Juraj Nemec
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3861208 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Juraj Nemec |
| PRENOMES | Juraj |
| SOBRENOME | Nemec |
| ASSINATURA | NEMEC J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Masaryk University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5881-7422 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Benefits, drivers, and barriers of the school fruit and vegetables scheme in Slovakia
Objective: Childhood obesity affects health and well-being, leading to reduced fitness, increased blood pressure, and other health complications. Beyond its immediate effects, obesity during adolescence increases the risk of morbidity and mortality in adulthood. The consumption of fruit and vegetables may help prevent many diseases, including obesity. However, school-aged children often do not consume enough of these types of foods. This study ex…
Public procurement scandals and trust in government during Covid-19
Purpose On average, 14% of GDP is allocated through public procurement, which was also a key tool for purchasing health equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic. These procurements were the subjects of malpractice. Most visible malpractices have led to public scandals and have been widely covered by the media. Therefore, our exploratory study focuses on how scandals in public procurement environments during pandemics can affect trust in government.…
Drivers and barriers of intermunicipal cooperation in local service delivery
Slovakia, like several other countries, has a highly fragmented system of local self-government. According to theoretical expectations, small municipalities with only a few hundred inhabitants often lack sufficient internal capacity to deliver local public services within their responsibilities (in-house production), especially when the services are complex and require specialised expertise. In cases when externalising service delivery (contracti…
From Corruption Networks to State Capture and Back
The article compares key aspects of various forms of state capture in the Czech Republic and its evolution. This research focuses on the issue of public procurement and as a research method it uses multiple case studies analyzing selected corruption cases. In the case of corporate state capture, decentralized informal structures operate in parallel with official structures. In the case of oligarchic state capture, corruption practices are central…
The role of legitimacy in robust crisis governance. Examining the failed European response to the turbulence of the 2015-16 refugee crisis
This article examines the European governance failures that occurred during the 2015-16 refugee crisis through the lens of robust crisis governance. The article asks whether these failures can be explained by a failure to meet the double criterion for robust governance proposed by Ansell and colleagues, which is (i) creating adaptive or innovative crisis responses and (ii) doing so while maintaining legitimacy. To answer this question, the articl…
Rebuilding Countries in a War and Post‐War Context
The aim of this study was to examine the results from the use of a model of reconstruction driven by security and economic concerns in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Palestine, and to compare those results with the situation in Rwanda, where a different model of sustainable development was used to help the country recover from conflicts. The results suggest that the frequently used reconstruction model, based on security arrangements and economic benefit…
Public Administration Education in the Czech Republic
This article maps and discusses the state of public administration education in the Czech Republic. The main method is the multiple case study, covering three topics. The first case enhances information about the scope and scale of public administration in the country. The data suggest that, especially at public schools, the number of students is continuously falling, and public administration did not develop as a specific discipline. The second …
Conflict and Public Administration Performance
In the academic literature, there has yet to be a firm consensus on the type of link between conflict and public administration. This article investigates if/how conflict influences post-conflict public administration performance in selected conflict-affected states in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), namely Croatia, Georgia, Kosovo, and Serbia. However, the selected countries do not demonstrate a tangible global impact of conflict on public adm…
A comparative analysis of the efficiency of public funding policies for sports in the European Union
This study examines the technical efficiency of sports funding policies in the European Union countries. It aims to identify the efficiency of European countries in achieving two public policy objectives for sports: supporting the population’s sporting activities and promoting sports representation, which is expressed by international sporting success. Additionally, the study aims to identify any statistical outliers within this group. Data envel…
Performance funding of universities and its impacts on accountability
Our goal was to analyse the effects of performance funding in the specific conditions of Czech and Slovak institutions of higher education, based on the assumption that the key motive for introducing performance funding is to increase accountability. The article confirms that NPM tools still co-exist with other reform trajectories and framings and provides a detailed explanation of how performance funding schemes work in financing higher educatio…
The Barriers to Green Public Procurement
The amount of academic literature related to green procurement is steadily growing. However, the number of relevant articles in the “post-socialist” region is still minimal, and existing articles focus mainly on the situation of the current European Union. Our goal was to investigate the barriers to green public procurement in two “pairs” of “post-socialist” countries (Czech Republic, Slovakia as developed countries and Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan …
Civil Society Versus Local Self‐Governments and Central Government in V4 Countries
In the new EU member states, there are very few studies analyzing the role of central and local self-governments in co-design processes. Nevertheless, such studies are particularly important as co-creation takes place in the context of former post-communist countries where central power reigned supreme and cooperation with the civil sector was very limited. This article aims to enrich the existing debate on the role of central and local self-gove…
International Trends in Participatory Budgeting
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Public Administration in Conflict Affected Countries
The evolutionary trajectory of social enterprises in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
The paper contributes to the research on social enterprises. Based on historical institutionalism, we map the evolution of social enterprises in the Czech Republic and Slovakia after the collapse of communist rule. The findings indicate that the historical-evolutionary trajectories differ, despite their common path during the totalitarian regime. There is some convergence based on significant political changes that resulted mostly in the need to …
The Use of Diagnosis-Related Group-Based Reimbursement in the Czech Hospital Care System
(1) Background: Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRG), one possibility of a hospital payment system, are currently used in most European countries. Introduced to the Czech system in the 1990s, the DRGs are currently used mainly for care reporting and partly for reimbursement. According to most experts, the use of DRG remain controversial. The goal of this paper was to study the effects of the current Czech DRG system on hospitals financing and, on this …
Devolution and the efficiency of cultural heritage preservation
This article analyzes the impact of devolution on the efficiency of regional museums in the Czech Republic, a country with a more than 40-year communist history. According to our results, devolution in the Czech Republic did not lead to increased efficiency, contrary to what the general theory of decentralization assumes. In our opinion, this situation is caused by path dependency, the frozen public administration reform, and the conservative app…
Policy Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic and Potential Outcomes in Central and Eastern Europe
This article compares policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and their probable results in three countries: the Czech Republic, the Russian Federation, and the Slovak Republic. The article is based on a multiple case study method. It confirms that in the three countries studied, the timing of policy responses and the success in motivating compliance represent important critical factors in containing the pandemic. It discusses the innovative ex…
Autonomy and performance of local museums
This paper deals with the analysis of the impact of the autonomy of museums founded by municipalities in the Czech Republic on selected performance areas. On a sample of 180 museums founded by municipalities, comparisons were conducted for the period 2010–2016 on the performance of museums which are autonomous entities and museums that are part of the municipal authority. For the areas of performance, there was a focus on expositions, exhibitions…
Public policy responses to the spread of Covid-19 as a potential factor determining health results
The goal of this paper is to identify critical factors in success/failure of public policies focusing on fighting the spread of COVID-19 pandemic using a sample of three countries from Central and Eastern Europe with different results regarding COVID-19 morbidity and mortality rates, namely the Czech Republic, the Russian Federation, and the Slovak Republic. Based on comprehensive literature review, three independent variables were worked out: th…
The Covid-19 pandemic and local government finance
Purpose The current Covid-19 crisis research focuses especially on epidemiologic and macro-level socioeconomic aspects. It only marginally covers impacts on local budgets. Our intention is to enrich the existing limited debate on this dimension. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses a qualitative research approach and is based on secondary research and information available in restrictive regulations of national governments, data published …
Factors and Determinants of the Quality of Public Administration in the CEE-Region
This chapter addresses the progress seen in PA research in Central and Eastern Europe. It does so by first describing the societal contexts with their problems, historical legacies and transformation during the last 25 years. Subsequently it addresses the professionalization of the civil service and other important dimensions of PA reforms in the region. The main conclusion is that, although huge differences are seen in the context of varying cou…
Martin Potůček – 70 years Laudation
Sciendo provides publishing services and solutions to academic and professional organizations and individual authors. We publish journals, books, conference proceedings and a variety of other publications
Devolution in the Czech and Slovak institutions of cultural heritage
This paper presents a comparative study of the impact of devolution on institutions in the area of cultural heritage in the Czech and Slovak Republics. Both states had formed a previous federation. After the break-up of the federation, public administration reforms with different trajectories took place in each state. In the Czech Republic, part of the museums was transferred from the authority of the ministries to the regions. This process, howe…
Rethinking Nonprofit Commercialization
Some nonprofit economists tend to see nonprofit commercialization as a moral dilemma because commercial activities may secure organizational survival at the cost of undermining the mission orientation. The present paper argues that this type of moral framing of the commercialization debate is hardly adequate for the transitional context of the Czech nonprofit sector which is still struggling to develop its distinct institutional identity. Given t…
Rethinking Nonprofit Commercialization
Some nonprofit economists tend to see nonprofit commercialization as a moral dilemma because commercial activities may secure organizational survival at the cost of undermining the mission orientation. The present paper argues that this type of moral framing of the commercialization debate is hardly adequate for the transitional context of the Czech nonprofit sector which is still struggling to develop its distinct institutional identity. Given t…
The Political Economy of Slovak and Czech Health Policy
After 1989, the Czech and Slovak health-care systems followed dissimilar policies. Change was faster, more profound and more experimental in the Czech Republic. But after 10 years there are clear similarities in their health status achievements and systemic problems. By showing how a common past and a similar insurance-based finance model interact with commitments to universal access, the common outcomes and problems are explained. It is argued t…
Market-based health care reforms in Central and Eastern Europe
After 1989, all Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries implemented large-scale health care reforms. The changes differ among CEE countries, depending very much on the specific conditions present at the start of and during the processes. However, there are some common issues—most notably, the introduction of several market-based instruments, including introducing health insurance financing systems to replace general taxation-based models, pr…
Policy Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic and Potential Outcomes in Central and Eastern Europe
This article compares policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and their probable results in three countries: the Czech Republic, the Russian Federation, and the Slovak Republic. The article is based on a multiple case study method. It confirms that in the three countries studied, the timing of policy responses and the success in motivating compliance represent important critical factors in containing the pandemic. It discusses the innovative ex…
Devolution in the Czech and Slovak institutions of cultural heritage
This paper presents a comparative study of the impact of devolution on institutions in the area of cultural heritage in the Czech and Slovak Republics. Both states had formed a previous federation. After the break-up of the federation, public administration reforms with different trajectories took place in each state. In the Czech Republic, part of the museums was transferred from the authority of the ministries to the regions. This process, howe…
Health Policy in Slovakia and the Outcomes of Health Care Reforms
Slovak health policy and health outcomes since 1989 are described and analyzed. It is shown that health outcomes have improved during this period, but it is suggested that with a stronger financial base, and improved economic efficiency, more could be achieved. After the 1993 reforms the system moved from direct funding from the budget, to a mixed funding model. The most important funding source is health insurance. There are also some state budg…
Rebuilding Countries in a War and Post‐War Context
The aim of this study was to examine the results from the use of a model of reconstruction driven by security and economic concerns in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Palestine, and to compare those results with the situation in Rwanda, where a different model of sustainable development was used to help the country recover from conflicts. The results suggest that the frequently used reconstruction model, based on security arrangements and economic benefit…
Conflict and Public Administration Performance
In the academic literature, there has yet to be a firm consensus on the type of link between conflict and public administration. This article investigates if/how conflict influences post-conflict public administration performance in selected conflict-affected states in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), namely Croatia, Georgia, Kosovo, and Serbia. However, the selected countries do not demonstrate a tangible global impact of conflict on public adm…
Devolution and the efficiency of cultural heritage preservation
This article analyzes the impact of devolution on the efficiency of regional museums in the Czech Republic, a country with a more than 40-year communist history. According to our results, devolution in the Czech Republic did not lead to increased efficiency, contrary to what the general theory of decentralization assumes. In our opinion, this situation is caused by path dependency, the frozen public administration reform, and the conservative app…
Central European Health Reform
The focus of this article is changes in Slovak health-care policy 1990-7. To place these changes in a comparative perspective we also examine recent Czech, Polish and Hungarian experiences. In the Slovak case we show that although there has been official support for privatization, decentralization, mixed sources of provision, accountability and individual choice, in practice progress towards these goals has been very slow. This relative immo bili…
Central European Health Reform
The focus of this article is changes in Slovak health-care policy 1990-7. To place these changes in a comparative perspective we also examine recent Czech, Polish and Hungarian experiences. In the Slovak case we show that although there has been official support for privatization, decentralization, mixed sources of provision, accountability and individual choice, in practice progress towards these goals has been very slow. This relative immo bili…
The Political Economy of Slovak and Czech Health Policy
After 1989, the Czech and Slovak health-care systems followed dissimilar policies. Change was faster, more profound and more experimental in the Czech Republic. But after 10 years there are clear similarities in their health status achievements and systemic problems. By showing how a common past and a similar insurance-based finance model interact with commitments to universal access, the common outcomes and problems are explained. It is argued t…
Health Policy in Slovakia and the Outcomes of Health Care Reforms
Slovak health policy and health outcomes since 1989 are described and analyzed. It is shown that health outcomes have improved during this period, but it is suggested that with a stronger financial base, and improved economic efficiency, more could be achieved. After the 1993 reforms the system moved from direct funding from the budget, to a mixed funding model. The most important funding source is health insurance. There are also some state budg…
Market-based health care reforms in Central and Eastern Europe
After 1989, all Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries implemented large-scale health care reforms. The changes differ among CEE countries, depending very much on the specific conditions present at the start of and during the processes. However, there are some common issues—most notably, the introduction of several market-based instruments, including introducing health insurance financing systems to replace general taxation-based models, pr…
The third sector and the provision of public services in Slovakia
Health policy in the Czech Republic
Transformation of the health care system was a task faced by all formerly socialist Central and Eastern European countries. The years of changes revealed a large number of problems, including those induced by the limited capacity of governments to formulate and implement health care reforms. The goal of this article is to reflect the Czech situation. We start by summarizing the historical development of the Czech health care system in the context…
Rethinking Nonprofit Commercialization
Some nonprofit economists tend to see nonprofit commercialization as a moral dilemma because commercial activities may secure organizational survival at the cost of undermining the mission orientation. The present paper argues that this type of moral framing of the commercialization debate is hardly adequate for the transitional context of the Czech nonprofit sector which is still struggling to develop its distinct institutional identity. Given t…
Factors and Determinants of the Quality of Public Administration in the CEE-Region
This chapter addresses the progress seen in PA research in Central and Eastern Europe. It does so by first describing the societal contexts with their problems, historical legacies and transformation during the last 25 years. Subsequently it addresses the professionalization of the civil service and other important dimensions of PA reforms in the region. The main conclusion is that, although huge differences are seen in the context of varying cou…
Martin Potůček – 70 years Laudation
Sciendo provides publishing services and solutions to academic and professional organizations and individual authors. We publish journals, books, conference proceedings and a variety of other publications
Devolution in the Czech and Slovak institutions of cultural heritage
This paper presents a comparative study of the impact of devolution on institutions in the area of cultural heritage in the Czech and Slovak Republics. Both states had formed a previous federation. After the break-up of the federation, public administration reforms with different trajectories took place in each state. In the Czech Republic, part of the museums was transferred from the authority of the ministries to the regions. This process, howe…
Public policy responses to the spread of Covid-19 as a potential factor determining health results
The goal of this paper is to identify critical factors in success/failure of public policies focusing on fighting the spread of COVID-19 pandemic using a sample of three countries from Central and Eastern Europe with different results regarding COVID-19 morbidity and mortality rates, namely the Czech Republic, the Russian Federation, and the Slovak Republic. Based on comprehensive literature review, three independent variables were worked out: th…
The Covid-19 pandemic and local government finance
Purpose The current Covid-19 crisis research focuses especially on epidemiologic and macro-level socioeconomic aspects. It only marginally covers impacts on local budgets. Our intention is to enrich the existing limited debate on this dimension. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses a qualitative research approach and is based on secondary research and information available in restrictive regulations of national governments, data published …
Public Administration in Conflict Affected Countries
The evolutionary trajectory of social enterprises in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
The paper contributes to the research on social enterprises. Based on historical institutionalism, we map the evolution of social enterprises in the Czech Republic and Slovakia after the collapse of communist rule. The findings indicate that the historical-evolutionary trajectories differ, despite their common path during the totalitarian regime. There is some convergence based on significant political changes that resulted mostly in the need to …
The Use of Diagnosis-Related Group-Based Reimbursement in the Czech Hospital Care System
(1) Background: Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRG), one possibility of a hospital payment system, are currently used in most European countries. Introduced to the Czech system in the 1990s, the DRGs are currently used mainly for care reporting and partly for reimbursement. According to most experts, the use of DRG remain controversial. The goal of this paper was to study the effects of the current Czech DRG system on hospitals financing and, on this …
Devolution and the efficiency of cultural heritage preservation
This article analyzes the impact of devolution on the efficiency of regional museums in the Czech Republic, a country with a more than 40-year communist history. According to our results, devolution in the Czech Republic did not lead to increased efficiency, contrary to what the general theory of decentralization assumes. In our opinion, this situation is caused by path dependency, the frozen public administration reform, and the conservative app…
Policy Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic and Potential Outcomes in Central and Eastern Europe
This article compares policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and their probable results in three countries: the Czech Republic, the Russian Federation, and the Slovak Republic. The article is based on a multiple case study method. It confirms that in the three countries studied, the timing of policy responses and the success in motivating compliance represent important critical factors in containing the pandemic. It discusses the innovative ex…
Autonomy and performance of local museums
This paper deals with the analysis of the impact of the autonomy of museums founded by municipalities in the Czech Republic on selected performance areas. On a sample of 180 museums founded by municipalities, comparisons were conducted for the period 2010–2016 on the performance of museums which are autonomous entities and museums that are part of the municipal authority. For the areas of performance, there was a focus on expositions, exhibitions…
International Trends in Participatory Budgeting
Item does not contain fulltext
A comparative analysis of the efficiency of public funding policies for sports in the European Union
This study examines the technical efficiency of sports funding policies in the European Union countries. It aims to identify the efficiency of European countries in achieving two public policy objectives for sports: supporting the population’s sporting activities and promoting sports representation, which is expressed by international sporting success. Additionally, the study aims to identify any statistical outliers within this group. Data envel…
Performance funding of universities and its impacts on accountability
Our goal was to analyse the effects of performance funding in the specific conditions of Czech and Slovak institutions of higher education, based on the assumption that the key motive for introducing performance funding is to increase accountability. The article confirms that NPM tools still co-exist with other reform trajectories and framings and provides a detailed explanation of how performance funding schemes work in financing higher educatio…
The Barriers to Green Public Procurement
The amount of academic literature related to green procurement is steadily growing. However, the number of relevant articles in the “post-socialist” region is still minimal, and existing articles focus mainly on the situation of the current European Union. Our goal was to investigate the barriers to green public procurement in two “pairs” of “post-socialist” countries (Czech Republic, Slovakia as developed countries and Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan …
Civil Society Versus Local Self‐Governments and Central Government in V4 Countries
In the new EU member states, there are very few studies analyzing the role of central and local self-governments in co-design processes. Nevertheless, such studies are particularly important as co-creation takes place in the context of former post-communist countries where central power reigned supreme and cooperation with the civil sector was very limited. This article aims to enrich the existing debate on the role of central and local self-gove…
Conflict and Public Administration Performance
In the academic literature, there has yet to be a firm consensus on the type of link between conflict and public administration. This article investigates if/how conflict influences post-conflict public administration performance in selected conflict-affected states in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), namely Croatia, Georgia, Kosovo, and Serbia. However, the selected countries do not demonstrate a tangible global impact of conflict on public adm…
Rebuilding Countries in a War and Post‐War Context
The aim of this study was to examine the results from the use of a model of reconstruction driven by security and economic concerns in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Palestine, and to compare those results with the situation in Rwanda, where a different model of sustainable development was used to help the country recover from conflicts. The results suggest that the frequently used reconstruction model, based on security arrangements and economic benefit…
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