Public Administration in Germany.

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Superior document:Governance and Public Management Series
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Place / Publishing House:Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2021.
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Year of Publication:2021
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Governance and Public Management Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (415 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Public Administration in Germany
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Praise for Public Administration in Germany
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Untitled
  • Chapter 1: German Public Administration: Background and Key Issues
  • 1 Introduction: Background and Approach of the Publication
  • 2 Part I: German Public Administration in the Multilevel System
  • 3 Part II: Politics, Procedures and Resources
  • 4 Part III: Redrawing Structures, Boundaries and Service Delivery
  • 5 Part IV: Modernising Processes and Enhancing Management Capacities
  • 6 International Context and Lessons to Learn
  • References
  • Part I: German Public Administration in the Multilevel System
  • Chapter 2: Constitutional State and Public Administration
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Key Concepts of Public Law and Public Administration
  • 2.1 The Principle of the Law-Governed State (Rechtsstaat)
  • 2.2 The Constitutional State (Verfassungsstaat)
  • 2.3 The Integration of the Rechtsstaat and the Verfassungsstaat in the European Union
  • 2.4 Lessons Learned
  • 3 The Constitutional Frame of Public Administration
  • 3.1 Constitutional Principles
  • 3.2 The Multilevel Administration of German Federalism
  • 3.3 The Impact of Fundamental Rights on Public Administration
  • 3.4 Lessons Learned
  • 4 The Role of Judicial Review
  • 4.1 The Right to an Effective Judicial Remedy
  • 4.2 The Powers of the Constitutional Jurisdiction
  • 4.3 The Jurisdictionalisation of Administrative and Constitutional Law
  • 4.4 Lessons Learned
  • 5 Constitutional Reform and Constitutional Change
  • 6 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 3: Administrative Federalism
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Historical Roots of German Administrative Federalism
  • 3 Distribution of Responsibilities
  • 4 Coordination and Cooperation: Making Administrative Federalism Work
  • 5 Trends and Challenges.
  • 6 Conclusion and Lessons Learned
  • References
  • Chapter 4: Europeanisation and German Public Administration
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The EU's Striving to Extend Its Jurisdiction
  • 3 The Principle of Member State Responsibility for Administering and Enforcing EU Law
  • 4 To Avoid Discrepancies, Member States Implement EU Law to a Greater Degree than Is Actually Required
  • 5 EU Court Rulings
  • 6 Legal Remedy Provided by the National Administrative Courts
  • 7 Lessons Learned
  • References
  • Chapter 5: Federal Administration
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Formal Framework for the Federal Administration
  • 3 Organisation of the Federal Administration: Ministries and Agencies
  • 4 Practices of Coordination and Utilisation of Expertise
  • 4.1 Levels and Patterns of Inter-ministerial Coordination
  • 4.2 External Expertise in Inter-ministerial Coordination
  • 5 The German Federal Administration as a Reluctant Yet Mostly Unconcerned Reformer
  • 6 Lessons Learned
  • References
  • Chapter 6: The Federal Administration of Interior Affairs
  • 1 Introduction: Federal Administration/State Administration
  • 2 Exception: Federal Administration
  • 3 Structure of the Federal Administration
  • 4 The BMI and Its Executive Agencies
  • 5 Supervision
  • 6 Excursus: 'Minister-Free Zones'
  • 7 Central Service Provider: Federal Office of Administration
  • 8 From Superior Federal Authority to Supreme Federal Authority: Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information
  • 9 Lessons Learned
  • References
  • Chapter 7: The Peculiarities of the Social Security Systems (Indirect State Administration)
  • 1 The Welfare State, Its Programmes (Laws) and Entrenchment in Administrative Federalism
  • 2 Areas of Social Benefits and Their Allocation Within the Administrative System of Germany.
  • 3 The Special Status of the Social Security Systems and Their Relationship to the General Administrative System
  • 3.1 The Legal Bases of the Public Institutions in the Social Security Systems
  • 3.2 Oversight of the Social Security Systems
  • 4 Lessons Learned
  • References
  • Chapter 8: The Administration of the Länder
  • 1 Administrations of the Länder (Federal States) in the System of German Federalism
  • 2 Basic Conditions for the Administrative Organisation
  • 3 Basic Structures of the Administrations of the Länder
  • 3.1 Direct Land Administration
  • 3.1.1 Upper Administrative Level
  • 3.1.2 Regional Meso Level
  • 3.1.3 Lower State Authorities
  • 3.2 Indirect Land Government
  • 4 Personnel Structure and Administrative Culture
  • 5 Lessons Learned
  • 5.1 Structural Reforms: More than a Political Playground?
  • 5.2 Prepared for the Future? Digitalisation as a Major Challenge
  • References
  • Chapter 9: Local Self-Government and Administration
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Cities, Counties and Municipalities
  • 2.1 The Various Bodies of Local Self-Government
  • 2.2 Population and Size of County-Free Cities, Counties and Municipalities Belonging to a County
  • 2.3 Common Tasks of County-Free Cities, Counties and Municipalities Belonging to a County
  • 2.3.1 The Common Tasks at the County Level Are Primarily
  • 2.3.2 The Municipalities Belonging to a County Are Responsible for the Following
  • 2.4 State Authority and Local Supervision
  • 3 Local Self-Government and Its Constitutional Foundations
  • 3.1 The Constitutional Guarantee of Local Self-Government Right
  • 3.1.1 Article 28 (2) of the Basic Law as Institutional Guarantee of the Local Self-Government of the Municipalities and Associations of Municipalities (Counties)4
  • 3.1.2 Principles of Financial Autonomy (Article 28 (2), Third Sentence of the Basic Law).
  • 4 Fundamentals of Local Constitutional Law
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.1.1 Elections and Forms of Direct Democracy at the Local Level
  • 4.2 The Local Bodies
  • 4.2.1 The Local Representative Bodies
  • 4.2.2 The Chief Administrative Officer
  • 5 The Local Government Associations
  • 6 Lessons Learned
  • References
  • Part II: Politics, Procedures and Resources
  • Chapter 10: Politics and Administration in Germany
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Politics and Administration in Federal Ministries
  • 3 Politics and Administration in Länder Ministries
  • 4 Politics and Administration at the Local Level
  • 5 Lessons Learned
  • References
  • Chapter 11: Administrative Procedures and Processes
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Classification of Processes
  • 3 Extra-Organisational Procedures
  • 3.1 Service Delivery Processes
  • 3.2 Communication
  • 3.3 Transparency and Information
  • 3.4 Law
  • 3.4.1 Functions of Administrative Procedure Law
  • 3.4.2 Structures and Principles of Administrative Procedure Law
  • 3.4.3 Reform Discussions and Recent Developments
  • 4 Intra-Organisational Processes
  • 4.1 Management and Support Processes
  • 4.2 Knowledge Management
  • 4.3 Law
  • 5 Inter-Organisational Processes
  • 5.1 Inter-Organisational Communication and Cooperation
  • 5.1.1 Performance-Related Communication
  • 5.1.2 Performance-Related Cooperation
  • 5.2 Inter-Organisational Support
  • 5.3 Inter-Organisational Control
  • 5.4 Law
  • 6 Lessons Learned
  • References
  • Chapter 12: Control and Accountability: Administrative Courts and Courts of Audit
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Administrative Courts
  • 2.1 The Structure of Administrative Courts in Germany
  • 2.2 Empirical Facts
  • 2.3 Types of Decisions
  • 2.4 Depth of Control
  • 2.4.1 Exception No. 1: Discretion
  • 2.4.2 Exception No. 2: Scope for Appreciation
  • 2.5 Extent of Control.
  • 2.6 Remaining Aspects Concerning Judicial Control
  • 3 Courts of Audit
  • 3.1 Organisational Features
  • 3.2 Scope of Review
  • 3.3 Effects
  • 4 Lessons Learned
  • References
  • Chapter 13: Civil Service and Public Employment
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Civil Service Systems Compared: What Kind of an Animal Is the German Civil Service?
  • 3 How Does the German Civil Service Measure Up? Size and Structure of Public Employment
  • 4 How Does the German Civil Service Work? Major Characteristics and Features
  • 4.1 The Weberian Bureaucrat as a 'Leitmotif': 'Civil Servant' and 'Public Employee' as Competing but Also Converging Status Models
  • 4.2 Steering and Coordination in the German Civil Service: Legal Frames, Collective Bargaining and Civil Service Politics
  • 4.3 Recruitment and Qualification
  • 4.4 Compensation Schemes and Benefits
  • 4.5 The German Civil Service at the Interface Between Politics and Administration
  • 5 How the German Civil Service Has Changed or Is Supposed to Change: Major Challenges and Reform Trends
  • 6 Lessons Learned and Concluding Thoughts
  • References
  • Chapter 14: Public Finance
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Regulation of Public Budgets and Budgeting
  • 2.1 Principles of Budgeting, Structures and Classifications
  • 2.2 The Budget Cycle
  • 2.3 Recent Budgetary Reforms
  • 3 Basic Regulation for the 'Fiscal Constitution' in the Basic Law
  • 4 Public Expenditure
  • 5 Public Sector Revenue
  • 5.1 Revenue in General
  • 5.2 Tax Revenue
  • 5.3 Intergovernmental Financial Relations: Multilevel Tax Sharing Assignment
  • 6 Public Debt
  • 7 Local Finance
  • 8 Lessons Learned
  • References
  • Part III: Redrawing Structures, Boundaries and Service Delivery
  • Chapter 15: Transformation of Public Administration in East Germany Following Unification
  • Chapter 16: Administrative Reforms in the Multilevel System: Reshuffling Tasks and Territories.
  • 1 Introduction.