Investigating public governance models in Slovenia and Japan : a comparative survey on state and local government

Aristovnik, Aleksander (author), Hiroko, Kudo (author), Murko, Eva (author), Sugawa, Tadateru (author), Ravšelj, Dejan (author)

Public administration and governance must adapt to the changing socio-economic environment, improving quality, process efficiency, and collaboration. Hence, public administration and public governance models have been significantly modified multiple times, resulting in differences in public governance practices. This paper examines different public governance models’ principles in Slovene and Japanese public administration. It quantifies elements based on the models' principles and applies them to an empirical case using a survey of 55 Slovene and 135 Japanese public managers. The independent samples t-test examines the differences in characteristics of public governance practices between state administration and local government in Slovenia and Japan. The results show that state administration institutions in both countries are strongly characterised by the (Neo)Weberian model’s principles, while Slovenia's local government leans towards Digital-era governance (DEG) and good governance (GG) principles. Japan's state and local administrations show equal presence of New public management (NPM), DEG, and GG models. The study aims to bridge a research gap by providing new findings on how different public governance models can be found at various Slovene and Japanese public administration levels and offers insights for public managers and policymakers for future public administration reforms.

• Language: English
• Keywords: public governance models, comparative analysis, Slovenia, Japan
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FU - Faculty of Administration
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2023
• Number of pages: Str. 6-25
• Numbering: Iss. 41
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-152809
• UDC: 35(497.4)(520)
• ISSN on article: 2559-6489
• DOI: 10.24818/amp/2023.41-01
• COBISS.SI-ID: 176370179
• Publication date in RUL: 07.12.2023

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Administraţie şi management public
• Shortened title: Adm. manag. public
• Publisher: Editura ASE
• ISSN: 2559-6489
• COBISS.SI-ID: 134947843

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: modeli javnega upravljanja, primerjalna analiza, Slovenija, Japonska