Inception Report: Democratization, Capture of the State and New Forms of Governance in CEE countries

Inception Report: Democratization, Capture of the State and New Forms of Governance in CEE countries
Tomasz Grzegorz Grosse
The present report constitutes an introduction to the project undertaken by the Institute of Public Affairs in Warsaw on the new modes of governance in selected countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The first part of the report describes new modes of governance in EU Member States with special consideration given to the following features of the discussed methods: the abandonment of traditional, hierarchical state administration, decentralization and marketization of public tasks governance, democratisation of the administration’s functioning, increasing networking of intra-national and international relations between the ad-ministrations. The second part of the report examines the key factors conducive to the change in modes of governance in the administrations of CEE countries, which are: the socialist tradition and the influence of political transformation and European integration. Subsequent parts of the report present basic research objectives and hypotheses. The report concludes with the proposal of basic research areas, stages and methodology.

Inception Report: Democratization, Capture of the State and New Forms of Governance in CEE countries