Contracting out local public services in Slovakia

In our paper, we focus on how local self-governments perform in the delivery of local public services to citizen. The paper is based on concrete data, collected from 200l to 2008 by our research team, including following services--waste collection and disposal, street maintenance, public green, public lighting, cemeteries. Local self-governments are responsible for a large number of public services and their share in total public expenditures is almost 7%. However, our concrete data for evaluated services clearly show that large decentralization did not deliver immediate results and much remains to be done to improve the processes of local service delivery. The problems are not so much connected with existing legislation, but the core issue is the quality and effectiveness of functioning of all involved institutions. Outsourcing decisions are not well ex-ante reviewed, neither ex-post comprehensively evaluated for their outcomes and results. In many cases, competitive tendering is not used to get the best bid. The main purposes for such situation are lack of accountability and compliance control, the most important corrective measures are proposed in the last part of the paper.     

STRATEGIES AND RESPONSES TO PLAGIARISM IN SLOVAKIA

The rapid increase in the number of higher education institutions （HEI）, students, accessibility to information and communication technology （ICT） and internet penetration after 1989 and a low level of copyright and intellectual property rights awareness contributed to the growth of plagiarism at HEIs in Slovakia. In 2008, the Ministry of Education decided to establish a common national repository for bachelor, master, dissertation, rigorous and habilitation theses. The amendment to the ttEI Act dated 2009 stipulates that every thesis or dissertation of a HEI operating under the Slovak legal order shall be sent to the central repository and undergo the originality check before it is defended. The originality check of every new thesis is made against the national repository, as well as against other resources, primarily the internet ones. From 2010 to the end of March 2013, more than 235 thousand theses and dissertations have gone through this process. The quality of the solution （organisational and technical） meets the expectations and has a positive impact on the academic community. This paper describes the implementation of the Central Repository of Theses and Dissertations and of the Plagiarism Detection System into practice and the experience from their operation. ]t also analyses the impacts of the implementation on HEIs, feedback and reactions of the academia and the public, and provides recommendations regarding the prevention and detection of plagiarism. It also addresses the growth in the number of internet texts and texts in media containing the term plagi6torstvo （plagiarism） and the growth of search hits （search frequency） for this term in the period 2002-2012.     

论冷战后斯洛伐克政党竞争的特征

冷战结束后,由于受到民族主义倾向的影响,斯洛伐克特殊的政治生态导致了＂民主斯洛伐克运动＂这一政党的长期执政,其他左翼政党和右翼政党则长期处于与＂民主斯洛伐克运动＂对峙的地位。随着人们在社会经济问题和价值观上的分裂日益突出,21世纪初的斯洛伐克政党竞争逐渐显示出左右翼政党轮流执政的趋势。     

旧雨新知齐向前共谱友好新华章——全国政协副主席、中国国际交流协会副会长王志珍访问德国、塞尔维亚和斯洛伐克散记

2009年11月21日一12月4日．应德国艾伯特基金会、塞尔维亚议会外委会和斯洛伐克国际关系协会的邀请，全国政协副主席、中国国际交流协会副会长王志珍率领交流协会代表团访问了德国、塞尔维亚和斯洛伐克，与三国政要畅叙双边关系的发展，同三国学者研讨经济复苏的前景，和三国民间人士谋划未来交流合作的计划。     

捷克反腐拟设特工

2007年8月29日，捷克政府宣布，为打击日益严重的官员腐败现象，政府提议设立“反腐特工”，允许他们通过秘密活动获取政府官员的腐败证据。     

捷克政党政治演变的基本特点

在剧变后捷克政党政治演变过程中,有三个引人注目的特点:一是公民民主党作为东欧地区不多见的成熟的右翼政党,力量强大,长期主导本国政坛;二是捷克社会民主党成为东欧地区在本国左翼阵营中充当主导力量的重建社会党;三是捷克和摩拉维亚共产党作为"共产主义后继党"坚持不改名易帜,并成为东欧地区在本国政坛具有一定影响力的共产主义政党.这三个基本特点,是捷克政治发展中多种因素共同作用的结果.     

将军大使谭希林上任记

谭希林(1908.02-1970.02),湖南省长沙市人.1925年加入中国共产主义青年团,1926年转入中国共产党,同年入黄埔军校.北伐战争中,任国民革命军叶挺独立团排长,武汉革命政府警卫团排长.     

捷共丧失执政地位的原因及后果——访中国原驻捷克斯洛伐克大使严鹏

记者:前段时期独联体国家不断发生“颜色革命”。学术界在解释“颜色革命”这一概念时,都认同是从捷克斯洛伐克“天鹅绒革命”开始的。捷克斯洛伐克发生剧变时,您正在我国驻捷克斯洛伐克大使馆任政务参赞,可以说是目睹了捷克斯洛伐克剧变的全过程。作为亲历者,请您谈谈“天鹅绒     

第55届国际货币基金组织和世界银行年会综述

被称为世界金融界奥林匹克大会的第55届国际货币基金组织和世界银行年会9月26日-28日在捷克首都布拉格召开。参加此次年会的有包括中国在内的182个国家的财政部长和中央银行行长以及约18000名金融界人士。     

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