153-0449/01 – Public Administration (VESP)
| Gurantor department | Department of Public Economics | Credits | 4 |
| Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Petr Tománek, CSc. | Subject version guarantor | doc. Ing. Petr Tománek, CSc. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 2 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2009/2010 | Year of cancellation | 2012/2013 |
| Intended for the faculties | EKF | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Graduates are able to:
– classify and characterize fundamentals and forms of public administration,
– identify subjects of public administration including their mission,
– define and explain organization of public administration on relevant territorial levels,
– define social, economic, geographical, historical and legal consequences of public administration existence,
– differentiate and clarify the meaning and function of state and territorial self-government.
Teaching methods
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Summary
Public administration as a subject follows knowledge that students obtained in subject of Public economics and administration. Structure and content of this subject is specialized on deepening of basic knowledge on development, conditions and system of public administration on the state, regional and local level in the Czech Republic. It also covers selected issues of public administration – people, information, control.
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Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Active participation on seminars – performing given.
E-learning
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Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. History and development of public administration in the area of the Czech republic. Scientific foundations of public administration, resources for study of public administration.
2. Types of states and models of public administration. State and Constitution. Constitutional order. Legal order.
3. Legislative power. Organization and meetings of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, legislation system, control role of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, legislative process.
4. Executive power – president, government, central and national organs of state administration.
5. Judicial power – court system. State administration in conditions of judicial institutions. Constitutional Court.
6. Spatial structure and territorial-administrative division of the state. Residential structure, basic territorial units.
7. Territorial organs of state administration. Mixes model of performance of local government.
8. Self-government – structure, background and characteristics of self-government – interest self-government, territorial self-government. Higher territorial self-government units.
9. Basic territorial self-government. Municipal government and its historical development in the Czech republic since 1848. Current organization and role of local governments.
10. Function posts in public administration – requirements and ways of staffing (election, designation, delegation). Electoral systems.
11. Employees in public administration – competences, responsibility and authority, development and education, ethic codes in public administration, human resources management.
12. Role and importance of information in public administration – typology of information, information compulsory published, free access to information.
13. E-government – development, instruments, systems, legislative conditions.
14. Importance, role and system of control in public administration. Lay and professional control. Ombudsman.
Conditions for subject completion
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Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction