35 Years of Public Sector Reform in Central Europe

Michiel S. de Vries is Professor of Public Administration at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania, and Emeritus Professor at Radboud University, the Netherlands.Juraj Nemec is Professor of Public Finance and Public Management, Masaryk University, Czechia.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Institutional drivers of reforms and reformism.- 3. The development in the goals of reforms.- 4. Reform processes in practice: decentralization and recentralization.- 5. Reform processes in practice: towards and away from principles of good governance.- 6. Reform processes in practice: improving public service delivery.- 7. Reflections and Conclusions