Tiina Randma-Liiv
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4128526 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Tiina Randma-Liiv |
| NOMBRES | Tiina |
| APELLIDO | Randma-Liiv |
| FIRMA | RANDMA-LIIV T |
| AFILIACIONES | Tallinn University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1146-3425 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 105 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Bridging the trust gap through proactive transparency
Proactive transparency—the voluntary release of information by public authorities—is widely promoted to enhance accountability and trust, yet its effects in accountability-deficit contexts are complicated by selective and limited disclosure practices. This study examines how the content and framing of proactive disclosures shape trust judgments, focusing on citizens’ dual vulnerabilities: dependence on institutional performance and on the credibi…
Advancing Citizen Engagement Through Digital Tools
This comparative study examines the implementation of e-participation platforms in the three young democracies of the Baltic States: the Estonian Citizens’ Initiative Portal, the Latvian platform MyVoice, and the Lithuanian E-Citizen platform. Drawing on 28 interviews with key stakeholders of these platforms, alongside with an analysis of their content and relevant documents, this article demonstrates that, while governments often expect digitali…
Robust governance in response to societal turbulence
This introductory article to the special issue of PP&A on “Robust Governance in Turbulent Times,” defines the concepts of societal turbulence and robust governance and explains their relevance for understanding the current predicament characterized by polycrisis. It also explains the reasons for expecting multilevel governance, hybrid governance and societal intelligence to support and scaffold robust governance, and why liquid professionalism ma…
Comparing the Implications of Strategies for Governing the Covid ‐19 Pandemic for the Political Robustness of Five European Political Regimes
How do the strategies that governments employ when they encounter crisis‐induced turbulence affect the robustness of the political regime in which they operate? Comparative studies of the connection between government strategies and political regime robustness under different cultural and institutional conditions are few and far between. This article studies the vaccination strategies that governments in Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Hungary, and It…
Advancing Robust Governance in Turbulent Times
New research argues that robust governance based on flexible adaptation and proactive innovation is needed in order to uphold core public functions, purposes, and values in times of societal turbulence. However, we have limited knowledge of the conditions for enhancing robust governance. To fill that knowledge gap, we ask: How can multi‐level governance, hybrid governance, and societal intelligence contribute to the development of robust response…
Deconstructing complexity
This research deconstructs complexity as a key challenge of intergovernmental digitalisation projects. While much of the literature acknowledges that the fundamental restructuring coupled with technical capacity that these joint projects require leads to increased complexity, little is known about how different types of complexity interact within the collaborative process. Using established concepts of substantive, strategic, and institutional co…
Adoption is not enough
This study investigates the institutionalization of e-participation initiatives in six European countries—Estonia, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Scotland, and Spain—using a multiple case study. The following research questions are addressed: How have recently established e-participation initiatives been institutionalized in public administrations? What are the formal and informal aspects of their institutionalization? It is concluded that the…
Organizing e‐participation
Multiple actors involved in the provision of e‐participation initiatives add to the complexity of organizational design and blur accountability and ownership relations. This study addresses the following research questions: How are different organizations and their units involved in the supply of e‐participation initiatives? How does the multiplicity of actors affect cross‐boundary collaboration, ownership, and accountability relations in the imp…
The politics of bureaucracy
Keywords bureaucracy, Central and Eastern Europe, civil service reform, comparative public administration, post-communist transition, public administration, regulation
The Impact of Greater Centralization on the Relevance of Performance Information in European Governments During the Fiscal Crisis
The Great Recession resulted in fiscal crises for governments across the Western world. Our article explores whether, as a result of the crisis, the relevance of performance information in organizational decision-making increased. Furthermore, we examine how centralizing shifts in governmental decision-making processes influenced the shifts in the relevance of performance information for public sector organizations. Using a survey of senior gover…
Leaving the Senior Civil Service – public service bargain and beyond
The article explores why apolitical public sector managers decide to or are forced to leave the civil service in the example of the Estonian Senior Civil Service. The article shows that the concept of public service bargain can help to understand and systematise the causes of leaving the Senior Civil Service. It is particularly useful in distinguishing between voluntary and involuntary turnover and in linking the turnover with political–administr…
The Impact of Fiscal Crisis on Public Administration in Europe
This chapter outlines the responses of European governments to the recent fiscal crisis with special focus on the effects of crisis on public administration reforms. The empirical analysis relies upon an international comparative study of the responses of 14 European governments to the fiscal crisis in the period of 2008–2013. Findings show that fiscal crisis and public administration reforms are not necessarily closely connected, as the crisis i…
The Impact of Fiscal Crisis on Public Administration Reforms in Europe
The Impact of the Fiscal Crisis on Public Administration Reforms
This study aims to empirically test a widespread assumption that fiscal crises instigate administrative reforms. The empirical analysis relies upon an international comparative study of the responses of 14 European governments to the fiscal crisis of 2008–2013. It is found that fiscal crisis and public administration reforms are not necessarily closely connected. In the majority of cases, the fiscal crisis did not have an instant effect of trigge…
Fiscal Crisis and Expenditure Cuts
The Great Recession resulted in fiscal crises for governments across the Western world. Significant cuts in government programs and in public administration itself were initiated as many governments scrambled to reduce their growing budget deficits. We are interested in how European governments have reacted during the most recent crisis. In particular, our article explores whether rationally oriented management approaches are associated with targ…
New Coordination Challenges in the Welfare State
This special issue deals with coordination in the public sector. Novel coordination practices constitute a response to demands for a more efficient state apparatus and an attempt to increase govern...
The Impact of Fiscal Crisis on Decision‐Making Processes in European Governments
The Great Recession resulted in fiscal crises for governments across the Western world. Significant cuts in government programs were initiated as many governments scrambled to reduce their growing budget deficits. This article explores how European governments reacted during the recent crisis. In particular, the authors focus on the interlinkages between shifts toward more centralized decision making. The article uses a survey of thousands of pub…
From network to hierarchy
The aim of this article is to explore the opportunities for and constraints of the establishment of a central coordination instrument in a highly fragmented central government. The article is based on a case study which examines the creation of a development system for Estonian senior civil servants. It describes and explains shifts in the coordination mechanisms within this initiative over the last decade. The study concludes that networks may o…
Cutback management literature in the 1970s and 1980s
The main purpose of this article is to take stock of the literature on public sector cutback management in the 1970s and the 1980s, with a specific focus on cutback strategies and the contents of cutbacks. Both theoretical and empirical studies, focusing either on the central or local government level or different policy fields, have been reviewed. The study shows that when governments face cutbacks, they need to address the fundamental choice be…
Decision-making in time of crisis
The article investigates the Estonian government's response to the fiscal crisis by looking at the dynamics of the decision-making processes during cutback management from 2008 to 2013 from the dichotomy of centralization–decentralization. The study explores the cutback decision-making by pinpointing the main actors and contextual variables shedding light on the management of fiscal crisis. It is demonstrated that, in general, the fiscal crisis c…
Politics of fiscal consolidation in Europe
The aim of the article is to comparatively describe and explain consolidation measures and political decision-making processes in 14 European countries. The consolidation measures followed a similar pattern. Hiring and pay freeze occurred almost everywhere, whereas more radical cutback measures were introduced only in a limited number of countries. Cutback decision-making was not a one-off event, but consisted of a series of stages, beginning wit…
Emerging coordination practices of European central governments
This symposium deals with new coordination practices that have emerged among European public sectors to cope with complex societal challenges. Governments struggle to deal with multifaceted policy problems that defy simple solutions and straddle the borders of organizations and ministerial areas of responsibility as well as administrative levels. Thus, public-sector coordination has become a key asset in governments’ policy capacity (Governments …
Global Financial Crisis, Public Administration and Governance
Public Personnel Policies and Problems in the New Democracies of Central and Eastern Europe
The development of personnel policies in the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) may be divided into three periods: institution building and introduction of modern personnel policies in the 1990s; Europeanization of personnel policies before acceding to the EU; and making further adjustments after accession. The development of selected personnel policies in new CEE democracies is analyzed. The paper concludes by recommending that,…
Public sector HRM
Purpose The purpose of the paper is to outline and analyse the limitations and opportunities of decentralised human resource management (HRM) in the public sector. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on a case study of the Estonian Central Government. Findings It is demonstrated that the absence of a central human resource strategy, combined with fragmentation, insufficient coordination and a lack of common values throughout the public…
Cutback management literature in the 1970s and 1980s
The main purpose of this article is to take stock of the literature on public sector cutback management in the 1970s and the 1980s, with a specific focus on cutback strategies and the contents of cutbacks. Both theoretical and empirical studies, focusing either on the central or local government level or different policy fields, have been reviewed. The study shows that when governments face cutbacks, they need to address the fundamental choice be…
The Impact of Fiscal Crisis on Decision‐Making Processes in European Governments
The Great Recession resulted in fiscal crises for governments across the Western world. Significant cuts in government programs were initiated as many governments scrambled to reduce their growing budget deficits. This article explores how European governments reacted during the recent crisis. In particular, the authors focus on the interlinkages between shifts toward more centralized decision making. The article uses a survey of thousands of pub…
The Impact of the Fiscal Crisis on Public Administration Reforms
This study aims to empirically test a widespread assumption that fiscal crises instigate administrative reforms. The empirical analysis relies upon an international comparative study of the responses of 14 European governments to the fiscal crisis of 2008–2013. It is found that fiscal crisis and public administration reforms are not necessarily closely connected. In the majority of cases, the fiscal crisis did not have an instant effect of trigge…
Fiscal Crisis and Expenditure Cuts
The Great Recession resulted in fiscal crises for governments across the Western world. Significant cuts in government programs and in public administration itself were initiated as many governments scrambled to reduce their growing budget deficits. We are interested in how European governments have reacted during the most recent crisis. In particular, our article explores whether rationally oriented management approaches are associated with targ…
Decision-making in time of crisis
The article investigates the Estonian government's response to the fiscal crisis by looking at the dynamics of the decision-making processes during cutback management from 2008 to 2013 from the dichotomy of centralization–decentralization. The study explores the cutback decision-making by pinpointing the main actors and contextual variables shedding light on the management of fiscal crisis. It is demonstrated that, in general, the fiscal crisis c…
Politics of fiscal consolidation in Europe
The aim of the article is to comparatively describe and explain consolidation measures and political decision-making processes in 14 European countries. The consolidation measures followed a similar pattern. Hiring and pay freeze occurred almost everywhere, whereas more radical cutback measures were introduced only in a limited number of countries. Cutback decision-making was not a one-off event, but consisted of a series of stages, beginning wit…
Emerging coordination practices of European central governments
This symposium deals with new coordination practices that have emerged among European public sectors to cope with complex societal challenges. Governments struggle to deal with multifaceted policy problems that defy simple solutions and straddle the borders of organizations and ministerial areas of responsibility as well as administrative levels. Thus, public-sector coordination has become a key asset in governments’ policy capacity (Governments …
Performance Management in Transitional Administration
The article analyzes the problems of incorporating performance management techniques into a transitional administration. Critical factors for the success of pay-for-performance are identified, which form the basis for the Estonian case study. It has been demonstrated that although the common problems of pay-for-performance in Western countries are also present in the Estonian context, they are supplemented by specific issues related to transition…
Adoption is not enough
This study investigates the institutionalization of e-participation initiatives in six European countries—Estonia, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Scotland, and Spain—using a multiple case study. The following research questions are addressed: How have recently established e-participation initiatives been institutionalized in public administrations? What are the formal and informal aspects of their institutionalization? It is concluded that the…
Leaving the Senior Civil Service – public service bargain and beyond
The article explores why apolitical public sector managers decide to or are forced to leave the civil service in the example of the Estonian Senior Civil Service. The article shows that the concept of public service bargain can help to understand and systematise the causes of leaving the Senior Civil Service. It is particularly useful in distinguishing between voluntary and involuntary turnover and in linking the turnover with political–administr…
The Impact of Fiscal Crisis on Public Administration Reforms in Europe
Organizing e‐participation
Multiple actors involved in the provision of e‐participation initiatives add to the complexity of organizational design and blur accountability and ownership relations. This study addresses the following research questions: How are different organizations and their units involved in the supply of e‐participation initiatives? How does the multiplicity of actors affect cross‐boundary collaboration, ownership, and accountability relations in the imp…
The politics of bureaucracy
Keywords bureaucracy, Central and Eastern Europe, civil service reform, comparative public administration, post-communist transition, public administration, regulation
From network to hierarchy
The aim of this article is to explore the opportunities for and constraints of the establishment of a central coordination instrument in a highly fragmented central government. The article is based on a case study which examines the creation of a development system for Estonian senior civil servants. It describes and explains shifts in the coordination mechanisms within this initiative over the last decade. The study concludes that networks may o…
Demand- and supply-based policy transfer in Estonian public administration
The aim of this study is to analyze the role of foreign influence in the development of Estonian central government since the beginning of the 1990s. A distinction is made between two types of policy transfer, which have been characteristic of Estonia and can be applied to transitional countries more generally. The first is demand-based policy learning based on the initiative and acknowledged need of recipient countries. The second is supply-base…
The Impact of Greater Centralization on the Relevance of Performance Information in European Governments During the Fiscal Crisis
The Great Recession resulted in fiscal crises for governments across the Western world. Our article explores whether, as a result of the crisis, the relevance of performance information in organizational decision-making increased. Furthermore, we examine how centralizing shifts in governmental decision-making processes influenced the shifts in the relevance of performance information for public sector organizations. Using a survey of senior gover…
Public Personnel Policies and Problems in the New Democracies of Central and Eastern Europe
The development of personnel policies in the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) may be divided into three periods: institution building and introduction of modern personnel policies in the 1990s; Europeanization of personnel policies before acceding to the EU; and making further adjustments after accession. The development of selected personnel policies in new CEE democracies is analyzed. The paper concludes by recommending that,…
Small States and Bureaucracy
The aim of the study is to examine the consequences of the size of a state for public administration. Differences between larger and smaller countries are shown to be not merely quantitative but also qualitative. The size of the state appears to have a number of implications for the development of public administration. Public organizations in small states face some problems which are significantly different from those of larger bureaucracies, su…
Public Administration as a Field of Study
As an academic field Public Administration retains its complex identity as a subject that cannot be observed within clearly defined boundaries independent from other disciplines. Despite this the Europeanization of public administration as a profession provides opportunities for the convergence of the study. The article analyses several factors which impact upon both the national orientation to the study of Public Administration and the difficult…
Performance Management in Transitional Administration
The article analyzes the problems of incorporating performance management techniques into a transitional administration. Critical factors for the success of pay-for-performance are identified, which form the basis for the Estonian case study. It has been demonstrated that although the common problems of pay-for-performance in Western countries are also present in the Estonian context, they are supplemented by specific issues related to transition…
Demand- and supply-based policy transfer in Estonian public administration
The aim of this study is to analyze the role of foreign influence in the development of Estonian central government since the beginning of the 1990s. A distinction is made between two types of policy transfer, which have been characteristic of Estonia and can be applied to transitional countries more generally. The first is demand-based policy learning based on the initiative and acknowledged need of recipient countries. The second is supply-base…
Public sector HRM
Purpose The purpose of the paper is to outline and analyse the limitations and opportunities of decentralised human resource management (HRM) in the public sector. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on a case study of the Estonian Central Government. Findings It is demonstrated that the absence of a central human resource strategy, combined with fragmentation, insufficient coordination and a lack of common values throughout the public…
Global Financial Crisis, Public Administration and Governance
Public Personnel Policies and Problems in the New Democracies of Central and Eastern Europe
The development of personnel policies in the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) may be divided into three periods: institution building and introduction of modern personnel policies in the 1990s; Europeanization of personnel policies before acceding to the EU; and making further adjustments after accession. The development of selected personnel policies in new CEE democracies is analyzed. The paper concludes by recommending that,…
New Coordination Challenges in the Welfare State
This special issue deals with coordination in the public sector. Novel coordination practices constitute a response to demands for a more efficient state apparatus and an attempt to increase govern...
The Impact of Fiscal Crisis on Decision‐Making Processes in European Governments
The Great Recession resulted in fiscal crises for governments across the Western world. Significant cuts in government programs were initiated as many governments scrambled to reduce their growing budget deficits. This article explores how European governments reacted during the recent crisis. In particular, the authors focus on the interlinkages between shifts toward more centralized decision making. The article uses a survey of thousands of pub…
From network to hierarchy
The aim of this article is to explore the opportunities for and constraints of the establishment of a central coordination instrument in a highly fragmented central government. The article is based on a case study which examines the creation of a development system for Estonian senior civil servants. It describes and explains shifts in the coordination mechanisms within this initiative over the last decade. The study concludes that networks may o…
Cutback management literature in the 1970s and 1980s
The main purpose of this article is to take stock of the literature on public sector cutback management in the 1970s and the 1980s, with a specific focus on cutback strategies and the contents of cutbacks. Both theoretical and empirical studies, focusing either on the central or local government level or different policy fields, have been reviewed. The study shows that when governments face cutbacks, they need to address the fundamental choice be…
Decision-making in time of crisis
The article investigates the Estonian government's response to the fiscal crisis by looking at the dynamics of the decision-making processes during cutback management from 2008 to 2013 from the dichotomy of centralization–decentralization. The study explores the cutback decision-making by pinpointing the main actors and contextual variables shedding light on the management of fiscal crisis. It is demonstrated that, in general, the fiscal crisis c…
Politics of fiscal consolidation in Europe
The aim of the article is to comparatively describe and explain consolidation measures and political decision-making processes in 14 European countries. The consolidation measures followed a similar pattern. Hiring and pay freeze occurred almost everywhere, whereas more radical cutback measures were introduced only in a limited number of countries. Cutback decision-making was not a one-off event, but consisted of a series of stages, beginning wit…
Emerging coordination practices of European central governments
This symposium deals with new coordination practices that have emerged among European public sectors to cope with complex societal challenges. Governments struggle to deal with multifaceted policy problems that defy simple solutions and straddle the borders of organizations and ministerial areas of responsibility as well as administrative levels. Thus, public-sector coordination has become a key asset in governments’ policy capacity (Governments …
The Impact of the Fiscal Crisis on Public Administration Reforms
This study aims to empirically test a widespread assumption that fiscal crises instigate administrative reforms. The empirical analysis relies upon an international comparative study of the responses of 14 European governments to the fiscal crisis of 2008–2013. It is found that fiscal crisis and public administration reforms are not necessarily closely connected. In the majority of cases, the fiscal crisis did not have an instant effect of trigge…
Fiscal Crisis and Expenditure Cuts
The Great Recession resulted in fiscal crises for governments across the Western world. Significant cuts in government programs and in public administration itself were initiated as many governments scrambled to reduce their growing budget deficits. We are interested in how European governments have reacted during the most recent crisis. In particular, our article explores whether rationally oriented management approaches are associated with targ…
The Impact of Fiscal Crisis on Public Administration Reforms in Europe
The Impact of Fiscal Crisis on Public Administration in Europe
This chapter outlines the responses of European governments to the recent fiscal crisis with special focus on the effects of crisis on public administration reforms. The empirical analysis relies upon an international comparative study of the responses of 14 European governments to the fiscal crisis in the period of 2008–2013. Findings show that fiscal crisis and public administration reforms are not necessarily closely connected, as the crisis i…
The politics of bureaucracy
Keywords bureaucracy, Central and Eastern Europe, civil service reform, comparative public administration, post-communist transition, public administration, regulation
The Impact of Greater Centralization on the Relevance of Performance Information in European Governments During the Fiscal Crisis
The Great Recession resulted in fiscal crises for governments across the Western world. Our article explores whether, as a result of the crisis, the relevance of performance information in organizational decision-making increased. Furthermore, we examine how centralizing shifts in governmental decision-making processes influenced the shifts in the relevance of performance information for public sector organizations. Using a survey of senior gover…
Leaving the Senior Civil Service – public service bargain and beyond
The article explores why apolitical public sector managers decide to or are forced to leave the civil service in the example of the Estonian Senior Civil Service. The article shows that the concept of public service bargain can help to understand and systematise the causes of leaving the Senior Civil Service. It is particularly useful in distinguishing between voluntary and involuntary turnover and in linking the turnover with political–administr…
Organizing e‐participation
Multiple actors involved in the provision of e‐participation initiatives add to the complexity of organizational design and blur accountability and ownership relations. This study addresses the following research questions: How are different organizations and their units involved in the supply of e‐participation initiatives? How does the multiplicity of actors affect cross‐boundary collaboration, ownership, and accountability relations in the imp…
Deconstructing complexity
This research deconstructs complexity as a key challenge of intergovernmental digitalisation projects. While much of the literature acknowledges that the fundamental restructuring coupled with technical capacity that these joint projects require leads to increased complexity, little is known about how different types of complexity interact within the collaborative process. Using established concepts of substantive, strategic, and institutional co…
Adoption is not enough
This study investigates the institutionalization of e-participation initiatives in six European countries—Estonia, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Scotland, and Spain—using a multiple case study. The following research questions are addressed: How have recently established e-participation initiatives been institutionalized in public administrations? What are the formal and informal aspects of their institutionalization? It is concluded that the…
Comparing the Implications of Strategies for Governing the Covid ‐19 Pandemic for the Political Robustness of Five European Political Regimes
How do the strategies that governments employ when they encounter crisis‐induced turbulence affect the robustness of the political regime in which they operate? Comparative studies of the connection between government strategies and political regime robustness under different cultural and institutional conditions are few and far between. This article studies the vaccination strategies that governments in Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Hungary, and It…
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