| Title |
The agendas of public administration reforms in Lithuania: windows of opportunity in the period 2004 – 2017 / |
| Authors |
Nakrošis, Vitalis |
| DOI |
10.2478/nispa-2018-0004 |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
The NISPAcee journal of public administration and policy.. Bratislava : NISPAcee Press. 2018, vol. 11, no. 1, p. 91-114.. ISSN 1337-9038. eISSN 1338-4309 |
| Keywords [eng] |
public administration reforms ; agenda setting ; windows of opportunity ; policy entrepreneurship ; Lithuania |
| Abstract [eng] |
The article analyses changes in the reform agendas of the Lithuanian government in the period 2004 – 2017. Instead of exploring the systemic and formal agendas of administrative reforms based on government strategies and programmes, it focuses on the institutional and actual agendas of Lithuanian authorities using a set of 20 reform initiatives. In addition to the analysis of the institutional context, we also assess a coupling logic and the exercise of political or bureaucratic entrepreneurship during reform policy making. Th e article finds that budgetary constraints and the reform policy priorities of the Lithuanian governments explain the ambitious agendas of administrative reforms during the 2008 – 2012 government and, to a lesser extent, during the 2016 – 2020 government. Th e political logic of coupling and political entrepreneurship dominated the fl ow of the reform process when these governments were in office, producing the top-down approach to reform policy making. In contrast, the 2004 – 2006, 2006 – 2008 and 2012 – 2016 governments relied strongly on a policy-centred logic of coupling together with bureaucratic entrepreneurship, which resulted in the bottom-up approach to administrative reforms in the country. |
| Published |
Bratislava : NISPAcee Press |
| Type |
Journal article |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2018 |
