry in future and farmers with alternative combinations of intended and past behaviour in relation to forestry.
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World Society Theory and the Development of Irish Higher Education (1960-2010)
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the major changes which have occurred in Irish higher education over the last five decades using World Society theory as an analytical framework and found that these global changes, and the diffusion of particular policies and organisational forms, is a consequence of emerging global structures and an increasingly rationalised world culture that impacts on all nation-states and social domains such as higher education.
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New Institutions, Old Ideas: The Passing Moment of the European Social Model
TL;DR: Schmidt as mentioned in this paper examines the conceptual, institutional, and economic contexts that contributed to the decline of the European Social Model (ESM) and provides an important overview of debates that have informed the ESM and how it relates to European social democratic strategies.
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Multiple external influences and domestic change in the contested neighborhood: the case of food safety
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the challenges of meeting the stringent EU regulatory and administrative requirements in the SPS area in Eastern European Neighborhood Countries (NCs) under the Eastern Partnership.
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