@incollection{KuhlmannVeit2023,
  author    = {Kuhlmann, Sabine and Veit, Sylvia},
  title     = {Evaluation of and in public administration},
  series = {Handbook of public policy evaluation},
  booktitle = {Handbook of public policy evaluation},
  editor    = {Varone, Fr{\´e}d{\´e}ric and Jacob, Steve and Bundi, Pirmin},
  publisher = {Edward Elgar Publishing},
  address   = {Cheltenham, UK},
  isbn      = {9781800884892},
  doi       = {10.4337/9781800884892.00023},
  pages     = {220 -- 237},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {This chapter addresses the role of evaluation of and in public administration. We focus on two analytical key dimensions: a) the provider of the evaluation and b) the subject of the evaluation. Four major types of evaluation are distinguished: (1) external institutional evaluation, (2) internal institutional evaluation, (3) external evaluation of administrative action/results, (4) internal evaluation of administrative action/results. Type 1 and 2 refer to evaluation of administrative structures and processes as the subject of administrative reform. Type 3 and 4 represent different versions of evaluation in public administration, because the subject is administrative action and its outputs. The chapter highlights salient approaches and organizational settings of evaluation and provides insights into the institutionalization of an evaluation function in public administration. Finally, the chapter draws lessons regarding strengths and potentials but also remaining weaknesses and challenges of evaluation of and in public administration.},
  language  = {en}
}
@incollection{Kuhlmann2023,
  author    = {Kuhlmann, Sabine},
  title     = {From Weberian bureaucracy to digital government?},
  series = {Handbook of public administration reform},
  booktitle = {Handbook of public administration reform},
  editor    = {Goldfinch, Shaun F.},
  publisher = {Edward Elgar Publishing},
  address   = {Cheltenham, UK},
  isbn      = {978-1-80037-674-8},
  doi       = {10.4337/9781800376748.00016},
  pages     = {207 -- 226},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {Over the past decades, the traditional profile of the German administrative system has significantly been reshaped and remoulded through reforms and transformations. Manifold modernization efforts have been undertaken to adjust administrative structures and procedures to increasing challenges and pressures. In this chapter, the attempt is made to outline major institutional reform paths in Germany from Weberian bureaucracy to most recent reforms towards a digital transformation of public administration. We will show to what extent the German administrative system has moved away from the classical Weberian bureaucracy to a hybrid system where elements of the 'old' model and new reform paradigms such as the NPM and digital government are hybridized, labelled the Neo Weberian State. The question will be addressed as to what extent this shift has taken shape and which hurdles and path-dependencies can be identified to explain partial persistence and continuity over time.},
  language  = {en}
}