Civil service reform in post-communist Europe: the bumpy road to depoliticisation.

West European Politics | January 1, 2004| | Copyright

Political science literature that concentrates on processes of democratisation and marketisation in post-communist Europe tends to regard the establishment of a professional, de-politicised civil service as a prerequisite for the success of the 'dual transformation' (Bartlett 1997) from one party to multi-party democracy and from a state-planned to a market economy. (1) Linz and Stepan (1997: 14), for instance, argue that a 'usable state apparatus' organised on the basis of 'rational-legal bureaucratic norms' is one of five major arenas that constitute a 'modern consolidated ...

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