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Based on a survey of more than 6,700 top civil servants in 17
European countries, this book explores the impacts of New Public
Management (NPM)-style reforms in Europe from a uniquely
comparative perspective. It examines and analyses empirical
findings regarding the dynamics, major trends and tools of
administrative reforms, with special focus on the diversity of top
executives' perceptions about the effects of those reforms.
Resulting from research funded by the European Commission, this
book is an ambitious, comprehensive portrait of public
administration in the central European bureaucracies after more
than three decades of NPM reforms and in the aftermath of the 2008
financial crisis. The chapters present extensive data on single
countries but invaluably take a comparative approach, presenting a
broad, explorational perspective. Public Administration Reforms in
Europe is an indispensable resource for researchers, practitioners
and students in a variety of social science areas, especially
public administration, public policy and public management.
Contributors include: J. M. Alonso, R. Andrews, P. Bezes, R. Boyle,
M.E. Cardim, J. Clifton, D. Diaz-Fuentes, J. Downe, N. Ejersbo, F.
Ferre, D. Galli, C. Greve, V. Guarneros-Meza, G. Hajnal, G.
Hammerschmid, K. Huxley, G. Jeannot, S. Jilke, P. Laegreid, S.
Leixnering, F. Longo, R.E. Meyer, L. Mota, V. Nakrosis, S.A.
OEberg, E. Ongaro, A. Oprisor, L. Pereira, T. Randma-Liiv, R.
Rauleckas, L.H. Rykkja, K. Sarapuu, L. Sarkute , R. Savi, A.
Schikowitz, R. Snapstiene, T. Steen, V. Stimac, S. Van de Walle, J.
van der Voet, T. Virtanen, U. Weske, H. Wockelberg
This book is based upon a comparative public administration
research project, initiated by the Hertie School of Governance
(Germany) and the Bertelsmann Foundation (Germany) and supported by
a network of researchers from many EU countries. It analyzes both
the regimes and the practices of local fiscal regulation in 21
European countries. The book brings together key findings of this
research project. The regulatory discussion is not limited to the
prominent issue of fiscal rules but focuses on every component of
regulation. Beyond this, the book covers affiliated topics such as
the impact of regulation for local governments, evolution of
regulation, administrative costs and crisis prevention. The various
book chapters throughout provide a broad picture of local public
finance regulation in theory and in practice, using different
theoretical and national lenses for the analysis. Furthermore, the
authors investigate the effects of budgetary constraints and
higher-level regulatory efforts on local governments and on
democracy and public services in every European country. This book
fills a gap with respect to the lack of discussion on local
government finance from an international, comparative perspective
and, in particular, the regulation of local public finance. With
its mix of authors, this book will be useful for practitioners as
well as for scholars and for theory-driven research.
Based on a survey of more than 6,700 top civil servants in 17
European countries, this book explores the impacts of New Public
Management (NPM)-style reforms in Europe from a uniquely
comparative perspective. It examines and analyses empirical
findings regarding the dynamics, major trends and tools of
administrative reforms, with special focus on the diversity of top
executives' perceptions about the effects of those reforms.
Resulting from research funded by the European Commission, this
book is an ambitious, comprehensive portrait of public
administration in the central European bureaucracies after more
than three decades of NPM reforms and in the aftermath of the 2008
financial crisis. The chapters present extensive data on single
countries but invaluably take a comparative approach, presenting a
broad, explorational perspective. Public Administration Reforms in
Europe is an indispensable resource for researchers, practitioners
and students in a variety of social science areas, especially
public administration, public policy and public management.
Contributors include: J. M. Alonso, R. Andrews, P. Bezes, R. Boyle,
M.E. Cardim, J. Clifton, D. Diaz-Fuentes, J. Downe, N. Ejersbo, F.
Ferre, D. Galli, C. Greve, V. Guarneros-Meza, G. Hajnal, G.
Hammerschmid, K. Huxley, G. Jeannot, S. Jilke, P. Laegreid, S.
Leixnering, F. Longo, R.E. Meyer, L. Mota, V. Nakrosis, S.A.
OEberg, E. Ongaro, A. Oprisor, L. Pereira, T. Randma-Liiv, R.
Rauleckas, L.H. Rykkja, K. Sarapuu, L. Sarkute , R. Savi, A.
Schikowitz, R. Snapstiene, T. Steen, V. Stimac, S. Van de Walle, J.
van der Voet, T. Virtanen, U. Weske, H. Wockelberg
This book is based upon a comparative public administration
research project, initiated by the Hertie School of Governance
(Germany) and the Bertelsmann Foundation (Germany) and supported by
a network of researchers from many EU countries. It analyzes both
the regimes and the practices of local fiscal regulation in 21
European countries. The book brings together key findings of this
research project. The regulatory discussion is not limited to the
prominent issue of fiscal rules but focuses on every component of
regulation. Beyond this, the book covers affiliated topics such as
the impact of regulation for local governments, evolution of
regulation, administrative costs and crisis prevention. The various
book chapters throughout provide a broad picture of local public
finance regulation in theory and in practice, using different
theoretical and national lenses for the analysis. Furthermore, the
authors investigate the effects of budgetary constraints and
higher-level regulatory efforts on local governments and on
democracy and public services in every European country. This book
fills a gap with respect to the lack of discussion on local
government finance from an international, comparative perspective
and, in particular, the regulation of local public finance. With
its mix of authors, this book will be useful for practitioners as
well as for scholars and for theory-driven research.
Infrastructure only tends to be noticed when it is absent,
declining, or decrepit, or when enormous cost overruns, time
delays, or citizen protests make the headlines. If infrastructure
is indeed a fundamental driver of economic growth and social
development, why is it so difficult to get right? In addressing
this perennial question, this volume-the fourth edition in an
annual series tackling different aspects of governance around the
world-makes the case for a governance perspective on
infrastructure. This implies moving beyond rational economic
analysis of what should be done towards an analysis of the
political, institutional, and societal mechanisms that shape
decision-making about infrastructure investment, planning, and
implementation. Engaging with theories from sociology, political
science, and public administration, and drawing on empirical
analyses bridging OECD and non-OECD countries, the contributions to
this volume dissect the logics of infrastructure governance in a
novel way, providing timely analyses that will enrich both
scholarly and policy debates about how to get infrastructure
governance right.
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