01986pab a2200205 454500008004000000100001500040245008100055260000900136300001500145362000800160520136600168650001801534700001801552700002101570773005201591908000601643909001001649999001701659952010401676180718b2012   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aDoli, Dren  aThe post - independence civil service in Kosovo: A message of politicization  c2012  ap.665-691.  aDec  aThis contribution discusses the politicization of the civil service system in Kosovo as a framework through which politicians exert influence in the system. The article employs the concept of formal-political discretion, as a means of explaining and elucidating the extent to which both the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and current legislation regulating civil service preconditions/pre-favours the politicization of the senior civil service in Kosovo. It first discusses the concept of politicization based upon current scholarship and gives hints on the way in which these concepts fit with both UNMIK and Kosovoﾒs current situation. Next, the article discusses and compares the previous civil service system built by UNMIK with the current one ﾖ built in post-independence Kosovo based upon the formal-political discretion model. The article further argues that the former system of civil service ﾖ in contrast to the current system ﾖ provided less formal-political discretion to political elites with which to politicize the senior civil service. The article concludes by suggesting that the current post-independence legislation regulating the civil service grants the executive institutions a significant level of formal-political discretion in the appointment, dismissal and promotion of civil servants. - Repro  aCivil service  aRogova, Artan  aKorenica, Fisnik  aInternational Review of Administrative Sciences  aN  a98747  c98746d98746  00104070aIIPAbIIPAd2018-07-19hVolume no: 78, Issue no: 4pAR99207r2018-07-19w2018-07-19yAR