TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kuhlmann, Sabine
A1  - Bogumil, Jörg
T1  - Administrative Reforms in the Multilevel System
BT  - Reshuffling Tasks and Territories
JF  - Public Administration in Germany
N2  - The chapter analyses recent reforms in the multilevel system of the Länder, specifically territorial, functional and structural reforms, which represent three of the most crucial and closely interconnected reform trajectories at the subnational level. It sheds light on the variety of reform approaches pursued in the different Länder and also highlights some factors that account for these differences. The transfer of state functions to local governments is addressed as well as the restructuring of Länder administrations (e.g. abolishment of the meso level of the Länder administration and of single-purpose state agencies) and the rescaling of territorial boundaries at county and municipal levels, including a brief review of the recently failed (territorial) reforms in Eastern Germany.
Y1  - 2021
SN  - 978-3-030-53696-1
SN  - 978-3-030-53697-8
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53697-8_16
SP  - 271
EP  - 289
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
CY  - Cham
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kuhlmann, Sabine
A1  - Proeller, Isabella
A1  - Schiemanke, Dieter
A1  - Ziekow, Jan
T1  - German Public Administration
BT  - Background and Key Issues
JF  - Public Administration in Germany
N2  - The international community of public administration and administrative sciences shows a great interest in the basic features of the German administrative system. The German public administration with its formative decentralisation (called: administrative federalism) is regarded as a prime example of multilevel governance and strong local self-government. Furthermore, over the past decades, the traditional profile of the German administrative system has significantly been reshaped and remoulded through reforms, processes of modernisation and the transformation process in East Germany. Studies on the German administrative system should focus especially on

    key institutional features of public administration;

    changing relationships between public administration, society and the private sector;

    administrative reforms at different levels of the federal system; and

    new challenges and modernisation approaches, such as digitalisation, open government and better regulation.
Y1  - 2021
SN  - 978-3-030-53696-1
SN  - 978-3-030-53697-8
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53697-8_1
SP  - 1
EP  - 13
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
CY  - Cham
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kuhlmann, Sabine
A1  - Veit, Sylvia
T1  - The Federal Ministerial Bureaucracy, the Legislative Process and Better Regulation
JF  - Public Administration in Germany
N2  - Over the last decades, Better Regulation has become a major reform topic at the federal and—in some cases—also at the Länder level. Although the debate about improving regulatory quality and reducing unnecessary burdens created by bureaucracy and red tape date back to the 1960s and 1970s, the introduction by law in 2006 of a new independent institutionalised body for regulatory control at the federal level of government has brought a new quality to the discourse and practice of Better Regulation in Germany. This chapter introduces the basic features of the legislative process at the federal level in Germany, addresses the issue of Better Regulation and outlines the role of the National Regulatory Control Council (Nationaler Normenkontrollrat—NKR) as a ‘watchdog’ for compliance costs, red tape and regulatory impacts.
Y1  - 2021
SN  - 978-3-030-53696-1
SN  - 978-3-030-53697-8
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53697-8_20
SP  - 357
EP  - 373
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
CY  - Cham
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Schwab, Christian
A1  - Bogumil, Jörg
A1  - Kuhlmann, Sabine
A1  - Gerber, Sascha
T1  - Digitalisierung von Verwaltungsleistungen in Bürgerämtern
T2  - Handbuch Digitalisierung in Staat und Verwaltung
N2  - Die Digitalisierung der öffentlichen Leistungserbringung für die Bürger bildet gegenwärtig einen Schwerpunkt der Modernisierungsaktivitäten in Staat und Verwaltung. Hinsichtlich der digitalen Informationsbereitstellung hat es zwar deutliche Fortschritte gegeben, insgesamt zeigt sich jedoch eine allenfalls moderate „E-Government-Performanz“ bei der digitalen Kommunikation zwischen Verwaltung und Bürgern sowie bei Transaktionen, d. h. der medienbruchfreien Abschließbarkeit von Verwaltungsvorgängen. Als wesentliche Gründe für die ernüchternde Bilanz der lokalen Verwaltungsdigitalisierung sind neben technischen, rechtlichen, finanziellen und personellen Barrieren insbesondere politische und institutionelle Hürden zu nennen. Viele Probleme sind zudem auch bei E-Government-Funktionen (z. B. der Online-Formulare oder elektronischen Bezahlmöglichkeiten) zu verzeichnen. Positiv schneidet dagegen die elektronische Terminvergabe ab, die in den Bürgerämtern zu wesentlichen Prozess- und Serviceverbesserungen geführt hat. Allerdings sind neben positiven Effekten, wie beispielsweise schnelleren Bearbeitungszeiten und kürzeren Wartezeiten, auch dysfunktionale Digitalisierungseffekte zu verzeichnen, wie erhöhter Arbeitsstress aufgrund eines gestiegenen Kommunikationsaufkommens (v. a. durch Email) und der damit einhergehenden Verlagerung des Arbeitsaufkommens vom Frontoffice ins Backoffice.
Y1  - 2020
SN  - 978-3-658-23667-0
SN  - 978-3-658-23668-7
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-23668-7
SP  - 437
EP  - 448
PB  - Springer
CY  - Wiesbaden
ER  -