Handbook on the Politics of Public Administration. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Andreas Ladner, Fritz Sager.
• Editors: Ladner, Andreas; Sager, Fritz
• Contents: Contents: PART I INTRODUCTION 1 The politics of public administration 2 Andreas Ladner, Fritz Sager and Alexander Bastianen 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 13 Jos C. N. Raadschelders 3 The politics of the politics-administration dichotomy 24 Fritz Sager and Christian Rosser 4 Taking stock: New Public Management (NPM) and post-NPM reforms – trends and challenges 38 Tom Christensen and Per Lægreid 5 The politics of new public governance 50 Eva Sørensen 6 The politics of decentralization 59 Andreas Ladner 7 International public administration and politics 70 Jörn Ege 8 Politics, public administration and evidence-based policy 82 Joshua Newman 9 Ministerial advisory systems and politics 93 Thurid Hustedt 10 The politics of policy implementation: a reassessment in more conflictual times 102 Fritz Sager and Markus Hinterleitner 11 The politics of administrative burden 114 Donald Moynihan 12 The politics of administrative reforms 125 Jörg Bogumil and Sabine Kuhlmann 13 Public management and politics: oxymoron or new political paradigm for the state sector? 138 Geert Bouckaert PART III POLITICS WITHIN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 14 The politics of bureaucratic organizations 150 Adrian Ritz and Daniela Schädeli 15 The politics of regulation: mapping half a century of debates (1970–2020) 161 Jeroen van der Heijden 16 The role of constitutional and administrative law in the politics of public administration 173 Andreas Lienhard, Peter Bieri and Anna Malandrino 17 The politics of public finance 187 John R. Bartle 18 The politics of staffing 199 Frits M. van der Meer and Gerrit S. A. Dijkstra 19 The politics of public administration in policy-making 210 Karin Ingold and Paul Cairney 20 The politics of performance management 220 Wouter van Dooren 21 The politics of accountability 230 Thomas Schillemans 22 The politics of evaluation 243 Céline Mavrot and Valérie Pattyn 23 Reputation and bureaucratic politics 255 Dovilė Rimkutė 24 The politics of digital government 266 Tobias Mettler PART IV COUNTRY STUDIES 25 The politics of public administration in the USA: the role of structural fragmentation, professionalization and path dependence 276 Kenneth J. Meier and Anita Dhillon 26 France: under the rule of a contested politico-administrative elite whose legitimacy erodes 288 Jean-Michel Eymeri-Douzans 27 Germany: still a politicized, but meritocratic bureaucracy? 302 Falk Ebinger 28 The relationship between politics and public administration in Sweden: an archetypical welfare state 312 Tomas Bergström 29 Switzerland: the politics of PA in a multi-party semi-direct consensus Democracy 320 Andreas Ladner and Fritz Sager 30 The politics of public administration in the Russian Federation 330 Caroline Schlaufer and Tim Jäkel 31 Public administration in China: a politics-administration relation perspective 341 G. Zhiyong Lan 32 Singapore: administrative city-state 350 J. J. Woo 33 Non-governability and lack of reform: politics and public administration in Israel 360 Nissim Cohen 34 Mexico: a public administration under fire 369 Oliver Meza 35 Divergent paths of (de-)politicization: the Colombian and Venezuelan public administrations 380 John Polga-Hecimovich 36 The dynamic relationship between public administration and politics in Korea: actor and institutional perspectives 393 Tobin Im and Kwang-Hoon Lee 37 The politics of public administration in Japan 401 Masao Kikuchi 38 The politics of public administration in twenty-first century India 409 Srinivas Yerramsetti Index.
• Publisher Details: Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource (444 pages)
• Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Affairs & Administration; Public administration; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- General; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference; Political science & theory; Political structure & processes; Reference works
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781839109447; 1839109440
• Related ISBNs: 9781839109430
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