Public Administration and Society 1/2024

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Igor Palúš - Ondrej Mitaľ - Vladimíra Žofčinová

Peer-reviewed proceedings from an international scientific conference organized on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Faculty of Public Administration at Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, held on November 15, 2018, in Košice

On November 15, 2018, an international scientific conference titled "Public Administration in a Current Democratic and Legal State" was held at the Faculty of Public Administration of Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice.

This scientific event, attended by more than 60 experts from domestic and foreign universities and faculties, as well as representatives of various institutions from the public administration environment, marked the 20th anniversary of the Faculty of Public Administration. The first part of the conference took place in a plenary session, and the second part continued with discussions in four sections, whose names align with the priority scientific orientation of the faculty's departments. At the plenary session, as well as in the professional sections, many content-rich and thought-provoking presentations were delivered, which undoubtedly contribute to further developing the theory of public administration in general and to developing partial scientific themes addressed by the faculty's departments in particular.

The scientific conference was characterized by a working atmosphere, a cultivated scientific and professional environment, with numerous discussions among participants related to current issues and problems in public administration, as well as formulating proposals for further cooperation in the field of science and education. The Faculty will publish a peer-reviewed scientific proceedings from the conference, which will have two parts due to the large number of active participants. The first part includes three presentations from the plenary session corresponding to the content of contributions that were presented during the discussions in sections guaranteed by the Department of Public Policy and Theory of Public Administration and the Department of Public Law Disciplines. The second part includes two presentations from the plenary session that are content-wise related to the discussions in sections guaranteed by the Department of Social Sciences and the Department of Economics and Public Administration Management.

Thanks are due to all active participants in the scientific conference, as well as those who were involved in its preparation and organization.

prof. JUDr. Igor Palúš, CSc.
 Chairman of the Organizing Committee

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Darina Koreňová

This university textbook is primarily intended for students of the Faculty of Public Administration of the Pavel Jozef Šafárik University in Košice. It can also be a relevant source of information for students of other faculties or departments with a focus on public administration, public finance, and public sector economics.The textbook can be not only a teaching material for higher education, but also as a useful tool for the professional public. Employees of state administration and local self-government, non-profit and private sector entities can use the knowledge from it in everyday practice.

The textbook is divided into seven chapters. The aim of the textbook is to clarify in a comprehensible way basic concepts such as fiscal federalism, fiscal decentralization, local government budget, its revenues, and expenditures.The textbook explains to the reader the financing of important areas of the economy, such as education, health, and transport.

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Gabriela Kravčáková

Publication of Human Resources Management is draw up as a university textbook designed especially for students of field of Public Administration. The intention of the authors was to develop the problem areas of personal management comprehensively. Texts were made on the basis of current theoretical knowledge in the field of human resources, research results, as well as monitoring of practice.

The text provides theoretical knowledge so that the reader could learn basic terminology, the organization and the role of human resources management, personal functions and understand that the theoretical and application-level knew used the method personal management. University Textbooks are 9 separate chapters focusing on individual personal actions (personal planning, design and redesign of job, acquisition candidates to occupy the job and work for the organization, selection of candidates, employee evaluation, employee mobility, compensation of employees) and contribution of human resource management to the success of the organization.

Each chapter contains a task-oriented organization of public administration, the situation applied in practice and questions for repeats. University Textbooks may serve not only as a teaching material for higher education, but also as a useful tool for the professional public.

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Stanislav Konečný

This university textbook is the most extensive publication on the theory of public administration in Slovakia to date. In the introductory chapters, after clarifying the basic relations with other sciences, it gives an overview of what all the authors from Plato to today have dealt with, examining the subject from philosophical, theological, legal, economic, organizational, managerial, psychological, sociological and political science perspectives, and on the basis of which it is possible to formulate a demand for public administration to become legitimate, costeffective, flexible, comprehensible, open, participatory and democratic, and for its theory to be truly interdisciplinary. In the chapter on the actors of public administration, attention is paid not only to the state administration at all levels, but also to local, special interest and special interest selfgovernments, other public corporations and institutions and other actors of public administration, but also, in a framework, to providers of public services. The final chapter is devoted to public administration transformations and reforms. All the chapters are based on a rich factual literature, both domestic and foreign. The publication is supplemented by a list of references, containing more than 500 titles by domestic but mainly foreign authors. In this way, the textbook can be a welcome source of information and suggestions for the wider professional public.

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