Since the early 1990s, there have been a number of incomplete efforts made by the Russian government to modernize state bureaucracy. The first wave started during the early years of Perestroika and it coincided with the collapse of the Communist system. In 1997-2001, bureaucratic reform agenda has become one of the key priorities of the Russian government again. In 2001, Federal powers launched a set of comprehensive policy measures aiming to modernize the system of bureaucratic organization. However, research to date has paid insufficient attention to the model of public bureaucracy that the Russian policy-makers were trying to build. Furthermore, little attention has been attributed to the relationship between the stages of policy formulation and policy implementation, and accordingly, to the idea of measuring and evaluating civil service reform progress. This paper uses the insights of policy implementation research to evaluate the dynamic of civil service reform (CSR) in Russia. Based on the study of government and legislative documents, I observe that despite major efforts taken by the group of reform advocates to establish clear and coherent regulations in the area of CSR, the goal of comprehensive bureaucratic modernization has not been met. Data acquired in expert interviews with research community specialists, State Duma representatives, former city councilors and law makers, demonstrates that the outcomes of CSR implementation in Russia have resulted from the lack of coordination among various reform dimensions, which involved the difficulty of maintaining consensus around policy goals and the lack of regulatory coherence in the area of bureaucratic modernization process
{"title":"Making Sense of Russian Civil Service Reform: What Matters in Explaining Policy Implementation Process?","authors":"Svetlana Inkina","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3106585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3106585","url":null,"abstract":"Since the early 1990s, there have been a number of incomplete efforts made by the Russian government to modernize state bureaucracy. The first wave started during the early years of Perestroika and it coincided with the collapse of the Communist system. In 1997-2001, bureaucratic reform agenda has become one of the key priorities of the Russian government again. In 2001, Federal powers launched a set of comprehensive policy measures aiming to modernize the system of bureaucratic organization. However, research to date has paid insufficient attention to the model of public bureaucracy that the Russian policy-makers were trying to build. Furthermore, little attention has been attributed to the relationship between the stages of policy formulation and policy implementation, and accordingly, to the idea of measuring and evaluating civil service reform progress. This paper uses the insights of policy implementation research to evaluate the dynamic of civil service reform (CSR) in Russia. Based on the study of government and legislative documents, I observe that despite major efforts taken by the group of reform advocates to establish clear and coherent regulations in the area of CSR, the goal of comprehensive bureaucratic modernization has not been met. Data acquired in expert interviews with research community specialists, State Duma representatives, former city councilors and law makers, demonstrates that the outcomes of CSR implementation in Russia have resulted from the lack of coordination among various reform dimensions, which involved the difficulty of maintaining consensus around policy goals and the lack of regulatory coherence in the area of bureaucratic modernization process","PeriodicalId":389531,"journal":{"name":"International Administrative Law eJournal","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130070389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-09-12DOI: 10.4337/9781784718671.00054
Peter L. Lindseth
How shall we ‘come to terms’ with the complex reality of governance in the European Union? If we regard this challenge in strictly legal terms and, more importantly, give the pronouncements of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and sympathetic legal commentators the dispositive role in our determination, then the response is clear: The EU is a ‘constitutional’ level of governance in its own right, with the EU treaties serving as a ‘constitutional charter of a Community based on the rule of law’. There is another sense of ‘coming to terms’, however, that is less ECJ-centric. It looks beyond the nominal and legal and moves into the sociological and historical domains. It recognizes that ‘coming to terms’ must focus on the core disconnect at the heart of European integration, in which regulatory power has undoubtedly shifted to the supranational level but the EU lacks autonomous democratic and constitutional legitimacy to support the exercise of that power in its own right. The EU legal order clearly enjoys a legal, technocratic and functional legitimacy sufficient to support autonomous regulatory power of a uniquely powerful supranational type. The problem with the nominal constitutionalism of the ECJ and legal commentators, however, is that it proceeds ‘as if’ the EU possesses robust democratic and constitution legitimacy in its own right, in defiance of the EU’s actual socio-historical character. Two features of EU public law — nationally grounded resource mobilization and nationally mediated legitimacy — point strongly to the EU’s character as ultimately derivative, delegated, and ‘administrative’, operating as a regulatory ‘agent’ of democratic and constitutional ‘principals’ who remain largely national. These features of EU governance focus our attention on what we can call ‘the power-legitimacy nexus’; that is, the linkage between the nature of the legitimacy enjoyed by a legal or political order (legal, technocratic, functional, or robustly democratic and constitutional) and the scope of power that the legal order can then successfully exercise. Using a comparative administrative law perspective, this chapter argues that several judicial doctrines of the ECJ — relating to ‘legal basis’, ‘subsidiarity’ and ‘supremacy’, among others — should be reformed to bring them more fully into line with the EU’s actual socio-historical character as an instance of supranational administrative governance. Rather than indulging in an ‘as if’ constitutionalism as the ECJ has done, the public law of European integration should confront the EU as it actually is. In ‘coming to terms’ with *this* reality, we must do more than simply label it; rather, we must also understand how European law, both national and supranational, should evolve to accommodate its underlying socio-historical disconnect and the contradictions it raises.
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Debarment and suspension of erring contractors are important tools for ensuring compliance with integrity-obligations of government contractors performing procurement actions for the Government. These actions are commonly referred to under Indian government regulations as “banning of business dealings”, “sending contractors on a holiday” and “suspension of business dealings”; and executive guidance and case law in India on the subject typically originates from a wide and rich variety of sources. This paper attempts perhaps the most comprehensive and in-depth survey of available regulatory literature and case law on the subject in India, right from the 1970s to as recently as 2015; while suggesting a way forward for procurement reform through early harmonization and consolidation of guidance, particularly in context of ongoing developments under state government regulations as well as those expected under the newly proposed Public Procurement Bill, 2012 of the Central Government in India.
{"title":"Debarment and Suspension in Public Procurement: A Survey of Important Executive Guidance and Case Law from India","authors":"Sandeep Verma","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2185219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2185219","url":null,"abstract":"Debarment and suspension of erring contractors are important tools for ensuring compliance with integrity-obligations of government contractors performing procurement actions for the Government. These actions are commonly referred to under Indian government regulations as “banning of business dealings”, “sending contractors on a holiday” and “suspension of business dealings”; and executive guidance and case law in India on the subject typically originates from a wide and rich variety of sources. This paper attempts perhaps the most comprehensive and in-depth survey of available regulatory literature and case law on the subject in India, right from the 1970s to as recently as 2015; while suggesting a way forward for procurement reform through early harmonization and consolidation of guidance, particularly in context of ongoing developments under state government regulations as well as those expected under the newly proposed Public Procurement Bill, 2012 of the Central Government in India.","PeriodicalId":389531,"journal":{"name":"International Administrative Law eJournal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131182014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The European responses to the financial and public debt crisis have triggered a process of administrative reorganization and growth within two fundamental sectors of the EU, the internal market of financial services and the EMU. This paper argues that the process of reorganization and growth of the EU administrative machinery within the single financial market and the EMU is characterized by a number of inherent tensions. Four of them are prominent and refer, respectively, to the powers conferred to the satellite administrative bodies established in order to tackle the crisis, to the jurisdictions of the new administrations, to the degree of centralization which is sought within the new mechanisms for the implementation of EU laws and policies, to the accountability mechanisms. When assessed in the light of their capability to improve the EU administrative capacities, such tensions appear to be deeply ambivalent. On the one hand, they might operate as "fault lines" of the whole EU administrative machinery, destabilizing its functioning in two important fields of EU action. On the other hand, by pointing to a host of unsolved issues in EU administrative law, they provide an opportunity for opening a genuine institutional and scientific discussion on the ways in which the EU administrative system should be adjusted or reformed.
{"title":"In the Aftermath of the Crisis: The EU Administrative System between Impediments and Momentum","authors":"E. Chiti","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2610660","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2610660","url":null,"abstract":"The European responses to the financial and public debt crisis have triggered a process of administrative reorganization and growth within two fundamental sectors of the EU, the internal market of financial services and the EMU. This paper argues that the process of reorganization and growth of the EU administrative machinery within the single financial market and the EMU is characterized by a number of inherent tensions. Four of them are prominent and refer, respectively, to the powers conferred to the satellite administrative bodies established in order to tackle the crisis, to the jurisdictions of the new administrations, to the degree of centralization which is sought within the new mechanisms for the implementation of EU laws and policies, to the accountability mechanisms. When assessed in the light of their capability to improve the EU administrative capacities, such tensions appear to be deeply ambivalent. On the one hand, they might operate as \"fault lines\" of the whole EU administrative machinery, destabilizing its functioning in two important fields of EU action. On the other hand, by pointing to a host of unsolved issues in EU administrative law, they provide an opportunity for opening a genuine institutional and scientific discussion on the ways in which the EU administrative system should be adjusted or reformed.","PeriodicalId":389531,"journal":{"name":"International Administrative Law eJournal","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129955815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Private forms are gaining importance in the regulation of supply chains. Drawing on insights on the diminishing effectiveness of classical top-down regulation in inter-, supra-, and transnational supply chains, methods from self- and co-regulation increasingly take central stage. This new field comprises of standard setting, auditing, accreditation and enforcement. This chapter devotes an introduction and analysis of this emerging field of regulation and its relationship to law. It identifies the main regulatory character as market access and market closure challenge. It will show how law has responded to this challenge so far and will close with a summary and anticipation of some legal questions that remain open.
{"title":"Mapping Private Regulation – Classification, Market Access and Market Closure Policy, and Law's Response","authors":"K. Purnhagen","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2476876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2476876","url":null,"abstract":"Private forms are gaining importance in the regulation of supply chains. Drawing on insights on the diminishing effectiveness of classical top-down regulation in inter-, supra-, and transnational supply chains, methods from self- and co-regulation increasingly take central stage. This new field comprises of standard setting, auditing, accreditation and enforcement. This chapter devotes an introduction and analysis of this emerging field of regulation and its relationship to law. It identifies the main regulatory character as market access and market closure challenge. It will show how law has responded to this challenge so far and will close with a summary and anticipation of some legal questions that remain open.","PeriodicalId":389531,"journal":{"name":"International Administrative Law eJournal","volume":"123 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127058681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Russian Abstract: Исследованы проблемные вопросы определения понятия, классификации, основных принципов построения и функционирования системы государственной службы по законодательству Российской Федерации, в контексте государственного и муниципального управления. English Abstract: This paper analyzes problem questions of definition of concept, classification, the basic principles of construction and functioning of system of public service by the legislation of the Russian Federation, in a context of the public and municipal administration.
{"title":"О�?новы Правового Обе�?печени�? Го�?удар�?твенной Службы в Ро�?�?ий�?кой Федерации (Legal Provision Public Service in the Russian Federation)","authors":"Teymur E. Zul'fugarzade","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2433000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2433000","url":null,"abstract":"Russian Abstract: Исследованы проблемные вопросы определения понятия, классификации, основных принципов построения и функционирования системы государственной службы по законодательству Российской Федерации, в контексте государственного и муниципального управления. English Abstract: This paper analyzes problem questions of definition of concept, classification, the basic principles of construction and functioning of system of public service by the legislation of the Russian Federation, in a context of the public and municipal administration.","PeriodicalId":389531,"journal":{"name":"International Administrative Law eJournal","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123113942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this paper we analyze public administration efficiency in resource economies. After a conceptual discussion, we decided to include a wider scope of public administration and to create a new measurement of public administration efficiency called Index of Public Administration Efficiency (IPAE). We calculated efficiency scores and rankings based on this index. The research finds and analyzes the outcomes of these scores. Regression analysis shows that economic freedom significantly influences efficiency, and efficiency influences real GDP per capita (PPP) and human development, but more government spending does not increase public administration efficiency.
{"title":"Public Administration Efficiency in Resource Economies","authors":"N. Kjurchiski","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2440725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2440725","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we analyze public administration efficiency in resource economies. After a conceptual discussion, we decided to include a wider scope of public administration and to create a new measurement of public administration efficiency called Index of Public Administration Efficiency (IPAE). We calculated efficiency scores and rankings based on this index. The research finds and analyzes the outcomes of these scores. Regression analysis shows that economic freedom significantly influences efficiency, and efficiency influences real GDP per capita (PPP) and human development, but more government spending does not increase public administration efficiency.","PeriodicalId":389531,"journal":{"name":"International Administrative Law eJournal","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132775174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Russian Abstract: Статья посвящена изучению результатов и особенностей реализации административной реформы в современной России. Эффективность функционирования государственного аппарата в нашей стране, к сожалению, до сих пор является достаточно низкой, несмотря на неоднократные попытки его реформирования в постсоветский период. Очевидно, что от успеха модернизации бюрократической машины зависят перспективы развития России, конкретные результаты исполнения политических решений в сфере внутренней и внешней политики.English Abstract: Article is devoted studying of results and features of realization of administrative reform in modern Russia. Effective functioning of the state apparatus in our country, unfortunately, is still quite low, despite repeated attempts to reform the Soviet era. Obviously, the success of the modernization of the bureaucratic machine dependent development prospects of Russia, the execution results of political decisions in the field of domestic and foreign policy.
{"title":"�?дмини�?тративна�? Реформа в Современной Ро�?�?ии: �?нализ О�?новных Этапов и Оценка Реализации (Administrative Reform in Modern Russia: The Analysis of the Basic Stages and a Realization Estimation)","authors":"Oleg Vladimirovich Ageyev","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2420740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2420740","url":null,"abstract":"Russian Abstract: Статья посвящена изучению результатов и особенностей реализации административной реформы в современной России. Эффективность функционирования государственного аппарата в нашей стране, к сожалению, до сих пор является достаточно низкой, несмотря на неоднократные попытки его реформирования в постсоветский период. Очевидно, что от успеха модернизации бюрократической машины зависят перспективы развития России, конкретные результаты исполнения политических решений в сфере внутренней и внешней политики.English Abstract: Article is devoted studying of results and features of realization of administrative reform in modern Russia. Effective functioning of the state apparatus in our country, unfortunately, is still quite low, despite repeated attempts to reform the Soviet era. Obviously, the success of the modernization of the bureaucratic machine dependent development prospects of Russia, the execution results of political decisions in the field of domestic and foreign policy.","PeriodicalId":389531,"journal":{"name":"International Administrative Law eJournal","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129280079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Over the last decade, some fifty countries around the world have adopted Freedom of Information Acts (FOIAs), which allow citizens to force the release of information from public offices. Here, we are interested in analyzing the determinants for adopting FOIAs. We apply a set of survival analysis techniques to identify the cultural, political and economic determinants that lead countries to adopt a FOIA. We further distinguish the adoption of constitutionally entrenched information rights from weaker forms of self-commitment to government transparency. We find that there are marked differences in the variables explaining the existence of FOIAs and their inclusion in the constitution.
在过去十年中，全世界约有50个国家通过了《信息自由法》(Freedom of Information act, FOIAs)，允许公民强迫公共机构公布信息。在这里，我们感兴趣的是分析采用《信息自由法》的决定因素。我们运用一套生存分析技术来确定导致各国采用《信息自由法》的文化、政治和经济决定因素。我们进一步区分采用宪法规定的信息权利与较弱形式的对政府透明度的自我承诺。我们发现，在解释信息自由法的存在及其被纳入宪法的变量上存在显著差异。
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Non-communicable diseases account for nearly 86percent of deaths and 77percent of the disease burden in Europe. In light of these worrying trends, the European Union has started to develop a range of policies intended to encourage healthier lifestyles, and in particular to reduce smoking, to combat the harmful use of alcohol and to promote healthier diets and physical activity. This article attempts to systematize the common themes emerging between these policies and place lifestyle risk regulation more firmly on the EU agenda. It demonstrates that, besides the inherent complexity of this emerging field of EU studies, which requires a coordinated multi-sectoral response, the very nature of the EU itself gives rise to additional issues around roles, obligations and rights. We conclude that the EU should reflect more systematically upon the coherence, the effectiveness and the limits of its embryonic lifestyle risk policy, and that it should do so in light of the Global Action Plan on the Control and Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases for 2013-2020, unanimously adopted in May at the last World Health Assembly.
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