TY  - CHAP
A1  - Kuhlmann, Sabine
A1  - Veit, Sylvia
ED  - Varone, Frédéric
ED  - Jacob, Steve
ED  - Bundi, Pirmin
T1  - Evaluation of and in public administration
T2  - Handbook of public policy evaluation
N2  - 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.
KW  - administrative reform
KW  - new public management
KW  - public administration
KW  - institutionalization of evaluation
KW  - typology of evaluation
KW  - better regulation
Y1  - 2023
SN  - 9781800884892
U6  - https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800884892.00023
SP  - 220
EP  - 237
PB  - Edward Elgar Publishing
CY  - Cheltenham, UK
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Kuhlmann, Sabine
ED  - Goldfinch, Shaun F.
T1  - From Weberian bureaucracy to digital government?
BT  - trajectories of administrative reform in Germany
T2  - Handbook of public administration reform
N2  - 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.
KW  - neo weberian state
KW  - digitalization
KW  - new public management
KW  - territorial reforms
KW  - intergovernmental reforms
KW  - Germany
Y1  - 2023
SN  - 978-1-80037-674-8
SN  - 978-1-80037-673-1
U6  - https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800376748.00016
SP  - 207
EP  - 226
PB  - Edward Elgar Publishing
CY  - Cheltenham, UK
ER  -