VSFS:B_VVS Development of Public Admin. - Course Information
B_VVS Development of Public Administration
University of Finance and AdministrationSummer 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Guaranteed by
- prof. PhDr. Vladimír Čechák, CSc.
Department of Regional Development and Public Administration – Departments – University of Finance and Administration
Contact Person: Mgr. et Mgr. Kateřina Franců - Prerequisites
- There are no prerequisites for this course
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is offered to students of any study field.
- Course objectives
- This course gives basic information about the evolution of Czech system of public administration in the history of our state until today. The second semester is focused on the period beginning with the revolutionary year 1848 to the contemporaneity. At the end of the course student should be able to undestand logic of course of events and he should be able to evaluate the quality of nowadays administrative system in the comparison with historical models of public administration as well.
- Learning outcomes
- Upon completion of the course the student will know the basic development stages of public administration starting with 1848, the development of the structure of administrative bodies and its interdependence with social policy, changes in the public administration function and basic developmental changes in the area of administrative activities.
- Syllabus
- 1. Administration development in the Czech Lands 1848 – 1867. The revolutions of 1848, Bach’s absolutism, 1848 – 1850 administrative reform, 1855 administrative reform 2. Monarchy administration after 1867 – foundation of modern administration, December constitution 1867, administrative reform 1868, civil service and its transformations 3. The Czechoslovak Republic creation. Constitutional development, 1920 district law. 4. Administration in the Czechoslovak Republic 1927 – 1938. Administration law, boosting centralisation to the detriment of autonomy. 5. The year 1930, Munich Agreement and the Second Republic law. 6. Administration development in the time of submission I. 15 March 1939, occupied borderlands administration – Reichs district Sudetenland. 7. Administration development in the time of submission II, the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia administration, the Slovak Republic administration, Czechoslovak exiles and their ideas. 8. Development of administration in the time of the Czechoslovak democracy fall 1945 – 1949. Peoples’committees. Communist putsch 1948, NF action committees. 9. Administration 1949 – 1960. Administrative reform 1949. People’s committees transformation. 10. Administration 1960 – 1989. 1960 constitution, administrative reform 1960, 1968 changes, federalisation, normalisation, 1989 revolution. 11. Public administration transformation 1990 – 2000. Searching for a model for public administration, federation separation and creation of the independent Czech Republic. 12. Administrative reform 2000 – 2002, accession of the Czech Republic to the EU and its effect on the Czech public administration development.
- Literature
- required literature
- KOCOUREK, Ludomír. Správa v českých zemích a v Československu v letech 1848 - 2005. 1st ed. Praha: VŠFS, 2007, 134 pp. ISBN 978-80-86754-75-8. info
- ČECHÁK, Vladimír. Vývoj veřejné správy v Československu a České republice (1945 - 2004). Praha: VŠFS, 2004, 264 pp. ISBN 80-86754-22-7. info
- LACINA, Karel and Vladimír ČECHÁK. Vývoj systémů veřejné správy. Praha: Professional, 2001, 120 pp. ISBN 80-86419-13-4. info
- HLEDÍKOVÁ, Zdeňka, Jan JANÁK and Jan DOBEŠ. Dějiny správy v českých zemích : od počátků státu po současnost. Praha: NLN, Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2005, 568 s. ISBN 80-7106-709-1. info
- recommended literature
- CABADA, L. and K. VODIČKA. Český politický systém. Praha, 2003. info
- Hlavačka, M.: Zlatý věk české samosprávy. Samospráva a její vliv na hospodářský, sociální a intelektuální rozvoj Čech 1862 – 1913. Libri: Praha 2006
- „Sudety“ pod hákovým křížem, Albis international: Ústí n. L., 2002 (vybrané kapitoly k dějinám správy)
- Schelle, K.: Vývoj veřejné správy v letech 1918 – 1990, Eurolex Bohemia:Praha 2005
- Cohen, G. B., Společnost, politický život a vláda v pozdně imperiálním Rakousku: zamyšlení nad novou syntézou, Československý časopis historický (ČČH), roč. 102, 2004, č. 4, s. 745 – 785.
- Fasora, L. - Kladiva, P.: Obecní samospráva a lokální elity v českých zemích 1850 – 1918. Koncept a výsledky výzkumu, ČČH, roč. 102, 2004, č. 4, s. 796 – 827
- Vošahlíková, P.: Z moci úřední. Úřady a úředníci za vlády Františka Josefa I., ČČH, roč. 102, 1994, č. 3, s. 460 – 475.
- not specified
- Broklová, E.: Československá demokracie, Praha 1992
- Teaching methods
- Lectures in full-time study; tutorials in part-time study. Compulsory tutorial participation is 50% in part-time study.
- Assessment methods
- The course ends with credit in the form of a written test
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 12 hodin KS/semestr.
- Enrolment Statistics (Summer 2024, recent)
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