Public Administration in Germany / edited by Sabine Kuhlmann, Isabella Proeller, Dieter Schimanke, Jan Ziekow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kuhlmann, Sabine, Editor.

Contributor:

Kuhlmann, Sabine, Editor.

Proeller, Isabella, Editor.

Schimanke, Dieter, Editor.

Ziekow, Jan, Editor.

Series:

Governance and Public Management, 2524-7298

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political planning.

Public administration.

Political science.

Public Policy.

Public Administration.

Governance and Government.

Local Subjects:

Public Policy.

Public Administration.

Governance and Government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XXIV, 416 p. 7 illus.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2021.

Place of Publication:

2021.

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This open access book presents a topical, comprehensive and differentiated analysis of Germany’s public administration and reforms. It provides an overview on key elements of German public administration at the federal, Länder and local levels of government as well as on current reform activities of the public sector. It examines the key institutional features of German public administration; the changing relationships between public administration, society and the private sector; the administrative reforms at different levels of the federal system and numerous sectors; and new challenges and modernization approaches like digitalization, Open Government and Better Regulation. Each chapter offers a combination of descriptive information and problem-oriented analysis, presenting key topical issues in Germany which are relevant to an international readership. Sabine Kuhlmann is Professor of Political Science, Public Administration and Organization at Potsdam University, Germany, Vice President of the IIAS for Western Europe, and Vice-Chair of the National Regulatory Control Council of the German Federal Government. Isabella Proeller is Professor for Public and Nonprofit Management at the University of Potsdam, Germany. Dieter Schimanke is former Professor of Public Administration at the Helmut-Schmidt-University in Hamburg, Germany. He became Secretary of State in a state in East Germany after unification and since his retirement, he is Senior Expert in projects of GIZ on reforms of Public Administration (mainly in Eastern Europe and Asia). Jan Ziekow is Professor of Public Law and the Director of the German Research Institute for Public Administration, Germany, Vice-President and former President of the German Section of IIAS.

Contents:

1. German Public Administration: Background and Key Issues

2. Constitutional State and Public Administration

3. Administrative federalism

4. The European Context of the German Public Administration

5. Federal Administration

6. The Federal administration of Interior Affairs

7. The Peculiarities of the Social Security System ('indirect state administration')

8. The administration of the Länder

9. Local Self-Government and Administration

10. Politics and Administration in Germany

11. Administrative Procedures and Processes

12. Control and Accountability: Administrative Courts and Courts of Audit

13. Civil Service and Public Employment

14. Public Finance

15. The transformation of public administration in East Germany following Unification

16. Administrative Reforms in the Multilevel System: Reshuffling Tasks and Territories

17. Institutional Differentiation of Public Service Provision in Germany: Corporatization, Privitization and Re-Municipalization

18. Participatory Administration and Co-Production

19. Digital Transformation of the German State

20. Supplement: Open Government

21. The Federal Ministerial Bureaucracy, the Legislative Process and Better Regulation

22. Human Resource Management, Performance-Related Pay and Public Service Motivation

23. New Steering Model, Performance management, Benchmarking.

ISBN:

9783030536978

3030536971

OCLC:

1236265214