Public Administration and the Modern State [electronic resource] : Assessing Trends and Impact /
Lehrke, J.author.
Bohne, E.editor.
Graham, J.editor.
Raadschelders, J.editor.
The challenges faced by the public sector are many and varied. Civil services at the forefront of tackling pressing problems in a whole range of areas from climate change to income inequality are being allocated less money to do so. This collection explores how public sectors have adapted to address the demands placed on them in the 21st Century.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Normative Perspectives on the State; 1 Attending to Mission-Extrinsic Public Values in Performance-Oriented Administrative Management: A View from the United States; 2 Europe and the USA: The Uphill Quest for Regulatory Cooperation; 3 What We Seem to Forget in Modern Public Administration; Part II: Protecting State; 4 Reconciling Inconsistencies in Regulation throughout the European Union for a Risk-Based Approach toward Industry Governance: A Closer Look at Germany
5 State Intervention in Times of the Global Economic Crisis6 The Sources of Security Regulation Convergence; Part III: Participatory State; 7 User and Community Coproduction of Public Services: What Influences Citizens to Coproduce?; 8 Overlooking an International Movement in Volunteerism? Understanding Citizen Involvement in Volunteer Centers; 9 Participatory Administrative Procedure: USA vs. Selected EU States; Part IV: Transparent State; 10 Erecting the Public Sector Information Exchange; 11 Open Government, Behavior Control, and the Privacy Risk of Digital Government
12 Collaborative Governance and Collaborating Online: The Open Government Initiative in the United StatesPart V: Multilevel State; 13 Reforming Public Administration in Multilevel Systems: An Evaluation of Performance Changes in European Local Governments; 14 Endogenous Transformations in European Public Administration: Soft-Law, Transnationally Networked Governance as a Self-Reinforcing Trend; 15 Regio-crats' Policy Participation Demands in the EU Multilevel System; Concluding Observations: The State Is Here to Stay: We Cannot Live with It, We Cannot Live without It; Bibliography; Name Index
Subject Index
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
The challenges faced by the public sector are many and varied. Civil services at the forefront of tackling pressing problems in a whole range of areas from climate change to income inequality are being allocated less money to do so. This collection explores how public sectors have adapted to address the demands placed on them in the 21st Century.
Public policy.
Political theory.
Political science.
Comparative politics.
Public administration.
Globalization.
Public Policy.
Political Theory.
Political Science.
Comparative Politics.
Public Administration.
Globalization.