Public Administration in Germany

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 activiti...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Kuhlmann, Sabine (Editor), Proeller, Isabella (Editor), Schimanke, Dieter (Editor), Ziekow, Jan (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Edition:1st ed. 2021.
Series:Governance and Public Management,
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Table of 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.