In our thesis we analyse the field of government departments from the year 2000 to 2019 with a particular focus on the issue of their establishing and suspending. Government departments are crucial for the performance of the government and the prime minister since they are established in order to provide organizational, expert and other support to the government at performing its functions.
Government has a possibility to establish and suspend most of government departments, therefore the main objective of our thesis was to examine the institutional dynamics of that area, which government departments were established and operated throughout the examined period, from the year 2000 to 2019, and which were suspended, transformed or modified. By implementing various research methods we established that the number of government departments was steadily decreasing; consequently, the gathered and analysed data indicate that the number of personnel employed in government departments was decreasing as well. However, the reduction of government employees does not mean a reduction in the number of all employees which are ment as a support for the government, as some employees were transferred to other administrative bodies during the reorganization.
Given the responsibilities and the number of government departments and the number of employees in those departments we can therefore safely conclude that currently the government of The Republic of Slovenia has established only those government departments that are absolutely essential for its successful performance.
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