International journal of public policy addresses public policy issues facing nation states and national/supranational organisations, including governments, and how these approach and solve common public policy problems. It highlights governance, accountability, creation of wealth/wellbeing, and implications policy choices have on nation states and citizens, acknowledging that public policy choice/execution is complex, has ramifications on the welfare of citizens, and that, despite national differences, the actions of nation states are constrained by policies determined by supranational bodies, some not directly accountable to any international body. The journal is indexed in Scopus (Elsevier).
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COBISS.SI-ID: 522116889Transparency is a key principle of good governance and contemporary public administration and the basis for a democratic and efficient exercise of public authority and public services. The paper addresses this principle and its executive rights to information in Slovenia, as conceptualised in theory and legislation, particularly the Freedom of Information Act (adopted in 2003) and the General Administrative Procedure Act and their implementation in Slovenian administrative practice and case law. The concept is elaborated by theoretical and empirical research. The results reveal that transparency is highly acknowledged in Slovenia, both at regulatory and implementation levels. The latter has been developed mainly through the independent Information Commissioner as an appeal body and the prescribed procedure of legal protection. However, there are some open issues to be tackled by further research and consistent case law, such as the definition of different rights to information and their relations, which entities are bound by law to disclose information to specific beneficiaries, and the scope and basis for exceptions from primary openness.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 4860590The paper was motivated by the fact that human resource management (furthermore: HRM) has long been recognised as a critical innovation performance factor. Yet, the link between HRM and innovation performance has been given much less attention in some sectors, the public sector in particular. Therefore, we defined our research question as follows: which are the key HRM factors of innovative EU-28 public sector organisations? The answer to the research question was sought in three phases. The first phase of the research consisted of data acquisition. We used anonymised microdata from the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS), covering 28 EU member countries. In the 2nd phase, by applying some of the less known EWCS indicators, the EU-28 sample was divided into two groups: innovators (public sector units, which have introduced at least one technological or at least one non-technological novelty during the last 3 years) and non-innovators (public sector units, which did not introduce any technological or non-technological novelties). Finally, in the 3rd phase, the aim of the study was achieved by applying a t-test, identifying in which HRM factors (management support, employee cooperation, training, recruitment/suitability of competencies, changes and innovation within work, job satisfaction, wages) the groups of innovators and non-innovators significantly differ. The research findings suggest that innovative public sector organisations are devoting significantly more attention to the majority of HRM factors than their non-innovative counterparts. Consequently, HRM is indicated as a critical factor, fostering innovation performance in public sector organisations. This efficient use of human resources proves especially important due to resource limitations, an implication of the financial and economic crisis.
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