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Political science and the perception of time: Cyclical rotation between the present-centric and the historical perspective
94-130.Views:31In the first part of the two-part study the author posits that it is an exciting challenge for political
science to take stock of the scientific paradigms of the past 50 years based on their perspective
of time. The study looks at the past 50 years solely based upon the perception of time and
highlights the four paradigms deemed the most important: political development, transitology,
new historicism, and the school of American Political Development (APD). The study reviews the
authors representative of each paradigm and the most important elements of their arguments. Political scientists were susceptible to the historical perspective between the 1960s and the 80s. Later on, during the 90s until the mid-2000s the perspective for interpretation became
the present. In the last decade however, it seems that the interest in historical perspectives has
returned. The author concludes that a cyclical rotation can be demonstrated within political
science between the two perspectives, the logic of which would be advisable to study. -
Public administration reforms in Central-Eastern-Europe
124-142Views:64The goal of this paper is in one hand to summarize how public administration reform trends
have spread in Central-Eastern-Europe since the transition, on the other hand to overview the
techno-economical paradigms which can determine the near future in the region. To analyse
spreading and development of New Public Management to Post-NPM doctrines periodization of
Drechsler and Randma-Liiv (2014) is being used. At the end threads and opportunities related
to technological development are aimed to be found in relation with public administration and
governance. Using entrepreneurial state’s concept shows that solving wicked issues needs active
state’s involvement, which might have a strong effect on public administration’s reform as well.
