TRANSPORTATION OF THE VISEGRAD FOUR: POTENTIAL INGREDIENTS FOR SYSTEM CHANGE |
Donald E. Fuller Abstract
Yehezhel Dror argues that government, as now constituted, is a failure. Many would agree. His proposition for transformation resembles Havelian transcendence: largely a top-down concept. The paper examines his thesis and its appropriateness for the Visegrad Four, if not wider. Using secondary sources, and the Visegrad Four as the units of analysis, the purpose is to dissect governance capacities, incentives, and plausible transforming characteristics to evaluate Dror’s prescription for transforming governments from favoring raison d’etat to raison d’ humanite (humanity). The paper evaluates according to three possible outcomes: strong possibility, very little possibility, and partial possibility.
* I thank the anonymous reviewer for providing constructive comments. This is a slightly revised version of a paper presented to the 15th Network of Institutes and Schools of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe (NISPAcee) Annual Conference, May 17-19, 2007, Kiev, Ukraine.
Ph.D. Donald E. Fuller is Senior lecturer at Anglo-American University in Prague, Czech Republic.
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Fuller Donald E.. Transportation of the Visegrad four: Potential ingredients for system change. Innovative Issues and Approaches in Social Sciences, vol.2, no.1:4-40, DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.12959/issn.1855-0541.IIASS-2009-no1-art01
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