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Agencies in Croatia: Something Old or Something New?

Agencification has been one of the main administrative developments in the last decades. In post-socialist transitional countries, agencies were introduced into a different institutional landscape ; the growth in the number of agencies coincides with the process of the EU accession. The paper explores the basic features of the agency model in Croatia as well as the interconnectedness between the processes of agencification and Europeanization of public administration. Agencies in Croatia were created along with the advancement of EU membership, without the development of appropriate instruments of autonomy and control. The opportunity for deeper institutional change and the development of a genuine agency model has opened recently, with the economic crisis, with agencies being perceived as one of the main generators of blurred accountability and ineffectiveness. The socialization of agency members in the EU institutional context might lead to a new approach to agency model.

agency ; Croatia ; Europeanization ; administrative reform ; autonomy ; control

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