Zdenek Kühn’s scientific contributions

... Simultaneously, it is a state of the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region, whose characteristics usually include the socalled "legalistic culture" (Ropret, Aristovnik & Kovač, 2018) significantly influenced by socialist legacies where many public administration workers tend to adhere to bureaucratic norms (see e.g. Kühn, 2011). In this context, this adherence to norms is a manifestation of behaviour that is by Kelsen's pure theory of law, which is based on the assumption that law is the norm, or, more exactly, a set of norms, a normative order, where the norm is a rule whose meaning is that something ought to be or to be done, even if it is not, or is not done (Kelsen, 2016). ...

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The COVID-19 Crisis and State Administration Authorities – a Systematic Review of National Regulatory Measures Adopted in Czechia