Conflict and Public Administration Performance: CEE Countries

Abstract

In the academic literature, there has yet to be a firm consensus on the type of link between conflict and public administration. This article investigates if/how conflict influences post-conflict public administration performance in selected conflict-affected states in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), namely Croatia, Georgia, Kosovo, and Serbia. However, the selected countries do not demonstrate a tangible global impact of conflict on public administrative performance. This finding suggests that a “one-size-fits-all” global link between conflict and public administration performance does not exist. From this perspective, a country’s actual circumstances and the internal and external environment are the deciding factors.