Public Administration and Human Rights in Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina 2011: Legal Provisions, Practice and International Human Rights Standards with Public Opinion Survey
In accordance with their constitutional status, the public administration authorities are obliged to respect, protect and fulfil the human rights and fundamental freedoms guaranteed under the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Human rights protection in public administration is achieved through its function of executing laws and procedures in which decisions on the rights and obligations of citizens and legal entities are taken. Therefore, public administration plays a significant role in protecting and promoting human rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Public administration in BiH in the post-conflict and transition period was certainly under the influence of a number of aggravating factors that affected reform processes. The main aggravating factors identified were: pronounced political monopoly over the administration, the materialization of quantitative over qualitative growth with multiple horizontal and vertical levels of authority, unfavourable personnel structures, as well as deficiencies incorporated into the existing constitutional structure that brought strong expansion of substantive administration liability.