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Clientelism and Slovenian Public Administration Reform
Clientelism and Slovenian Public Administration Reform

Author(s): Lea Prijon
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Socjologiczne
Keywords: Slovenia; public administration; Bureaucracy; elite; post-communism reforms

Summary/Abstract: Since disintegration of former Yugoslavia, Slovenia applied series of reforms in all spheres of life, including public administration. The main reform was contracted on introduction of modern trends in public administration. The article discusses main reforms of Slovenian public administration and their efficiency to change the bureaucratic system into an effective modern one. However, the article aims to understand modern Slovenian public administration within the elitist approach, which seems to explain certain malfunctions of Slovenian public administration after these reforms.

  • Issue Year: 180/2012
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 545-560
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: English