Diversity and Convergence: A Quantitative Analysis of European Public Administration Education Programs

Hajnal, György

doi:10.1080/15236803.2003.12023597

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“…Hence, three countries with different styles and traditions were selected: the UK, representing the Anglo-Saxon system; Austria, a Continental European (Hammerschmid and Meyer, 2005;Meyer and Hammerschmid, 2010) or Germanic (Painter and Peters, 2010) state, and Italy, a member of the French (Loughlin and Peters, 1997), Napoleonic (Painter and Peters, 2010) or Southern European (Demmke and Moilanen, 2010;Hajnal, 2003;Torres, 2004) system. As mentioned above, the UK has been historically categorised as an early and high-intensity adopter of NPM-related reforms (present already in the 1980s), while Italy and Austria followed around a decade later (Hood, 1995;Pollitt and Bouckaert, 2011).…”

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The translation and sedimentation of accounting reforms. A comparison of the UK, Austrian and Italian experiences

Hyndman¹,

Liguori²,

Meyer

et al. 2014

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

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The translation and sedimentation of accounting reforms. A comparison of the UK, Austrian and Italian experiences AbstractSince the late 1980s, there has been a significant and progressive movement away from the traditional Public Administration (PA) systems, in favour of NPM-type accounting tools and ideas inspired by the private sector. More recently, a new focus on governance systems, under the banner Public Governance (PG), has emerged. In this paper it is argued that reforms are not isolated events, but are embedded in more global discourses of modernisation and influenced by the institutional pressures present in a certain field at certain points in time. Using extensive document analysis in three countries with different administrative regimes (the UK, Italy and Austria), we examine public sector accounting and budgeting reforms and the underlying discourses put forward in order to support the change. We investigate the extent to which the actual content of the reforms and the discourses they are embedded within are connected over time; that is, whether, and to what degree, the reform "talk" matches the "decisions". The research shows that in both the UK and in Italy there is consistency between the debates and the decided changes, although the dominant discourse in each country differs, while in Austria changes are decided gradually, and only after they have been announced well in advance in the political debate. We find that in all three countries the new ideas and concepts layer and sediment above the existing ones, rather than replace them. Although all three countries underwent similar accounting and budgeting reforms and relied on similar institutional discourses, each made its own specific translation of the ideas and concepts and is characterized by a specific formation of sedimentations. In addition, the findings suggest that, at present in the three countries, the PG discourse is used to supplement, rather than supplant, other prevailing discourses.

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Section: Empirical Design and Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The translation and sedimentation of accounting reforms. A comparison of the UK, Austrian and Italian experiences

Hyndman¹,

Liguori²,

Meyer

et al. 2014

Critical Perspectives on Accounting

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“…Unlike the EU-15, we see the public administrations of most of the newcomers -especially those with a background of transition from communism -as still in search of an orientation (Hajnal 2003;Ko¨nig 2002;Randma-Liiv and Connaughton 2005). It is still an open question as to whether the majority will move towards the Continental model (which due to historical reasons lies closest to most of the newcomers) or towards the Anglo-Scandinavian model.…”

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Bureaucratic change in the European administrative space: The case of the European commission

Balint¹,

Bauer²,

Knill³

2008

West European Politics

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“…On the other side, a brief literature survey points to the fact that the development of programs of policy analysis studies all over the world has been highly dependent on the governance context and its individual prevailing cultural background (Hanjal, 2003;Geva-May & Maslove, 2006Luger, 2005). Many of the differences among programs relate also to the characteristics of the participants in the policy programs.…”

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Public policy education goes global: A multi‐dimensional challenge

Fritzen

2007

J Policy Anal Manage

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In 1986, a small group of public policy faculty gathered at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, for a conference on what was then a novel enterprise in professional education for public service. The enterprise grew into the dozens of masters programs in policy analysis and management that now cover not only the United States but the globe, and on the 20th anniversary of that influential meeting, APPAM organized a conference at Park City, Utah, where a much larger group of faculty gathered to reflect backwards on how policy analysis education had evolved, and forwards on where it should be going.The Park City conference was organized around a set of commissioned papers, each providing a starting point and common ground for discussion sessions that were in turn recorded by rapporteurs. Rapporteurs were asked to write essays capturing the most important themes of their sessions, not to merely transcribe the conversation, and they did so admirably.The Curriculum and Case Notes section of JPAM will publish, over the next few issues, a selection of the papers and discussion reports, beginning here with a historic overview provided in the opening plenary address by John Ellwood, and a look at the newest development in policy education, namely, the growth of such programs outside the United States, from a group of authors in this international context. The latter paper is followed by Scott Fritzen's report on the discussion in that session. MICHAEL O'HARE, Richard & Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy University of California, Berkeley. David Reingold Editor Curriculum and Case Notes CHALLENGES TO PUBLIC POLICY AND PUBLIC MANAGEMENT EDUCATION John W. EllwoodThis paper has two main goals: to provide an overview of APPAM programs, especially master's programs; and to provide a series of hypotheses and challenges as starting points for the more in-depth discussions that will take place over the next few days. Over two decades ago, I assisted Don Stokes in a project that sought to explore innovations in graduate education for public service. One of my duties in that effort was to produce a description (or in Don Stokes' words, a morphology) of the field. In so doing, I was given access to the first round of the self-studies that were part of the National Association of Schools of Public Administration and Analysis (NASPAA) budding accreditation process. 1 The essay provides a fairly good baseline of what the world looked like in 1985 and as such should help any discussion of things that have changed and things that have remained fairly constant in our business.If I have a qualification for achieving the second goal, it is that I have spent the last decade and a half teaching in one of the "original" policy programs-the Goldman School of Public Policy at Berkeley. I believe that one of the assumptions that has driven this conference is that we have seen a convergence between the pure public policy program and the various schools and departments of public administration and/or affairs-with the public policy programs incor...

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Diversity and Convergence: A Quantitative Analysis of European Public Administration Education Programs

Cited by 67 publications

References 10 publications

The translation and sedimentation of accounting reforms. A comparison of the UK, Austrian and Italian experiences

The translation and sedimentation of accounting reforms. A comparison of the UK, Austrian and Italian experiences

Bureaucratic change in the European administrative space: The case of the European commission

Public policy education goes global: A multi‐dimensional challenge

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