Following the constitutional and political reforms in Central and Eastern Europe of the last decade, the time has now come for the whole-scale reform of public administration and the creation of a professional civil service. What is needed is a clear sense of the objectives to be achieved by the administration; and the provision of adequate resources to perform the tasks of public administration. In addition, and perhaps most importantly of all, there must be a sound legal basis for public administration. Recognizing these realities, this book examines administrative law and administrative institutions in Central and Eastern Europe. In a series of case studies, discussing each country in the region in turn, it looks at the ways in which a range of administrative decisions are reached and at how the citizens affected by them are treated. The material for each of the fourteen chapters was collected by a person or persons native to the respective country.

Galligan Denis J. :

Denis J. Galligan, BCL, MA, is Professor of Law at the Law Department of the University of Oxford, and Director of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford.

Smilov Daniel M. :

Daniel Smilov is a comparative constitutional lawyer and political scientist. He is Associate Professor of Political Theory at the Political Science Department, University of Sofia; Programme Director at the Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia, and Recurrent Visiting Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at the Central European University, Budapest.