Introduction to comparative public administration : administrative systems and reform in Europe / Sabine Kuhlmann and Hellmut Wollmann.

Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar, 2015.©2014

Kuhlmann, Sabine. author.

Wollmann, Hellmut, 1936- author.

01-01-2015

xiii, 345 pages ; 24 cm.

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Comparative government

Public Service

Public service management

Europe

European Union

Statistics

International comparisons

Overseas item

Public administration -- Europe.

Public administration -- European Union countries.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [294]-331) and index.

9781783473595

9781783473588

Summary: This innovative textbook provides an in-depth analysis and account of the state of public administration and recent administrative reforms in European countries. It introduces key features of public administration in six European countries, by comparing current administrative reforms and highlighting the extent to which the different administrative systems have converged or continue to persist in their respective traditions.

1.Introduction -- 2.Theories and analytical approaches -- 2.1.Comparative public administration -- 2.2.Institutional policies and administrative reforms -- 2.3.Explaining administrative reforms: neo-institutionalist approaches -- 3.Models and traditions of public administration in Europe: country profiles -- 3.1.The Continental European Napoleonic model: France and Italy -- 3.2.The Continental European federal model: Germany -- 3.3.The Scandinavian model: Sweden -- 3.4.The Anglo-Saxon model: United Kingdom -- 3.5.The Central Eastern European model: Hungary -- 3.6.Cross-country comparison -- 4.Administrative reforms from a comparative perspective -- 4.1.Reform discourses -- 4.2.Inter-governmental reforms: decentralization, regionalization and federalization -- 4.3.Territorial reforms -- 4.4.Reforming public administration between state and market: privatization and remunicipalization --Contents note continued: 4.5.Modernizing administrative organization, procedures and personnel -- 5.Comparative summary -- 5.1.Administrative reform discourses -- 5.2.Reform implementation -- 5.3.Explaining convergence, divergence and persistence -- 6.Future prospects of comparative public administration.

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