Mirko Pečarič

Mirko Pečarič graduated from the College of the Interior in Ljubljana in 1995 after finishing high school. He obtained a Master of Science and a PhD from the Faculty of Law at the University of Ljubljana in 1998 and passed the national law exam in 2002. In 1998, he began his internship at the Office for Administrative and Home Affairs within the Ministry of the Interior. From 1999 to 2004, he worked as an independent criminal investigation inspector at the Department for Organised Crime in the Ljubljana Police. From 2004 to 2007, he was employed at the National Council of the Republic of Slovenia as the Commission for State Affairs' secretary and then as the Head of the Legal Department within the National Council. While serving as the General Secretary of the University of Ljubljana, he became more involved in the field of higher education. In 2009, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the field of administrative law and public administration. In 2013, the Government of the Republic of Slovenia appointed him as the State Secretary at the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport. So far, he has taught courses in Administrative Law, Public Services, Introduction to Law, and the Theory of Public Administration. Since 2021, he has been serving as the full professor and dean of the Faculty of Public Administration. He has written a series of legal opinions and requirements for assessing the constitutionality of laws. He is also the author of six monographs and numerous scientific articles.

Publications

Holistic Public Agency in Complex Environments
Holistic Public Agency in Complex Environments
Mirko Pečarič. © 2024. 322 pages.
Public administration faces a critical challenge: the need for transformative adaptiveness in public agencies. Despite diverse organizational structures and functions, agencies...
The Awareness of Mentality in Public Administration as the Key for the Management of Its Complexity
The Awareness of Mentality in Public Administration as the Key for the Management of Its Complexity
Mirko Pečarič. © 2020. 24 pages.
Public objectives are mostly pursued within public administration, which despite its apparent Weberian rationality works mainly evolutionarily – by imitating processes or things...
Be Attentive to Public Employees: They Are the Source of Mentality and Health of Public Administration
Be Attentive to Public Employees: They Are the Source of Mentality and Health of Public Administration
Mirko Pečarič. © 2020. 40 pages.
The present complexity cannot be grasped by endless enumeration of objective factors. Each choice reveals what a person is believed to be; each choice shapes people through the...
Structural Coupling of Regulatory Elements and Reality Challenges: When Mixing Matters
Structural Coupling of Regulatory Elements and Reality Challenges: When Mixing Matters
Mirko Pečarič. © 2020. 23 pages.
Different realities are possible and thus also different decisions. They are based on predispositions faced with different challenges that people (do not) acknowledge. The...
Public Services and the Missed Values of (Non)Communication
Public Services and the Missed Values of (Non)Communication
Mirko Pečarič. © 2019. 17 pages.
Citizens' interactions are at the center of open governments. When the latter use open structures and open processes to foster (technical) collaboration, citizens'...
The Awareness of Mentality in Public Administration as the Key for the Management of Its Complexity
The Awareness of Mentality in Public Administration as the Key for the Management of Its Complexity
Mirko Pečarič. © 2016. 24 pages.
Public objectives are mostly pursued within public administration, which despite its apparent Weberian rationality works mainly evolutionarily – by imitating processes or things...