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Association: Name: ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES URL: http://www.isanet.org
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Duvanova, Dinissa. and Michalak, Katja. "Civil Service Reforms and Effective Governance: Chasing Evasive Targets in Eastern Europe" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES, Hilton San Francisco, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA, Mar 26, 2008 <Not Available>. 2008-08-19 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p252544_index.html>

Duvanova, D. S. and Michalak, K. (2008, Mar) "Civil Service Reforms and Effective Governance: Chasing Evasive Targets in Eastern Europe" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES, Hilton San Francisco, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA <Not Available>. 2008-08-19 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p252544_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: In the past years governance and civil service reforms have become the buss words in western policy research circles and political establishments of post-communist and third-world countries. Although such concepts have attracted a strong interest on the part of economists, political sociologists, and student of public administration, as well as organizational and financial support by a number of international development agencies, there remains to be conceptual and analytical confusion on what constitutes effective governance and, more importantly for the policy-making, what necessitates and directs reforms of civil cervices. This paper examines recent literature on civil service reforms addressing primarily, but not exclusively, challenges of governability faced by East European countries. We point to conceptual deficiency of this growing scholarly enterprise that largely failed to identify consistent sets of prerequisites, goals, and outcome targets of civil service reforms. Such conceptual clarity, however, is essential for the subject to become suitable for the methodologically sound cross-national and cross-agency comparative analysis. We illustrate failures of current scholarship addressing civil service reforms by using examples of how the preconditions, goals, and outcomes of real reform programs proposed and implemented throughout the region have deviated from the target of good governance underlining the majority of research projects on the subject. We conclude our critique by pointing to the promising directions in the empirical and theoretical research addressing civil service reforms and issues of governance in the developing and post-communist world.

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'Innocent Women and Children': Gender and Civilian Protection in International Society