Sigma Publications: Legal Administrative Framework, Civil Service and Justice

Legal Administrative Framework, Civil Service and Justice

Administrative Procedures and the Supervision of Administration in Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Estonia and Albania (Sigma Paper No. 17, 1997); French

Assessment of the Armenian Civil Service System (Sigma, 2010)

Assigning Competences and Functions to Local Self-Government in Four EU Member States: A Comparative Review (Salvador Parrado Diez, 2005)

Asset Declarations for Public Officials: A Tool to Prevent Corruption (OECD, 2011)

Attractiveness of Civil Service in the Western Balkans (ReSPA, 2009)

Attractiveness of the Public Service: A Matter of Good Public Governance (Francisco Cardona, June 2009)

Budgeting and Monitoring of Personal Costs (Sigma Paper No. 11, 1997); French

Building a Civil Service System (Francisco Cardona, 2002)

Checklist for a General Law on Administrative Procedures (Francisco Cardona, 2005)

Civil Service Legislation: Checklist on Secondary Legislation (Sigma Paper No. 14, 1997); French

Civil Service Legislation Contents Checklist (Sigma Paper No. 5, 1996); French

Civil Service Pension Schemes (Sigma Paper No. 10, 1997); French

Civil Service Pension Schemes (Sigma Policy Brief No. 2, Staffan Ekebrand, 1998)

Civil Service Training Systems in the Western Balkans Region (ReSPA, December 2008)

Classification and Career Development in the German Foreign Service (Anke Freibert, 2005); and related document British Foreign Office Personnel Rules (Andrew Levi, October 1998)

Conflict of Interest Policies and Practices in Nine EU Member States: A Comparative Review (Sigma Paper No. 36 Rev 1, 2006)

Country Profiles of Civil Service Training Systems (Sigma Paper No. 12, 1997); French

Drafting a Concept Paper on the Organisational Structure of the Executive's Public Administration (Francisco Cardona, 2008); also available in Russian

Effective Communications Between the Public Service and the Media (Sigma Paper No. 9, 1996); French

Federalism and the Balance of Power in European States (Michael Keating, 2006)

Les fonctions publiques des pays des cinquième et sixième élargissements de l'UE (French only -- Francisco Cardona, in "Perspective Gestions Publiques", Issue 37, March 2011)

Improving Customer Orientation through Service Charters (Czech Ministry of Interior/Sigma, January 2007)

Law Drafting and Regulatory Management in Central and Eastern Europe (Sigma Paper No. 18, 1997); French

Liabilities and Discipline of Civil Servants (Francisco Cardona, 2003)

The Management of the Civil Service: European Models (Francisco Cardona, April 2009)

Modernising the Civil Service (Francisco Cardona, June 2009)

Organising the Central State Administration: Policies and Instruments (Sigma Paper No. 43, 2007)

Performance-based Arrangements for Senior Civil Servants OECD and other Country ExperiencesFrench (Gov Working Paper 2007/5, July 2007)

Performance Related Pay in the Public Service in OECD and EU Member States (Francisco Cardona, 2006); Related Gov publication (2005)

Policy Options for Central Governments to Promote Equal Access to Better Services at Local Level: Some European Approaches (Salvador Parrado Diez, 2005)

Political Advisors and Civil Servants in European Countries (Sigma Paper No. 38, 2006)

Promoting Performance and Professionalism in the Public Service (Sigma Paper No. 21, 1997); FrenchRelated Document

Public Opinion Surveys as Input to Administrative Reform (Sigma Paper No. 25, 1998); French

Public Service Training Systems in OECD Countries (Sigma Paper No. 16, 1997); French

The Right to Open Public Administrations in Europe: Emerging Legal Standards (Sigma Paper No. 46, 2010)

Saving the State Again: Turks Face the Challenge of European Governance (Kivanç Ulusoy, Seminar on Public Administration Reform & EU Integration, Ankara, 1-2 February 2005)

Structural Elements for Recruitment in European Civil Service Systems (Francisco Cardona, 1998)

Sustainability of Civil Service Reforms in Central and Eastern Europe Five Years After Accession (Sigma Paper No. 44, 2009)

Top Management Service in Central Government: Introducing a System for the Higher Civil Service in Central and Eastern European Countries (Sigma Paper No. 1, 1995); French

Training Civil Servants for Internationalisation (Sigma Paper No. 3, 1996); French


A wider selection of publications can be found in our website library or by country, or you may go to the Directorate for Public Governance and Territorial Development (Gov) homepage.

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