Public Administration Reform in the Slovak republic and Other Related reforms – Taking Lessons of the Other EU Countrie

Abstract

The Slovak Republic as one of the transitive economics had implemented several reforms in the beginning of the 21st century. One of them, perhaps the widest, was the public administration reform, which includes also other partial reforms as public finance reform and tax reform. To complete all the reforming efforts the process of fiscal decentralization was realized in 2005. The fiscal decentralization touched the public budgets also on the revenue and expenditure part and directly referred to public administration reform realized in 2001 and tax reform realized in 2004. The aim of this paper is to describe the process of the reforms´ system changes implementation and to evaluate their impact on public finance with the accent on lower government levels´ financing and administration.