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Im Zuge der Flüchtlingskrise sind in Deutschland zahlreiche Vollzugs- und Koordinationsprobleme im Bereich der Migrations- und Integrationspolitik zu Tage getreten und es kam zu einer partiellen Überforderung des politisch-administrativen Systems. Eine wesentliche Ursache für die beobachteten Defizite liegt in Problemen der Verwaltungsverflechtung...
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 institutio...
Purpose - This paper introduces the special issue on inter-institutional performance management, aimed at providing a better understanding of the topic. This guest editorial discusses the main benefits and issues linked to the achievement of collaboration and coordination in the design and use of performance indicators, both in public-public and in...
This article provides a conceptual framework for the analysis of COVID-19 crisis governance in the first half of 2020 from a cross-country comparative perspective. It focuses on the issue of opportunity management, that is, how the crisis was used by relevant actors of distinctly different administrative cultures as a window of opportunity. We star...
The international community of public administration and administrative sciences shows a great interest in the basic features of the German administrative system. The German public administration with its formative decentralisation (called: administrative federalism) is regarded as a prime example of multilevel governance and strong local self-gove...
This cross-country comparison of administrative responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in France, Germany and Sweden is aimed at exploring how institutional contexts and administrative cultures have shaped strategies of problem-solving and governance modes during the pandemic, and to what extent the crisis has been used for opportunity management. The...
This chapter outlines the organization and allocation of functions at the meso-level of government in Germany (states/Länder administrations). Furthermore, we shed light on the carriers and qualification profiles of the top bureaucrats in meso-level administrations. These high-rank territorial administrators/executives—state appointed heads of admi...
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 institutio...
Die Digitalisierung der öffentlichen Leistungserbringung für die Bürger bildet gegenwärtig einen Schwerpunkt der Modernisierungsaktivitäten in Staat und Verwaltung. Hinsichtlich der digitalen Informationsbereitstellung hat es zwar deutliche Fortschritte gegeben, insgesamt zeigt sich jedoch eine allenfalls moderate „E-Government-Performanz“ bei der...
Im vorliegenden Beitrag steht das Zusammenspiel von institutioneller Kompetenzverteilung im föderalen Mehrebenensystem und Funktionsfähigkeit der Verwaltung im Bereich der Integrationspolitik im Zentrum. Dieser Verwaltungsbereich gewinnt zunehmend an Bedeutung, da sich für den Personenkreis der ca. 983.000 anerkannten Flüchtlinge, die länger oder d...
The COVID‐19 crisis has shown that European countries still remain poorly prepared for dealing and coping with health crises and for responding in a coordinated way to a severe influenza pandemic. Within the EU, the response to the COVID‐19 virus has a striking diversity in its approach. By focusing on Belgium, France, Germany and Italy, four count...
In dieser Festschrift für Harald Fuhr behandeln Weggefährtinnen und Weggefährten unterschiedlicher beruflicher Stationen eine große Bandbreite an Themen aus sozialwissenschaftlicher Perspektive in drei Feldern: 1 Unter der Überschrift „Entwicklung und Verwaltung“ sind Beiträge gefasst, die sich wie Harald Fuhr mit der Frage auseinandersetzen, wie E...
Kuhlmann, Laffin and Wayenberg point out three main strands of subnational changes that have significantly dominated the research field and focus of Permanent Study Group 5. Elaborating upon the Study Group’s contributions, the chapter overviews relevant research questions, approaches and findings that have been touched upon concerning local and re...
In the course of the refugee crisis, over 1.4 million refugees have arrived in Germany. This entails many new demands on administrative bodies and has led to considerable implementation problems. There is a cross-level implementation system of a substantial institutional and procedural complexity. The problems of administrative action were initiall...
For many years, German municipal offices were regarded as the model of success in terms of modernising local administrative services in order to cater more to ordinary citizens. However, as a result of long waiting times and complaints from staff about deteriorating working conditions, municipal offices have come under increasing pressure in recent...
For many years, German municipal offices were regarded as the model of success in terms of modernising local administrative services in order to cater more to ordinary citizens. However, as a result of long waiting times and complaints from staff about deteriorating working conditions, municipal offices have come under increasing pressure in recent...
For many years, German municipal offices were regarded as the model of success in terms of modernising local administrative services in order to cater more to ordinary citizens. However, as a result of long waiting times and complaints from staff about deteriorating working conditions, municipal offices have come under increasing pressure in recent...
For many years, German municipal offices were regarded as the model of success in terms of modernising local administrative services in order to cater more to ordinary citizens. However, as a result of long waiting times and complaints from staff about deteriorating working conditions, municipal offices have come under increasing pressure in recent...
For many years, German municipal offices were regarded as the model of success in terms of modernising local administrative services in order to cater more to ordinary citizens. However, as a result of long waiting times and complaints from staff about deteriorating working conditions, municipal offices have come under increasing pressure in recent...
For many years, German municipal offices were regarded as the model of success in terms of modernising local administrative services in order to cater more to ordinary citizens. However, as a result of long waiting times and complaints from staff about deteriorating working conditions, municipal offices have come under increasing pressure in recent...
For many years, German municipal offices were regarded as the model of success in terms of modernising local administrative services in order to cater more to ordinary citizens. However, as a result of long waiting times and complaints from staff about deteriorating working conditions, municipal offices have come under increasing pressure in recent...
For many years, German municipal offices were regarded as the model of success in terms of modernising local administrative services in order to cater more to ordinary citizens. However, as a result of long waiting times and complaints from staff about deteriorating working conditions, municipal offices have come under increasing pressure in recent...
This chapter looks for main differences among local government systems as well as similarities among them. This has been done by the authors with the aim to grasp the institutional setting in which mayors have to act. The authors did it by updating and extending existing typologies and indices of local government systems. Nevertheless, an extension...
In recent decades, a wave of administrative reforms has changed local governance in many European countries. However, our knowledge about differences as well as similarities between the countries, driving forces, impacts, perceptions, and evaluation of these reforms is still limited. In the chapter, the authors give an overview about mayors’ percep...
Der vorliegende Beitrag fasst die bisherige Forschung über die Wirkungen von Gebietsreformen zusammen und analysiert diese aus inhaltlicher und methodischer Perspektive. Basierend auf einer Auswertung von ausgewählten nationalen und europäischen Studien werden Wirkungsbefunde in drei zentralen Dimensionen dargestellt: (1) Leistungsfähigkeit, Verwal...
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This paper discusses different approaches of performance measurement and benchmarking as "reflexive instituions" for local governments in England, Germany, and Sweden from a comparative perspective.
Design/methodology/approach
These three countries have been selected because they represent typical (most different) cases of European local...
Sub-municipal units (SMUs) in Germany differ in German Länder. In Berlin, Hamburg and München Metropole Districts fulfill a number of quasi-municipal self-government rights and functions. They have their own budget and strong councils, as well as mayors. In all other Länder, most sub-municipal councils were subordinated under the municipal council...
In Europe, different countries developed a rich variety of sub-municipal institutions. Out of the plethora of intra- and sub-municipal decentralization forms (reaching from local outposts of city administration to “quasi-federal” structures), this book focuses on territorial sub-municipal units (SMUs) which combine multipurpose territorial responsi...
This book explores sub-municipal units’ (SMU) role in decision making, decentralized institutional innovation, social innovation and, in rural areas, service delivery. Focusing on fourteen European countries, the book examines the impact of political cultures, administrative traditions and local government systems on the functioning of the SMUs. An...
This chapter provides an overview on analytical key-concepts and outcomes of comparative local government research. It focuses on local government systems in Europe and their reforms from a cross-countries and overtime perspective. This chapter presents various frameworks that have been put forward in order to capture the multi-faced institutional...
Die Forschung über Verwaltungsreformen bildete in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten einen Kernbereich der vergleichenden Verwaltungswissenschaft und empirischen Verwaltungsforschung insgesamt (vgl. Pollitt und Bouckaert 2004; 2011; Jann und Döhler 2007; Baldersheim und Rose 2010; Ebinger et al. 2011; Grohs et al. 2012; Kuhlmann und Bouckaert 2016). Hellm...
Die zentralen Entwicklungslinien des Wandels von Verwaltung und lokaler Politik über die letzten Jahrzehnte im deutschen wie im internationalen Kontext thematisiert dieser Sammelband. Anlässlich des 80. Geburtstages von Hellmut Wollmann geben national und international führende Wissenschaftler einen umfassenden Überblick über zentrale Forschungsfel...
Purpose This chapter is aimed at contributing to the question of how institutional reforms affect multi-level governance (MLG) capacities and thus the performance of public task fulfillment with a particular focus on the local level of government in England, France, and Germany. Methodology/approach Drawing on concepts of institutional evaluation,...
Der vorliegende Beitrag befasst sich mit den Folgewirkungen der Dezentralisierung in Frankreich und ordnet diese in den europäischen Kontext ein. Im internationalen Vergleich gilt das französische System traditionell als eines der am stärksten zentralisierten Verwaltungsmodelle. Vor diesem Hintergrund kann es als ein besonders instruktiver Fall ein...
The article attempts to analyse institutional reforms in the multi-level system of the French capital city. The key questions are the developments in central-local relations and what factors influenced these changes over the last century. The author seeks to identify 'critical junctures' in institutional development and explore their impact on the...
