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"The success and fate of governments around the globe is not only based on the success of political leaders, but also on the top civil servants who lead the apparatus of government. Given the enormous tasks of leading society and changing the culture of government itself, the training and retraining of top civil servants is vital. This important collection is a one-of-a-kind study that not only provides information about the where, what, and how of the training of top civil servants around the world, butalso offers up-to-date cultural, political, economic background on both larger countries such as the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany, and also smaller countries such as Colombia, Namibia, and Belgium. It explores in detail the factors that result in different country perceptions of the importance of executive training, and the reasons for the variations in its quality and robustness"--
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Introduction: Understanding the Role and Context of Senior Civil Servant Training; Montgomery Van Wart and Annie Hondeghem PART I: TRAINING CIVIL SERVANTS IN ANGLO-AMERICAN COUNTRIES 1. Australia; John Haligan 2. The United Kingdom Sylvia Horton and Montgomery Van Wart 3. The United States of America Heather Getha-Taylor PART II: TRAINING CIVIL SERVANTS IN EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES 4. Estonia; Külli Sarapuu, Merilin Metsma, Tiina Randma-Liiv and Annika Uudelepp 5. Hungary; Márk Gál and Márton Gellén 6. Romania; Cristina Hin?eaTudor ?icl?u PART III: TRAINING SENIOR CIVIL SERVANTS IN GERMANIC AND NORTHERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES 7. Austria; Isabell Egger-Peitler, Monika Knassmüller, Renate Meyer 8. Belgium; Annie Hondeghem, Christian de Visscher, Maxime Petit Jean, and Silke Ruebens 9. Denmark; Bente Bjørnholt, Morten Balle Hansen 10. Finland; Turo Virtanen 11. Germany; Werner Jann and Sylvia Veit 12. The Netherlands; Trui Steen, Caspar van den Berg and Peter Leisink 13. Switzerland; Adrian Ritz and Leonie Schüssler PART IV; TRAINING SENIOR CIVIL SERVANTS IN LATIN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES 14. France; Alexandra Couston, Joyce Liddle and Robert Fouchet 15. Italy; Denita Cepiku, Alessandro Hinna and Sandro Mameli PART V: TRAINING CIVIL SERVANTS IN OTHER COUNTRIES 16. Columbia; Pablo Sanabria and Claudia N. Avelleneda 17. Namibia; Erwin Schwella, Yrika Maritz, Michael Conteh and Elsie Nghikembua 18. South Africa; Peter E. Franks 19. South Korea; Sangmook Kim Conclusions: Understanding the Reasons for the Difference in Importance, Quantity and Quality of SCS Training; Montgomery Van Wart and Annie Hondeghem
About the author
Claudia N Avellaneda, Indiana University, USA
Bente Bjørnholt, Danish Institute for Local and Regional Government Research, Denmark
Denita Cepiku, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Michael Conteh, Namibian Institute of Public Administration and Management (NIPAM), Namibia
Alexandra Couston, Aix Marseille Université, France
Christian de Visscher, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium
Isabell Egger-Peitler, WU Vienna, Austria
Robert Fouchet, Aix Marseille Université, France
Peter E. Franks, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Mark Gal, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary and Babes Bolyai University, Romania
Marton Gellen, National University of Public Service, Hungary
Heather Getha-Taylor, University of Kansas, USA
John Halligan, University of Canberra, Australia
Morten Balle Hansen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Alessandro Hinna, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Cristina Hintea, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
Sylvia Horton , Honorary Principal Lecturer, University of Portsmouth, UK
Werner Jann, University of Potsdam, Germany
Sangmook Kim, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, South Korea
Monika Knassmüller, WU Vienna, Austria
Peter Leisink, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Joyce Liddle, Aix Marseille Université, France
Sandro Mameli, National School of Administration, Italy
Yrika Maritz, Namibian Institute of PublicAdministration and Management (NIPAM), Namibia
Merilin Metsma, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Renate E. Meyer, WU Vienna, Austria
Elsie Nghikembua, Namibian Institute of Public Administration and Management (NIPAM), Namibia
Maxime Petit Jean, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium
Tiina Randma-Liiv, Professor, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Adrian Ritz, Professor, University of Bern, Switzerland
Silke Ruebens, PhD candidate, KU Leuven, Belgium
Pablo Sanabria, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
Külli Sarapuu, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Leonie Schüssler, University of Bern, Switzerland
Trui Steen, Leiden University, the Netherlands and Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Tudor Ticlau, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
Caspar van den Berg, Leiden University, the Netherlands
Sylvia Veit, University of Potsdam, Germany
Annika Uudelepp, Praxis Centre for Policy Studies, Estonia
Turo Virtanen, University of Helsinki, Finland
