TY  - CHAP
A1  - Jann, Werner
ED  - Lægreid, Per
ED  - Cristensen, Tom
T1  - Accountability, performance and legitimacy in the welfare state
BT  - If accountability is the answer, what was the question?
T2  - The Routledge Handbook to Accountability and Welfare State Reforms in Europe
N2  - Accountability is one of the most widely discussed concepts of public administration research and teaching in the last decade. But why is this case? Obviously accountability is, like its counterpart transparency, a “magic concept”, and an indispensable part of the prominent and omnipresent discourse on “good governance” as well as a significant element in debates about public sector reform. The same holds true for performance, which has been a magic and contested concept ever since New Public Management (NPM) entered the discourse about “modern” processes and structures of the public sector. But the third term in the title of this paper, legitimacy, even though it is one of the basic concepts of political science and democracy and is at the heart of Max Weber's theory of bureaucracy, has been surprisingly absent from current debates about the challenges of modern public administration, and for that sake also about the future of the welfare state. This chapter argues that different concepts of legitimacy lie at the heart of most debates about accountability and performance (input, output and throughput legitimacy), and that a better understanding of the relationships between accountability, performance and legitimacy can clarify some of the puzzles of contemporary research.
Y1  - 2016
SN  - 978-1-4724-7059-1 (print)
SN  - 978-1-315-61271-3 (epub)
SP  - 31
EP  - 44
PB  - Routledge
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Zimmermann, Andreas
A1  - Devaney, James G.
T1  - Succession to treaties and the inherent limits of international law
T2  - Research handbook on the law of treaties
Y1  - 2016
SN  - 978-1-78536-951-3
SP  - 505
EP  - 540
PB  - Elgar
CY  - Cheltenham
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Kuhlmann, Sabine
ED  - Wang, Yukai
ED  - Färber, Gisela
T1  - Local Government in Germany
BT  - Key Features and Current Reforms
T2  - Comparative Studies on Vertical Administration Reforms in China and Germany (Speyerer Forschungsberichte ; 285)
KW  - China
KW  - Deutschland
KW  - Verwaltungsreform
KW  - China
KW  - Germany
KW  - administrative reform
Y1  - 2016
SN  - 978-3-941738-23-2
SP  - 51
EP  - 67
PB  - Deutsches Forschungsinstitut für öffentliche Verwaltung
CY  - Speyer
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Kuhlmann, Sabine
A1  - Bouckaert, Geert
T1  - Conclusion : Tensions, Challenges, and Future "Flags" of Local Public Sector Reforms and Comparative
T2  - Local Public Sector Reforms in Times of Crisis : national trajectories and international comparisons
Y1  - 2016
SN  - 978-1-137-52547-5
SP  - 347
EP  - 354
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
CY  - London
ER  -