EDITOR’S WORD

Abstract

Dear academic and professional community, dear readers, We are presenting, with great pleasure, the new issue of the Journal "Administration", the scientific journal for Administration and Administrative Law. Since the publication of the previous issue, academic and professional community was saddened by the news that, on the 26th of January this year, the esteemed Professor Ćazim Sadiković, former Dean of the Faculty of Administration and Faculty of Law, at University of Sarajevo, passed away.

We wish, in the context of this edition of Journal, to pay a special tribute to Professor Sadiković, PhD, an excellent lawyer respected in the European professional and academic networks.

Professor Ćazim Sadiković, PhD, was born in 1935 in Ljubuški. He graduated gymnasium in Mostar and Faculty of Law in Sarajevo.

As an avant-garde to his contemporaries and compatriots, he received his master’s degree from the European University in Nancy (France) in the field of legal and political sciences for the topic "Contemporary aspects of democracy in Europe", while he received his doctorate from the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). Following his example, the Faculty of Administration, within its publishing activities and scientific research opus, promotes contemporary research in the field of Administration, such as the Scientific Article in this issue of Journal ‘Administration’ that observes the leadership in the context of SIGMA Principles of Public Administration.

And Professor Sadiković was also a very successful leader, while in his career he held the positions of Dean of the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Administration at the University of Sarajevo, but also the positions of the President of the Commission for Constitutional Affairs of SFR Yugoslavia, President of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and managerial positions in many other professional and academic bodies. One of the Papers in this issue of our Journal compares constitutional systems, and that was the area of highest expertise of Professor Sadiković.

A significant part of esteemed Professor Sadiković’s biography is represented by the facts that he also lectured at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Sarajevo, and in his career, among other courses, he lectured "Introduction to Political Sciences", "Political Systems" and "International Public Law". In this issue of the Journal the connection between political stability and foreign direct investment is analyzed.

Certainly, Professor Sadiković, while managing important public institutions, also encountered problems of public decision-making, and made an exceptional contribution for solving such problems. And he made an immeasurable contribution to the improvement of decision-making in the system of government through his activities in the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe (European Commission for Democracy through Law). Contribution to this issue of the Journal "Administration" had been given by the authors who wrote about the problems and controversies of public decision-making in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Finally, Professor Ćazim Sadiković expressed distinguished sensibility to contemporary or avant-garde reflections about state, its institutions and the education of civil servants for many times during his rich career, including the period of establishment and the first years of the Faculty of Administration. Therefore, he would certainly be proud of the fact that the Journal "Administration" elaborates also the topics of renewable energy and economic growth or the application of computer systems for decision-making in public procurement procedures.

Professor Ćazim Sadiković, PhD, is the author of eleven books and hundreds of scientific and professional papers in the fields of legal and political sciences, and the winner of respectable domestic and international awards for his outstanding scientific and professional contribution.

Faculty of Administration and the Editorial Board of the Journal "Administration" express gratitude, with the highest reverence, to Professor Ćazim Sadiković for his exceptional and crucial contribution to our activities.

We are also grateful to all authors and our associates for their contribution to this issue of the Journal.

With respect,
Amel Delić, PhD