The article investigates the divide between research and practice in public management. The article does not discuss the advice-giving role of academia which has been dealt with by other authors. Instead, it focuses on gaining an understanding of its core business: research and teaching. The...

A general trend is easily observable in the literature on public administration reforms in post-communist countries and it consists in analyses of the degree of adoption and success of the New Public Management (NPM) model. A relevant implementation gap for some areas of reform which cannot be...

<title>Abstract</title> This article investigates the contribution of public administration (PA) reforms to sustainable development, with particular reference to countries in transition. The case study of Albania is analysed with a specific focus on the scope, contents and sequence of reforms as well as on the...

The primary aim of this chapter is to offer an overview of corruption and state capture in Albanian public administration and to describe the solutions adopted to fight corruption by the government since 1998. Conflict of interest is a new aspect of concern in the policy agendas. OECD countries...

This report builds on the 2021 study on evidence-informed policy making (EIPM) for SG REFORM. Both reports are based on the notion that accessing and applying science-based knowledge improves the quality of the policy process, within the context of other forces that shape policy debates and...