Andreja Pegan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4128767 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andreja Pegan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andreja |
| FAMILY NAME | Pegan |
| SIGNATURE | PEGAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Primorska |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4397-6498 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Public communication and strategic planning: The case of EU Cohesion Policy
The article explores how strategic planning is employed to address the governance context of public communication by considering the case of the EU’s Cohesion Policy. We distinguish formal strategic planning (steps and procedures for developing a top-down strategy) from deliberative practices of strategic planning (strategy-as-practice), which enable stakeholder participation in Cohesion Policy governance. It is argued that both approaches should…
Four leaders, four decades: Leadership and European parliament’s secretaries-general
Creating public value in regional policy. Bringing citizens back in
We develop a novel citizen-centred multi-dimensional approach to public value creation in regional policy. Drawing on 47 citizen focus groups in 16 European regions, public values are analysed through an interpretative comparative approach. Goal attainment is a positive and widely held value. However, evaluations of institutional performance and democratic values are more negative. The findings have significant implications for public value manag…
Strategic planning for local government co-creation: Evidence from Croatia and Slovenia
This article explores to what extent strategic planning is important for the implementation of co-creation, the process through which public authorities solve problems with partners outside their organization. The article explores local government in Croatia and Slovenia, where structural conditions – problems with administrative capacity, low strategic planning capacities, a weakly embedded civil society and the private sector in the provision o…
Local government officers, pragmatism and creativity during austerity – the case of Urban Green Newcastle
In the UK, during austerity local governments face pressures to identify transformative financial solutions to parks provision and to protect parks as public spaces. Yet, how local government officers balance these demands is under-explored. This article discusses the transfer of Newcastle upon Tyne's parks from local government to a new entity, Urban Green Newcastle. Working within a project framework, across the local authority, and in public c…
Strategies and transitions to public sector co-creation across Europe
This article analyses 14 co-creation cases in six European countries from macro and meso theoretical perspectives on strategic public management. The comparative case study includes focus group sessions and interviews with 107 professionals and 26 managers. Findings show, first, that co-creation is not limited to countries with a strong affinity to new public governance, but also occur in more traditional public administration – or new public man…
Blurred lines between electoral and parliamentary representation: The use of constituency staff among Members of the European Parliament
Parliamentarians receive public funding to employ local staff in the constituency. Local staff help members of parliament to execute their representative duties, but can also become an electoral asset. Drawing on theories of personal vote-seeking we study local staff as an example of constituency service. Modelling within-individual changes in local staff size among 1174 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), we find that the number of local …
A temporal perspective on staff support in the European parliament
This article analyses how the administrative-bureaucratic or staff support structures available to Members of the European Parliament (Secretariat officials, political group advisors and parliamentary assistants) changed in response to the formal development of the European Parliament into a legislature or parliamentarisation. Providing a temporal perspective, the aim is to explain bureaucratisation (as the processes whereby non-elected officials…
Parliament in gross human rights violations: The case of Darfur
The Bureaucratic Growth of the European Union
This article explores supranational activism on the example of bureaucratic growth in the institutions of the EU - operationalised as the number of staff members. The main question is to what extent are the numbers of staff employed in the EU institutions and bodies dependent on member states and their decisions to increase the functions of the EU through either treaty changes or the ratifications of accession treaties. To answer this question, t…
The role of personal parliamentary assistants in the European Parliament
The article scrutinises the behaviour of the personal staff of MEPs, using newly collected survey data. The personal staff known as accredited parliamentary assistants (APAs) have long been in the shadow of staff in parliamentary groups and staff in the European Parliament’s (EP) central Secretariat. In the 2010s, MEPs’ allowance for personal staff increased and a statute for APAs was adopted. Against the background of these reforms, this article…
The role of personal parliamentary assistants in the European Parliament
The article scrutinises the behaviour of the personal staff of MEPs, using newly collected survey data. The personal staff known as accredited parliamentary assistants (APAs) have long been in the shadow of staff in parliamentary groups and staff in the European Parliament’s (EP) central Secretariat. In the 2010s, MEPs’ allowance for personal staff increased and a statute for APAs was adopted. Against the background of these reforms, this article…
Blurred lines between electoral and parliamentary representation: The use of constituency staff among Members of the European Parliament
Parliamentarians receive public funding to employ local staff in the constituency. Local staff help members of parliament to execute their representative duties, but can also become an electoral asset. Drawing on theories of personal vote-seeking we study local staff as an example of constituency service. Modelling within-individual changes in local staff size among 1174 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), we find that the number of local …
A temporal perspective on staff support in the European parliament
This article analyses how the administrative-bureaucratic or staff support structures available to Members of the European Parliament (Secretariat officials, political group advisors and parliamentary assistants) changed in response to the formal development of the European Parliament into a legislature or parliamentarisation. Providing a temporal perspective, the aim is to explain bureaucratisation (as the processes whereby non-elected officials…
Strategies and transitions to public sector co-creation across Europe
This article analyses 14 co-creation cases in six European countries from macro and meso theoretical perspectives on strategic public management. The comparative case study includes focus group sessions and interviews with 107 professionals and 26 managers. Findings show, first, that co-creation is not limited to countries with a strong affinity to new public governance, but also occur in more traditional public administration – or new public man…
Local government officers, pragmatism and creativity during austerity – the case of Urban Green Newcastle
In the UK, during austerity local governments face pressures to identify transformative financial solutions to parks provision and to protect parks as public spaces. Yet, how local government officers balance these demands is under-explored. This article discusses the transfer of Newcastle upon Tyne's parks from local government to a new entity, Urban Green Newcastle. Working within a project framework, across the local authority, and in public c…
The role of personal parliamentary assistants in the European Parliament
The article scrutinises the behaviour of the personal staff of MEPs, using newly collected survey data. The personal staff known as accredited parliamentary assistants (APAs) have long been in the shadow of staff in parliamentary groups and staff in the European Parliament’s (EP) central Secretariat. In the 2010s, MEPs’ allowance for personal staff increased and a statute for APAs was adopted. Against the background of these reforms, this article…
The Bureaucratic Growth of the European Union
This article explores supranational activism on the example of bureaucratic growth in the institutions of the EU - operationalised as the number of staff members. The main question is to what extent are the numbers of staff employed in the EU institutions and bodies dependent on member states and their decisions to increase the functions of the EU through either treaty changes or the ratifications of accession treaties. To answer this question, t…
Parliament in gross human rights violations: The case of Darfur
A temporal perspective on staff support in the European parliament
This article analyses how the administrative-bureaucratic or staff support structures available to Members of the European Parliament (Secretariat officials, political group advisors and parliamentary assistants) changed in response to the formal development of the European Parliament into a legislature or parliamentarisation. Providing a temporal perspective, the aim is to explain bureaucratisation (as the processes whereby non-elected officials…
Strategies and transitions to public sector co-creation across Europe
This article analyses 14 co-creation cases in six European countries from macro and meso theoretical perspectives on strategic public management. The comparative case study includes focus group sessions and interviews with 107 professionals and 26 managers. Findings show, first, that co-creation is not limited to countries with a strong affinity to new public governance, but also occur in more traditional public administration – or new public man…
Blurred lines between electoral and parliamentary representation: The use of constituency staff among Members of the European Parliament
Parliamentarians receive public funding to employ local staff in the constituency. Local staff help members of parliament to execute their representative duties, but can also become an electoral asset. Drawing on theories of personal vote-seeking we study local staff as an example of constituency service. Modelling within-individual changes in local staff size among 1174 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), we find that the number of local …
Creating public value in regional policy. Bringing citizens back in
We develop a novel citizen-centred multi-dimensional approach to public value creation in regional policy. Drawing on 47 citizen focus groups in 16 European regions, public values are analysed through an interpretative comparative approach. Goal attainment is a positive and widely held value. However, evaluations of institutional performance and democratic values are more negative. The findings have significant implications for public value manag…
Strategic planning for local government co-creation: Evidence from Croatia and Slovenia
This article explores to what extent strategic planning is important for the implementation of co-creation, the process through which public authorities solve problems with partners outside their organization. The article explores local government in Croatia and Slovenia, where structural conditions – problems with administrative capacity, low strategic planning capacities, a weakly embedded civil society and the private sector in the provision o…
Local government officers, pragmatism and creativity during austerity – the case of Urban Green Newcastle
In the UK, during austerity local governments face pressures to identify transformative financial solutions to parks provision and to protect parks as public spaces. Yet, how local government officers balance these demands is under-explored. This article discusses the transfer of Newcastle upon Tyne's parks from local government to a new entity, Urban Green Newcastle. Working within a project framework, across the local authority, and in public c…
Public communication and strategic planning: The case of EU Cohesion Policy
The article explores how strategic planning is employed to address the governance context of public communication by considering the case of the EU’s Cohesion Policy. We distinguish formal strategic planning (steps and procedures for developing a top-down strategy) from deliberative practices of strategic planning (strategy-as-practice), which enable stakeholder participation in Cohesion Policy governance. It is argued that both approaches should…
Four leaders, four decades: Leadership and European parliament’s secretaries-general
Political science (11 works) · Public Administration (11 works) · Politics (9 works) · Public Administration (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Parliament (5 works) · Business (4 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (4 works)