Main tasks

Professor of Public Policy

Areas of research

Selected academic publications:

Sootla G., Lääne S. (2013). Public Administration Developments and Practices in Estonia. – In: Liebert, S., Condery S., Gontscharov D. (Eds.) Public Administration in Post-Communist Countries: Former Soviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe and Mongolia. Taylor and Francis Group, CRC Press

Sootla G., Lääne S. (2013). Responses to the Decline of Local Autonomy in Estonia. – In: Nemec J., De Vries M. Public Sector Dynamics in Central and Eastern Europe. NISPA, Bratislava

Sootla G., Kattai K. (2011). Estonia: Challenges and Lessons of the Development of Local Autonomy – In: The Oxford Handbook of Sub-national Democracy in Europe. Oxford University Press 2011

Sootla G. (2010) Institutional Context of Politico- Administrative Systems in Europe. – Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 3 No 6

Connaugthon B., Sootla G., Guy Peters B. (Ed.). Actors, structures and Processes supporting the Core Executive. NISPA, Bratislava 2008