Research topic proposals
A) Social protection function
- pandemic, COVID situation management, restrictions and experiences;
- access to information, personal data protection;
- environmental protection vs. Green Deal;
- new systems for state public service provision.
B) Function ensuring state defense
- foreign affairs administration, international cooperation system;
- border protection tasks;
- relationship between state sovereignty and European cooperation, centralized or localized EU;
- the question of the priority of EU law as a sovereignty issue;
- national security vs. freedom of speech.
C) Function ensuring the financial basis of the state
- state tax policies in times of war or social crisis;
- taxes and types of taxes during crisis periods;
- public payment systems;
- monetary tasks, inflationary effects;
- finances and budgeting of local governments and their challenges;
- local taxes and local government autonomy.
D) Function ensuring the operation of the state
- challenges of electoral systems, e-voting systems;
- freedom of expression and administrative interventions; fake news, social media, etc.;
- personal data protection in public administration;
- e-administration;
- regulation of public procurement.
E) Economic administration function
- administrative challenges of state economic policy;
- challenges of direct state involvement in certain forms;
- administrative and constitutional implications of expropriation of private companies;
- price regulation and market functioning;
- challenges of global markets (e.g. transfer pricing, state intervention against oligopolistic market structures);
- competition supervision;
- Industry 4.0 vs. tools and opportunities for state intervention.
F) Cultural, health and social function
- systems and challenges of human public services;
- differences and interdependence between public and private services;
- welfare society, public interest and economic interests;
- special issues of institution maintenance.
G) Population policy function
- family support, family support systems as public policies;
- administrative issues of child and youth protection.