Research Interests

Autonomy, control and structural dynamics in central government agencies; comparative public management reforms; policy failures and policy capacity; administrative culture and administrative traditions

Selected Publications

Studying dynamics of government agencies: Conceptual and methodological results of a Hungarian organizational mapping exercise. International Journal of Public Administration 2012/12.

Hungary. In Koen Verhoest et al (eds.): Government Agencies Practices and Lessons from 30 Countries. Basingstoke: Palgrave. 2012. 288-299.

Adminisztratív politika a 2000-es évtizedben: Az ügynökség típusú államigazgatási szervek strukturális dinamikája 2002 és 2009 között. Politikatudományi Szemle 2011/3. 54-74.
 
Special Issue: Agencies in Central and Eastern Europe (co-authors: Tiina Randma-Liiv, Vitalis Nakrošis). Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences 2011.
 
Public sector organization in Central and Eastern Europe: from agencification to de-agencification (co-authors: Tiina Randma-Liiv, Vitalis Nakrošis). Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences 2011.
 
Agencies and the politics of agencification in Hungary. Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences 2011.

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Research Projects

COCOPS - Coordinating for Cohesion in the Public Sector of the Future www.cocops.eu
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ESF COST Action LocRef: Local Public Sector Reforms: An International Comparison
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OTKA project #106333: The structural dynamics of Hungarian central government agencies