Handbook on the politics of public administration / edited by Andreas Ladner, Fritz Sager.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Sager, Fritz, editor.

Ladner, Andreas, editor.

Series:

Elgar Handbooks in Public Administration and Management

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public administration.

Public administration--Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (444 pages)

Place of Publication:

London, England ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2022]

Summary:

This innovative Handbook puts the politics of public administration at the forefront, providing comprehensive insights and comparative perspectives of the different aspects of the field.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents

Contributors

Part I Introduction

1. The politics of public administration

Part II Public Administration in Politics

2. The evolution of bureaucracy as political actor: from instrument for power, via iron cage, to container and guardian of democracy

3. The politics of the politics-administration dichotomy

4. Taking stock: New Public Management (NPM) and post-NPM reforms - trends and challenges

5. The politics of new public governance

6. The politics of decentralization

7. International public administration and politics

8. Politics, public administration, and evidence-based policy

9. Ministerial advisory systems and politics

10. The politics of policy implementation: a reassessment in more conflictual times

11. The politics of administrative burden

12. The politics of administrative reforms

13. Public management and politics: oxymoron or new political paradigm for the state sector?

Part III Politics Within Public Administration

14. The politics of bureaucratic organizations

15. The politics of regulation: mapping half a century of debates (1970-2020)

16. The role of constitutional and administrative law in the politics of public administration

17. The politics of public finance

18. The politics of staffing

19. The politics of public administration in policy-making

20. The politics of performance management

21. The politics of accountability

22. The politics of evaluation

23. Reputation and bureaucratic politics

24. The politics of digital government

Part IV Country Studies

25. The politics of public administration in the US: the role of structural fragmentation, professionalization, and path dependence

26. France: under the rule of a contested politico-administrative elite whose legitimacy erodes.

27. Germany: still a politicized, but meritocratic bureaucracy?

28. The relationship between politics and public administration in Sweden: an archetypical welfare state

29. Switzerland: the politics of PA in a multi-party semi-direct consensus democracy

30. The politics of public administration in the Russian Federation

31. Public administration in China: a politics-administration relation perspective

32. Singapore: administrative city-state

33. Non-governability and lack of reform: politics and public administration in Israel

34. Mexico: a public administration under fire

35. Divergent paths of (de-)politicization: the Colombian and Venezuelan public administrations

36. The dynamic relationship between public administration and politics in Korea: actor and institutional perspectives

37. The politics of public administration in Japan

38. The politics of public administration in twenty-first century India

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Ladner, Andreas Handbook on the Politics of Public Administration

ISBN:

1-83910-944-0