Abstract
There is a growing attention paid to strategic planning in public administration worldwide, both at the national and international level. In the European context, especially the role of the EU is important as it promotes strategic planning in the Member States through the reformed Cohesion Policy for 2014-2020.
While much literature has been devoted to the study of processes of strategic planning in particular public organizations, analyses of strategic planning at the national level remain scarce. This article seeks to address this shortcoming by examining strategic planning in light of the New Public Management (NPM) and post-NPM approaches - Digital Era Governance, Public Value Management and New Public Governance.
Based on these theories, strategic planning is conceptualized and key attributes are identified to be further used as a framework for analysis. This is then applied to the case of the Czech Republic in the second part of the paper.