ADMINISTRATIVE LAW SECTION
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REFORM
We meet today within the section of administrative law at this, we can say, central European forum, to share our experience and views about some important, inspiring and problematic matters regarding the reform of public administration.
Reforms of public administrations have become an inseparable part of functioning of modern public administration systems because the requirements for quality of public administration have been set high, especially after the basic political and economical changes which appeared at the end of 1980s and the beginning of the 90s and which are still being specified and amended.
Reformatory tasks are perpetual goal for the theory and practice of public administration and at the same time a challenge with space for development.
Both the scope and the depths of the notified conference papers indicate that the topic of public administration reform is understood as complex and longstanding. It becomes strikingly evident in municipal administration, nevertheless it pervades the whole public administration and not only in the organizational and structural level, but also very fundamentally in the ambit of quality demands placed on the activities of public administration, including the link with judicial control of public administration. These areas and contingencies are targeted by some of today’s conference papers.
Another characteristic feature of our professional argument can be, even though not necessarily, sharing mutual experience and comparing development of public administration systems, especially those , which used to be united (Czech and Slovak), but has been now going own ways for over a decade.
The upcoming conference can then offer a further space for the exchange of experience and knowledge acquired on the avenue to reach the standards - principles of “good administration”, which is being described and approximated by the scholars and practitioners of public administration and administrative law.
I wish our discussions success and to all of us I wish a lot of encouragement and inspiration for future work.
Soňa Skulová