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Note: Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Praise for Public Administration in Germany -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 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 -- 1 Transformation of Public Administration in East Germany Following Unification -- 1.1 Institution Transfer -- 1.2 Personnel Transfer and 'Elite Import' from West to East -- 1.3 Financial Transfer -- 2 Organisational Transformation. , 2.1 Transformation of the GDR's State Economy: The Activities of the Treuhandanstalt, THA (Trust Agency).

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Content: This open access book presents a topical, comprehensive and differentiated analysis of Germany's public administration and reforms. It provides an overview on key elements of German public administration at the federal, Länder and local levels of government as well as on current reform activities of the public sector. It examines the key institutional features of German public administration; the changing relationships between public administration, society and the private sector; the administrative reforms at different levels of the federal system and numerous sectors; and new challenges and modernization approaches like digitalization, Open Government and Better Regulation. Each chapter offers a combination of descriptive information and problem-oriented analysis, presenting key topical issues in Germany which are relevant to an international readership. Sabine Kuhlmann is Professor of Political Science, Public Administration and Organization at Potsdam University, Germany, Vice President of the IIAS for Western Europe, and Vice-Chair of the National Regulatory Control Council of the German Federal Government. Isabella Proeller is Professor for Public and Nonprofit Management at the University of Potsdam, Germany. Dieter Schimanke is former Professor of Public Administration at the Helmut-Schmidt-University in Hamburg, Germany. He became Secretary of State in a state in East Germany after unification and since his retirement, he is Senior Expert in projects of GIZ on reforms of Public Administration (mainly in Eastern Europe and Asia). Jan Ziekow is Professor of Public Law and the Director of the German Research Institute for Public Administration, Germany, Vice-President and former President of the German Section of IIAS.

Note: 1. German Public Administration: Background and Key Issues -- 2. Constitutional State and Public Administration -- 3. Administrative federalism -- 4. Europeanisation and German Public Administration -- 5. Federal Administration -- 6. The Federal Administration of Interior Affairs -- 7. The Peculiarities of the Social Security System (indirect state administration) -- 8. The administration of the Länder -- 9. Local Self-Government and Administration -- 10. Politics and Administration in Germany -- 11. Administrative Procedures and Processes -- 12. Control and Accountability: Administrative Courts and Courts of Audit -- 13. Civil Service and Public Employment -- 14. Public Finance -- 15. Transformation of public administration in East Germany following Unification -- 16. Administrative Reforms in the Multilevel System: Reshuffling Tasks and Territories -- 17. Institutional Differentiation of Public Service Provision in Germany: Corporatization, Privitization and Re-Municipalization -- 18. Participatory Administration and Co-Production -- 19. Digital Transformation of the German State -- 20. The Federal Ministerial Bureaucracy, the Legislative Process and Better Regulation -- 21. Human Resource Management in German Public Administration -- 22. Public Management Reforms in Germany: New Steering Model and Financial Management Reforms.

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Content: Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Praise for Public Administration in Germany -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 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.

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Content: MACHINE-GENERATED SUMMARY NOTE: "This open access book presents a topical, comprehensive and differentiated analysis of Germany's public administration and reforms. It provides an overview on key elements of German public administration at the federal, Länder and local levels of government as well as on current reform activities of the public sector. It examines the key institutional features of German public administration; the changing relationships between public administration, society and the private sector; the administrative reforms at different levels of the federal system and numerous sectors; and new challenges and modernization approaches like digitalization, Open Government and Better Regulation. Each chapter offers a combination of descriptive information and problem-oriented analysis, presenting key topical issues in Germany which are relevant to an international readership."

Note: MACHINE-GENERATED CONTENTS NOTE: 1. German Public Administration: Background and Key Issues (Sabine Kuhlmann, Isabella Proelle, Dieter Schimanke and Jan Ziekow) Part I German Publication Administration in the Multilevel System 2. Constitutional State and Public Administration (Karl-Peter Sommermann) 3. Administrative federalism (Nathalie Behnke and Sabine Kropp) 4. The European Context of the German Public Administration (Hans Hofmann) 5. Federal Administration (Julia Flesicher) 6. The Federal administration of Interior Affairs (Hans Heinrich von Knobloch) 7. The Peculiarities of the Social Security System ('indirect state administration') (Dieter Schimanke) 8. The administration of the Länder (Ludger Schrapper) 9. Local Self-Government and Administration (Kay Ruge and Klaus Ritgen) Part II Politics, Procedures and Resources 10. Politics and Administration in Germany (Werner Jann and Sylvia Veit) 11. Administrative Procedures and Processes (Jan Ziekow) 12. Control and Accountability: Administrative Courts and Courts of Audit (Veith Mehde) 13. Civil Service and Public Employment (Christoph Reichard and Eckhard Schröter) 14. Public Finance (Gisela Färber) Part III Redrawing Structures, Boundaries and Service Delivery 15. The transformation of public administration in East Germany following Unification (Hellmut Wollmann) 16. Administrative Reforms in the Multilevel System: Reshuffling Tasks and Territories (Sabine Kuhlmann and Jörg Bogumil) 17. Institutional Differentiation of Public Service Provision in Germany: Corporatization, Privitization and Re-Municipalization (Benjamin Friedländer, Manfred Röber and Christina Schaefer) 18. Participatory Administration and Co-Production (Stephan Grohs) Part IV Modernizing Processes and Enhancing Management Capacities 19. Digital Transformation of the German State (Ines Mergel) 20. Supplement: Open Government (Jan Porth, Friederike Bickmann, Patrick Schweizer and Zarina Tölle) 21. The Federal Ministerial Bureaucracy, the Legislative Process and Better Regulation (Sabine Kuhlmann and Slyvia Veit) 22. Human Resource Management, Performance-Related Pay and Public Service Motivation (John Siegel and Isabella Proeller) 23. New Steering Model, Performance management, Benchmarking (Isabella Proeller and Jon Siegel).

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Content: This open access book presents a topical, comprehensive and differentiated analysis of Germany’s public administration and reforms. It provides an overview on key elements of German public administration at the federal, Länder and local levels of government as well as on current reform activities of the public sector. It examines the key institutional features of German public administration; the changing relationships between public administration, society and the private sector; the administrative reforms at different levels of the federal system and numerous sectors; and new challenges and modernization approaches like digitalization, Open Government and Better Regulation. Each chapter offers a combination of descriptive information and problem-oriented analysis, presenting key topical issues in Germany which are relevant to an international readership. Sabine Kuhlmann is Professor of Political Science, Public Administration and Organization at Potsdam University, Germany, Vice President of the IIAS for Western Europe, and Vice-Chair of the National Regulatory Control Council of the German Federal Government. Isabella Proeller is Professor for Public and Nonprofit Management at the University of Potsdam, Germany. Dieter Schimanke is former Professor of Public Administration at the Helmut-Schmidt-University in Hamburg, Germany. He became Secretary of State in a state in East Germany after unification and since his retirement, he is Senior Expert in projects of GIZ on reforms of Public Administration (mainly in Eastern Europe and Asia). Jan Ziekow is Professor of Public Law and the Director of the German Research Institute for Public Administration, Germany, Vice-President and former President of the German Section of IIAS.

Note: 1. German Public Administration: Background and Key Issues -- 2. Constitutional State and Public Administration -- 3. Administrative federalism -- 4. The European Context of the German Public Administration -- 5. Federal Administration -- 6. The Federal administration of Interior Affairs -- 7. The Peculiarities of the Social Security System ('indirect state administration') -- 8. The administration of the Länder -- 9. Local Self-Government and Administration -- 10. Politics and Administration in Germany -- 11. Administrative Procedures and Processes -- 12. Control and Accountability: Administrative Courts and Courts of Audit -- 13. Civil Service and Public Employment -- 14. Public Finance -- 15. The transformation of public administration in East Germany following Unification -- 16. Administrative Reforms in the Multilevel System: Reshuffling Tasks and Territories -- 17. Institutional Differentiation of Public Service Provision in Germany: Corporatization, Privitization and Re-Municipalization -- 18. Participatory Administration and Co-Production -- 19. Digital Transformation of the German State -- 20. Supplement: Open Government -- 21. The Federal Ministerial Bureaucracy, the Legislative Process and Better Regulation -- 22. Human Resource Management, Performance-Related Pay and Public Service Motivation -- 23. New Steering Model, Performance management, Benchmarking. , English

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Content: This open access book presents a topical, comprehensive and differentiated analysis of Germany’s public administration and reforms. It provides an overview on key elements of German public administration at the federal, Länder and local levels of government as well as on current reform activities of the public sector. It examines the key institutional features of German public administration; the changing relationships between public administration, society and the private sector; the administrative reforms at different levels of the federal system and numerous sectors; and new challenges and modernization approaches like digitalization, Open Government and Better Regulation. Each chapter offers a combination of descriptive information and problem-oriented analysis, presenting key topical issues in Germany which are relevant to an international readership. Sabine Kuhlmann is Professor of Political Science, Public Administration and Organization at Potsdam University, Germany, Vice President of the IIAS for Western Europe, and Vice-Chair of the National Regulatory Control Council of the German Federal Government. Isabella Proeller is Professor for Public and Nonprofit Management at the University of Potsdam, Germany. Dieter Schimanke is former Professor of Public Administration at the Helmut-Schmidt-University in Hamburg, Germany. He became Secretary of State in a state in East Germany after unification and since his retirement, he is Senior Expert in projects of GIZ on reforms of Public Administration (mainly in Eastern Europe and Asia). Jan Ziekow is Professor of Public Law and the Director of the German Research Institute for Public Administration, Germany, Vice-President and former President of the German Section of IIAS.

Note: 1. German Public Administration: Background and Key Issues -- 2. Constitutional State and Public Administration -- 3. Administrative federalism -- 4. The European Context of the German Public Administration -- 5. Federal Administration -- 6. The Federal administration of Interior Affairs -- 7. The Peculiarities of the Social Security System ('indirect state administration') -- 8. The administration of the Länder -- 9. Local Self-Government and Administration -- 10. Politics and Administration in Germany -- 11. Administrative Procedures and Processes -- 12. Control and Accountability: Administrative Courts and Courts of Audit -- 13. Civil Service and Public Employment -- 14. Public Finance -- 15. The transformation of public administration in East Germany following Unification -- 16. Administrative Reforms in the Multilevel System: Reshuffling Tasks and Territories -- 17. Institutional Differentiation of Public Service Provision in Germany: Corporatization, Privitization and Re-Municipalization -- 18. Participatory Administration and Co-Production -- 19. Digital Transformation of the German State -- 20. Supplement: Open Government -- 21. The Federal Ministerial Bureaucracy, the Legislative Process and Better Regulation -- 22. Human Resource Management, Performance-Related Pay and Public Service Motivation -- 23. New Steering Model, Performance management, Benchmarking. , English

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Content: This open access book presents a topical, comprehensive and differentiated analysis of Germany’s public administration and reforms. It provides an overview on key elements of German public administration at the federal, Länder and local levels of government as well as on current reform activities of the public sector. It examines the key institutional features of German public administration; the changing relationships between public administration, society and the private sector; the administrative reforms at different levels of the federal system and numerous sectors; and new challenges and modernization approaches like digitalization, Open Government and Better Regulation. Each chapter offers a combination of descriptive information and problem-oriented analysis, presenting key topical issues in Germany which are relevant to an international readership. Sabine Kuhlmann is Professor of Political Science, Public Administration and Organization at Potsdam University, Germany, Vice President of the IIAS for Western Europe, and Vice-Chair of the National Regulatory Control Council of the German Federal Government. Isabella Proeller is Professor for Public and Nonprofit Management at the University of Potsdam, Germany. Dieter Schimanke is former Professor of Public Administration at the Helmut-Schmidt-University in Hamburg, Germany. He became Secretary of State in a state in East Germany after unification and since his retirement, he is Senior Expert in projects of GIZ on reforms of Public Administration (mainly in Eastern Europe and Asia). Jan Ziekow is Professor of Public Law and the Director of the German Research Institute for Public Administration, Germany, Vice-President and former President of the German Section of IIAS.

Note: 1. German Public Administration: Background and Key Issues -- 2. Constitutional State and Public Administration -- 3. Administrative federalism -- 4. The European Context of the German Public Administration -- 5. Federal Administration -- 6. The Federal administration of Interior Affairs -- 7. The Peculiarities of the Social Security System ('indirect state administration') -- 8. The administration of the Länder -- 9. Local Self-Government and Administration -- 10. Politics and Administration in Germany -- 11. Administrative Procedures and Processes -- 12. Control and Accountability: Administrative Courts and Courts of Audit -- 13. Civil Service and Public Employment -- 14. Public Finance -- 15. The transformation of public administration in East Germany following Unification -- 16. Administrative Reforms in the Multilevel System: Reshuffling Tasks and Territories -- 17. Institutional Differentiation of Public Service Provision in Germany: Corporatization, Privitization and Re-Municipalization -- 18. Participatory Administration and Co-Production -- 19. Digital Transformation of the German State -- 20. Supplement: Open Government -- 21. The Federal Ministerial Bureaucracy, the Legislative Process and Better Regulation -- 22. Human Resource Management, Performance-Related Pay and Public Service Motivation -- 23. New Steering Model, Performance management, Benchmarking. , English

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Content: This open access book presents a topical, comprehensive and differentiated analysis of Germany's public administration and reforms. It provides an overview on key elements of German public administration at the federal, Länder and local levels of government as well as on current reform activities of the public sector. It examines the key institutional features of German public administration; the changing relationships between public administration, society and the private sector; the administrative reforms at different levels of the federal system and numerous sectors; and new challenges and modernization approaches like digitalization, Open Government and Better Regulation. Each chapter offers a combination of descriptive information and problem-oriented analysis, presenting key topical issues in Germany which are relevant to an international readership. Sabine Kuhlmann is Professor of Political Science, Public Administration and Organization at Potsdam University, Germany, Vice President of the IIAS for Western Europe, and Vice-Chair of the National Regulatory Control Council of the German Federal Government. Isabella Proeller is Professor for Public and Nonprofit Management at the University of Potsdam, Germany. Dieter Schimanke is former Professor of Public Administration at the Helmut-Schmidt-University in Hamburg, Germany. He became Secretary of State in a state in East Germany after unification and since his retirement, he is Senior Expert in projects of GIZ on reforms of Public Administration (mainly in Eastern Europe and Asia). Jan Ziekow is Professor of Public Law and the Director of the German Research Institute for Public Administration, Germany, Vice-President and former President of the German Section of IIAS.

Note: 1. German Public Administration: Background and Key Issues -- 2. Constitutional State and Public Administration -- 3. Administrative federalism -- 4. The European Context of the German Public Administration -- 5. Federal Administration -- 6. The Federal administration of Interior Affairs -- 7. The Peculiarities of the Social Security System ('indirect state administration') -- 8. The administration of the Länder -- 9. Local Self-Government and Administration -- 10. Politics and Administration in Germany -- 11. Administrative Procedures and Processes -- 12. Control and Accountability: Administrative Courts and Courts of Audit -- 13. Civil Service and Public Employment -- 14. Public Finance -- 15. The transformation of public administration in East Germany following Unification -- 16. Administrative Reforms in the Multilevel System: Reshuffling Tasks and Territories -- 17. Institutional Differentiation of Public Service Provision in Germany: Corporatization, Privitization and Re-Municipalization -- 18. Participatory Administration and Co-Production -- 19. Digital Transformation of the German State -- 20. Supplement: Open Government -- 21. The Federal Ministerial Bureaucracy, the Legislative Process and Better Regulation -- 22. Human Resource Management, Performance-Related Pay and Public Service Motivation -- 23. New Steering Model, Performance management, Benchmarking.

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