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  -