TY  - CHAP
A1  - Kuhlmann, Sabine
A1  - Marienfeldt, Justine
ED  - Teles, Filipe
T1  - Comparing local government systems and reforms in Europe
BT  - from new public management to digital era governance?
T2  - Handbook on local and regional governance
N2  - The study of subnational and local government systems and reforms has become an increasingly salient topic in comparative public administration. In many European countries, policy implementation, the execution of public tasks and the delivery of services to citizens are largely carried out by local governments, which, at the same time, have been subjected to multiple reforms and sometimes comprehensive institutional re-organizations. This chapter discusses analytical key concepts and outcomes of the comparative study of local governments and local government reforms. It outlines frameworks and analytical tools to capture the variety of institutional settings and developments at the local level of government. It provides an introduction into crucial comparative dimensions, such as functional, territorial and political profiles of local governments, and analyses current reform approaches and outcomes based on recent empirical findings. Finally, the chapter addresses salient issues to be taken up in future comparative studies about local government.
KW  - comparative public administration
KW  - local government systems
KW  - digitalization
KW  - territorial reforms
KW  - decentralization
KW  - (post) new public management
Y1  - 2023
SN  - 978-1-80037-119-4
SN  - 978-1-80037-120-0
U6  - https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800371200.00033
SP  - 313
EP  - 329
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  -