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Governance and Administrative Education in South Eastern Europe

South Eastern Europe is a region that shares certain governance characteristics, because of common past arrangements, current process of Europe animation, and some cultural commonalities. The process of acquiring European administrative standards has been facilitated by the conditionality mechanism during the ac cession to the European Union. The development of modern administrative education, emancipated from traditional legal education, is a component of recent governance processes, but it is rather hesitant. The slow development is a result of public administrations' demands on one hand, and supply of universities with regard to administrative education on the other. Demands are not consolidated because there is still strong politicisation of public administrations. Old state universities are sclerotic, to a certain degree, while many small new universities offer rather low quality education, mostly for the private, not for the public sector. The research shows that educational preparation in the region tends to preserve predominantly legalistic nature of the field, but certain improvements are observable. At the beginning of 2009, there were almost 10 tertiary administrative educational programmes in six countries on the territory of the former Yugoslavia, most of them BA and MA degrees. The content of administrative education is focused on law and administrative science. Economics and finances, informatics, and political science have a smaller share of subjects in the programmes. In Croatia, there is a constant development of the supply side, while the demand side is a bit underdeveloped. It means that the Government and other employers in the public sector do not recognize public administration studies as the first and foremost source of civil servants. However, new public administration study programmes are being established and the existing ones are being developed constantly. Overall conclusion is that there is an interconnection between the development of governance and administrative education development.

governance; South Eastern Europe; Croatia; administrative education; Europeanization; high education; public administration; legalism

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