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Economics of Public Administration

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 153-0393/01
Abbreviation EVSP
Course title Economics of Public Administration
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Public Economics
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Iveta Vrabková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Public administration as a branch of national economy, relationship between public administration and the public sector, systemic conception of public administration, public service.
2. Reforms of public administration, types of reforms, modernization of public administration, new concepts of management of public administration and public services (e.g New Public Management, New Public Service), tools of public administration management.
3. eGovernment, classification of services and e-Government projects, e-Governance, e-Governance models, e-participation index, e-government development index.
4. Evaluation of public administration, indicators of evaluation of public administration, good governance and approaches to evaluation, aggregate index of quality of administration, aggregated indices.
5. Efficiency of public administration, types of effectiveness, efficiency as the target of reforms, measurement of effectiveness, methods of efficiency evaluation, international comparison of governance effectiveness.
6. Economic aspects of public administration, material and technical support, costs of public administration, EU resources, expenditures of the public administration sector according to the ESA methodology, COFOG expenses.
7. Human resources management in public administration, human resource management, costs on human resources, system of public service.
8. Decentralisation of public administration, types of decentralisation, approaches to the evaluation and measurement of decentralization, role of fiscal decentralisation, decentralisation of public services.
9. The role of public administration in the provision and financing of public services, models of public service delivery, economic value and public service evaluation methods.
10. Control in public administration and control of public administration, financing and economy of control institutions in the Czech Republic.
11. European control system, control by EU institutions and their economics, control of Intosai and Eurosai controls.
12. Audit in public administration, types of audits, implementation of audit in public administration institutions.
13. Corruption in public administration, types of corruption, indicators of evaluation and measurement of corruption, relation of corruption to expenditures of state administration and self-government and economic growth, ethics of public administration, anti-corruption tools.
14. European view of public administration, current issues and trends, comparative models of public administration, economy of public administration.

E-learning

Literature

BLAŽEK, J., A. KERLINOVÁ a E. TOMÁŠKOVÁ. Ekonomika veřejné správy. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2016. ISBN 978-80-210-8040-9.
BOUCKAERT, G., JANN, W. (Eds.) (2020). European Perspectives for Public Administration: The Way Forward. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 480p.
PAVLÍK, M., ŠIMKA, K., POSTRÁNECKÝ, J., POMAHAČ, R. a kol. (2020). Moderní veřejná správa. Zvyšování kvality veřejné správy, dobrá praxe a trendy. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 164s. ISBN 978-80-7598-048-9.

Advised literature

BARTLETT, W., KMEZIČ, S., DULIČ, K. (2018). Fiscal Decentralisation, Local Government and Policy Reversals in Southeastern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, 327p.
BENČO, Jozef, Helena KUVÍKOVÁ a kol. Ekonomika verejných služieb. Bánska Bystrica: Univerzita Mateja Bela, Ekonomická fakulta, 2011. 334 s. ISBN 978-80-557-0323-7.
KUHLMANN, Sabine and Hellmut WOLLMANN (2019). Introduction to Comparative Public Administration: Administrative Systems and Reforms in Europe. 2nd Edition. Cheltenham/ Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing, 431 p.
PROVAZNÍKOVÁ, Romana. Financování měst, obcí a regionů. Teorie a praxe. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2015. 288 s. ISBN 978-80-247-5608-0.
STAROŇOVÁ, K., L. STAŇOVÁ, E. SIČÁKOVÁ BEBLAVÁ. Systémy státní služby. Koncepty a trendy. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského, 2014. 268 s. ISBN 978-80-223-3783-0 .
STEJSKAL, Jan a kol. Teorie a praxe veřejných služeb. Praha: Wolters Kluwer ČR, 2017. 280 s. ISBN 978-80-7552-726-4.
STEJSKAL, J., MIKUŠOVÁ MERIČKOVÁ, B., OCHRANA, F. a kol. (2020). Rozhodování o věcech veřejných. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 234 s. ISBN 978-80-7598-829-4.
ŽÁRSKA, Elena a kol. Verejná správa.Bratislava: Ekonom, 2016. 356 s. ISBN 978-80-225-4228-9.