Public administration reform and regional development in the Czech Republic after twenty years of corrections

Abstract

This paper focuses on public administration reform in the Czech Republic in terms of supporting regional development. The whole system was legislated two decades ago, in 2000. The paper focuses on three issues: (1) territorial public administration and its corrections, (2) institutionalisation of regional development support, and (3) cohesion regions and changes in their institutional set-up. Territorial public administration and regional development in the Czech Republic are closely related to the so-called combined model of public administration, in which the tasks of state administration are taken over at the regional and local level by self-government bodies, which perform them in a delegated capacity. The paper asks to what extent the combined model has been successful in the Czech Republic for over two decades.