USESV0160 Theory of Public Administration

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Summer 2025
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Ing. Lucie Kamrádová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Lukáš Vomlela, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Martin Jemelka, Ph.D.
Institute of Central European Studies – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to introduce the issues of public administration, administrative discipline and politics, familiarization with basic theoretical approaches and concepts as well as main development trends of public administration systems in wider social connection. The emphasis will be put also on institutions in public administration, organizational principles and basic models of public administration on local, regional and state level, the creation of European administrative area and reforms of public administration in last decades. In connection, the processes of decision, evaluation and control in state administration and self- administration will be observed as well as administrative policy, personal and ethical issues in the frame of European Union and other countries (USA, Canada, Australia etc.) The tutorial will emphasise chosen issues of state thinking, public power and government, issues of local administration, regionalism and administrative reforms, bureaucracy and ethics in public administration in liberal democracies. The tuition will stress cross-disciplinary character of the course as well as the need of comparative approach and observation of social, juridical and political connections of public administration incidence. The students are able to orient in current administrative systems, institutions and processes, in principal documents and actions of public administration and self-administration in international merit.
Syllabus
  • 1. State, public administration and administrative discipline
    2. The changes of administrative discipline from renaissance till present day
    3. Organization of state, government and executive organs of state administration
    4. Social aspects of modern public administration
    5. Institutions and organizational structures in public administration
    6. Territorial organizations of modern state and European administrative area
    7. Local and regional administration
    8. Human factor in public administration
    9. Professional ethics and anti-corruption policies
    10. Public administration technology
    11. Theory, government and evaluation of public administration reforms
    12. Process of public administration reforms in liberal democracies
Literature
    required literature
  • HENDRYCH, D. a kol. Správní věda: teorie veřejné správy. Praha: ASPI, 2003. ISBN 80-86395-86-3. info
  • POMAHAČ, R. a VIDLÁKOVÁ, O. Veřejná správa. Praha: C. H. Beck, 2002. info
  • VLÁČIL, J. Veřejná správa: sociálně-psychologické problémy v historii a současnosti. Praha: Linde, 2002. info
  • FILIP, J. , SVATOŇ, J. a ZIMEK, J. Základy státovědy. 3. upravené a zkrácené vydání. Brno: MU, 2002. info
    recommended literature
  • CHAPMAN, R. A. (ed.). Etika ve veřejné správě pro nové tisíciletí. Praha: SLON, 2003. info
  • KLÍMA, K. Teorie veřejné moci (vládnutí). Praha: ASPI, 2003. ISBN 80-86395-78-2. info
  • POMAHAČ,R. a WIDEMANNOVÁ, M. Veřejná správa a evropská právní integrace. Praha: Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze Nakladate, 2002. info
  • ADAMOVÁ, K. a KŘÍŽKOVSKÝ, L. Dějiny myšlení o státě. Praha: ASPI Publishing, 2000. info
  • Vidláková, O. Reformy veřejné správy. Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2000. info
  • POMAHAČ, R. Průvodce veřejnou správou. Praha: ISV, 1999. ISBN 80-85866-42-0. info
  • CHANDLER, J. A. (ed.). Místní správa v liberálních demokraciích. Brno: Doplněk, 1998. info
  • SVATOŇ, J. Vládní orgán moderního státu. Jeho původ, vývoj a charakter v některých evropských státech. Brno: Doplněk, 1997. info
  • KELLER, J. Sociologie byrokracie a organizace. Praha: SLON, 1996. info
  • BECKER, B. Őffentliche Verwaltung. Percha: Schulz, 1989. info
Teaching methods
Interactive lecture
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
Lecture with a video analysis
Assessment methods
Written exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
Written exam in a form of a test should prove the students´ knowledge of issues, mentioned at lectures and contained in basic literature. The active participation in tutorials conditions the admittance to exam.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2012, Winter 2013, Winter 2014, Summer 2016, Summer 2017, Summer 2018, Summer 2019, Summer 2020, Summer 2021, Summer 2022, Summer 2023, Summer 2024.
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