TY - JOUR A1 - Bach, Tobias A1 - Jann, Werner T1 - Animals in the administrative zoo : organizational change and agency autonomy in Germany N2 - Although Germany does not figure among the 'forerunners' of managerial reforms of the public sector, it has a long tradition of agencies and non-departmental bodies at the federal level. Over time, the federal administration has developed into a highly differentiated 'administrative zoo' with a large number of species, questioning the image of a well-ordered German bureaucracy. The article addresses organizational changes among non-ministerial agencies during the past 20 years and ministry-agency relations, drawing on data from a comprehensive survey of the federal administration. The structural changes we observe are neither comprehensive nor planned; they are much more evolutionary than revolutionary, driven by sectoral policies and not by any overall agency policy, supported more by regulatory than by managerial reforms, and most of the changes are horizontal mergers or successions of existing organizations, while we find almost no evidence for hiving-off from ministries to agencies. At the same time, federal agencies report a lot of bureaucratic discretion, whereas they perceive substantial levels of 'red tape' due to administrative regulations. We also find that traditional, hierarchical modes of ministerial oversight are still dominating; only few agencies have performance agreements with measurable goals. Y1 - 2010 UR - http://ras.sagepub.com/ U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0020852310372448 SN - 0020-8523 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bouckaert, Geert A1 - Jann, Werner A1 - Maron, Fabienne A1 - Ongaro, Edoardo A1 - Sofiane, Sahraoui T1 - Conclusion: EGPA, EPPA an the Future of Public Administration in Europa JF - Public Administration in Europe : The Contribution of EGPA N2 - This chapter outlines the strategy of the European Group for Public Administration (EGPA) and reflects on some of its key strengths, and how these may equip the European community of scholars and practitioners of public administration (PA) to contribute to the development of the field. The chapter reviews the key trait of the EGPA organisational model: the Permanent Study Groups, which are communities of scholars centred on the key areas of the administrative sciences in Europe. It also discusses the partnerships that EGPA has developed with key institutions in Europe and beyond, and highlights the significance of the EGPA policy papers on European governance. Finally, it discusses the strategic, forward-looking project European Perspectives on Public Administration, which aims to reflect on the future of the research and teaching of public administration. Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-3-319-92855-5 SN - 978-3-319-92856-2 U6 - https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92856-2_32 SP - 355 EP - 361 PB - Palgrave Macmillan CY - Cham ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jann, Werner T1 - Public administration under pressure : the search for new forms of public governance Y1 - 2007 UR - http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/UN/UNPAN028493.pdf SN - 978-92-1-123175-5 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jann, Werner T1 - State, administration and governance in Germany: competing traditions and dominant narratives Y1 - 2003 ER - 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 - JOUR A1 - Jann, Werner T1 - Common security in the Baltic Sea region : the view from the German Länder Y1 - 1994 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jann, Werner T1 - Cooperation in nothern Europe for an active society Y1 - 1994 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jann, Werner T1 - Public management in Germany : a revolution without a theory? Y1 - 1996 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jann, Werner T1 - Report of the working group on transparency, openness and service to the public Y1 - 1998 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jann, Werner T1 - Public management reform in Germany : a revolution without a theory? Y1 - 1997 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jann, Werner T1 - Managing parliaments in the 21st Century : from Policy-Making and Public Management to Governance Y1 - 2001 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Jann, Werner ED - Hickmann, Thomas ED - Lederer, Markus T1 - The modern state and administrative reform BT - the times they are a-changin’ T2 - Leidenschaft und Augenmaß : sozialwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf Entwicklung, Verwaltung, Umwelt und Klima : Festschrift für Harald Fuhr Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-3-8487-5249-2 SN - 978-3-8452-9429-2 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845294292-59 SP - 59 EP - 72 PB - Nomos CY - Baden-Baden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jann, Werner A1 - Bach, Tobias T1 - Structure and governance of agencies in Germany : a lot of continuity and little change Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-82-450-0754-1 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Jann, Werner A1 - Bach, Tobias A1 - Fleischer, Julia A1 - Hustedt, Thurid T1 - Best practice in governance of agencies : a comparative study in view of identifying best practice for governing agencies carrying out activities on behalf of the European Union Y1 - 2008 PB - Europäisches Parlament CY - Brüssel ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Jann, Werner A1 - Bach, Tobias A1 - Fleischer, Julia A1 - Jantz, Bastian A1 - Hustedt, Thurid T1 - Opportunity and feasibility of establishing common support services for EU agencies Y1 - 2008 UR - http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/documents/dv/2009_powerpoint_agencies_/ 2009_powerpoint_agencies_en.pdf PB - Europäisches Parlament CY - Brüssel ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Jann, Werner A1 - Bouckaert, Geert ED - Kuhlmann, Sabine ED - Schwab, Oliver T1 - Current and Future Trends in European Public Sector Research T2 - Starke Kommunen - wirksame Verwaltung : Fortschritte und Fallstricke der internationalen Verwaltungs- und Kommunalforschung N2 - Emmanuel Kant asked three important questions which will always be with us: What can we know? What should we do? What may we hope for? These three key existentialist questions are, of course, also relevant for a reflection on the future of Public Administration: What can we know, as researchers in the field of Public Administration, about our object of public administration? What should we do as researchers and teachers to make sure we remain part of a solution and to guarantee that we are ahead of reality and its future problems? What kind of improvement (or not) may we hope for a public sector in an increasingly complex society? This chapter tries to explore some possible answers to these three important questions for our field of Public Administration. The background is our common project about ‘European Perspectives for Public Administration’ (EPPA), which we hope to establish as a continuous dialogue and discourse in the context of European Public Administration and the ‘European Group for Public Administration’ (EGPA). Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-3-658-17134-6 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-17135-3_4 SP - 43 EP - 61 PB - Springer VS CY - Wiesbaden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jann, Werner A1 - Döhler, Marian T1 - Germany Y1 - 2002 UR - http://www.oecd.org/pdf/M00021000/M00021217.pdf ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jann, Werner A1 - Fleischer, Julia T1 - Shefting discourses, steady learning and sedimentation : the German reform trajectory in the long run Y1 - 2011 SN - 978-0-415-55721-4 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jann, Werner A1 - Jantz, Bastian T1 - A better performance and performance management? Y1 - 2008 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jann, Werner A1 - Jantz, Bastian T1 - Mapping accountability changes in labour market administration : from concentrated to shared accountability? Y1 - 2013 ER -