Public Sector Performance in a New Democratic State: The Hungarian Case

Commission on Progress towards Accession, Hungary (1999) Regular Report, 13 October. Brussels: EEC.

European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (1999) ‘Governance in Transition’, in Transition Report 1999, Ten Years of Transition, pp. 118–129. London: European Bank of Reconstruction and Development.

Feinstein, Charles (1990) Historical Precedents for Economic Change in Central Europe and the USSR. Boston/Oxford: Credit Suisse First Boston/Oxford Analytica.

Gallup-Hungary (1999b) Public Opinion Survey on Public Perceptions on Public Servants. Budapest: Gallup-Hungary.

Gallup-Hungary (1993, 1997, 1999a, 2000a) Public Opinion Surveys on Public Trust. Budapest: Gallup-Hungary.

Gallup-Hungary (2000b) Public Opinion Survey on Perception of Public Institutions and Experiences of Client Situations, April. Budapest: Gallup-Hungary.

Jelenkutató Intézet (1998) The Public Opinion of Cities (Hungarian). Budapest: Jelenkutató Intézet.

Jenei, György (1999a) ‘Establishment of an Independent, Neutral Civil Service in the Former Socialist Countries of Central and Eastern Europe’, in Mihály Simai (ed.) The Democratic Process and the Market Challenges of the Transition, pp. 60–74. Tokyo: The United Nations University.

Jenei, György (1999b) ‘Public Service Management and the Transition Process in Hungary’, in Dietmar Bräunig and Dorothea Greiling (eds) Stand und Perspektiven der Öffentlichen Betriebswirtschaftslehre, pp. 128–137. Berlin: Arno Spitz.

Jenei, György and Zsuffa, István (1999) ‘Civil Servants and State Administration in Hungary’, OECD/SIGMA Country Report on Hungary Research Project. Paris: OECD/SIGMA.

König, Klaus (1992) ‘The Transformation of a “Real Socialist” Administrative System into a Conventional Western European System’, International Review of Administrative Sciences 58: 147–161.

Löffler, Elke (1997) The Modernization of the Public Sector in an International Comparative Perspective. Speyer: Speyerer Forschungsberichte.

Marketing Centrum (1999) A Politikai Közvélemény (Results of a Public Opinion Survey). Budapest: Marketing Centrum Országos Piackutató Intézet.

Medián (2000) ‘National Opinion Poll–September 2000’, Medián Opinion and Market Research Ltd. Budapest.

OECD (1999) Administrative Law Principles and Civil Service Standards: Support for Improvement in Governance and Management in Central and Eastern European Countries. Paris: OECD-SIGMA.

Pollitt, Christopher and Bouckaert, Geert (2000) Public Management Reform—A Comparative Analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Szonda, Ipsos (1996) Az értelmiségi szakmák presztízse (Results of a Public Opinion Survey). Budapest: Szonda Ipsos.

World Bank (1997) The State in a Changing World. World Development Report. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Zupkó, Gábor (1999) ‘Modernization of the Hungarian Public Sector—Contracting out and Performance Measurement at Local Governments’, Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the EGPA, 1999.