Civil Service Development in Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS: A Perfect Storm?

Earlier stock-taking work on civil service system development in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of independent States (CIS) (Verheijen, 1999) showed a move from a relative similarity of approach in the early 1990s, when all transition states struggled to overcome the legacy of politicized and discredited state administrations, to a much more divergent pattern that emerged from the start of the last decade. The three factors identified that determined the civil service development path taken were proximity to the EU (and likelihood of EU membership), vision on the role of the state and model of political governance