TY - JOUR A1 - Jann, Werner A1 - Veit, Sylvia T1 - Politics and Administration in Germany JF - Public Administration in Germany N2 - Although German bureaucracy is typically categorised as Weberian, a clear distinction between politics and administration has never been a defining characteristic of the German political-administrative system. Many close interrelations and interactions between elected politicians and appointed civil servants can be observed at all levels of administration. Higher-ranking civil servants in Germany are used to and generally appreciate the functional politicisation of their jobs, that is their close involvement in all stages of the policy process, from policy formation, goal definition, negotiation within and outside government to the implementation and evaluation of policies. For top positions, therefore, a class of ‘political civil servants’ is a special feature of the German system, and obtaining ‘political craft’ has become an important part of the learning and job experience of higher-ranking civil servants. KW - Politicisation KW - Political civil servant KW - Weberian bureaucracy KW - Political craft KW - Civil service career Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-3-030-53696-1 SN - 978-3-030-53697-8 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53697-8_10 SP - 145 EP - 161 PB - Palgrave Macmillan CY - Cham ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Bogumil, Jörg A1 - Jann, Werner T1 - Verwaltung und Verwaltungswissenschaft in Deutschland BT - Einführung in die Verwaltungswissenschaft T3 - Grundwissen Politik N2 - Die Autoren haben mit diesem Buch den ersten politikwissenschaftlichen Lehrtext zum Thema Verwaltung und Verwaltungswissenschaften in Deutschland vorgelegt. Die spezifisch sozialwissenschaftlichen Perspektiven unterscheiden diese Studie vom bislang vorliegenden vor allem juristisch geprägten Lehrmaterial. Dargestellt werden die Entwicklung und Perspektiven der Verwaltungswissenschaften sowie der institutionelle Aufbau, die internen Strukturen und Prozesse sowie die Entwicklungsphasen der öffentlichen Verwaltung in Deutschland. Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-3-658-28407-7 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-28408-4 PB - Springer CY - Wiesbaden ET - 3., vollständig überarbeitete Aufl. 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 - Wegrich, Kai T1 - Generalists and specialists in executive politics: Why ambitious meta-policies so often fail JF - Public administration N2 - This article contributes to the politics of policy‐making in executive government. It introduces the analytical distinction between generalists and specialists as antagonistic players in executive politics and develops the claim that policy specialists are in a structurally advantaged position to succeed in executive politics and to fend off attempts by generalists to influence policy choices through cross‐cutting reform measures. Contrary to traditional textbook public administration, we explain the views of generalists and specialists not through their training but their positions within an organization. We combine established approaches from public policy and organization theory to substantiate this claim and to define the dilemma that generalists face when developing government‐wide reform policies (‘meta‐policies’) as well as strategies to address this problem. The article suggests that the conceptual distinction between generalists and specialists allows for a more precise analysis of the challenges for policy‐making across government organizations than established approaches. Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12614 SN - 0033-3298 SN - 1467-9299 VL - 97 IS - 4 SP - 845 EP - 860 PB - Wiley CY - Hoboken ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jann, Werner T1 - Verwaltungswissenschaft, Policy-Forschung und Managementlehre JF - Handbuch zur Verwaltungsreform Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-3-658-21562-0 SP - 27 EP - 37 PB - Springer CY - Wiesbaden ET - 5., vollständig überarb. Aufl. ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jann, Werner T1 - Neues Steuerungsmodell JF - Handbuch zur Verwaltungsreform Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-3-658-21562-0 SP - 127 EP - 138 PB - Springer CY - Wiesbaden ET - 5., vollständig überarb. Aufl. ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jann, Werner A1 - Jantz, Bastian A1 - Kuehne, Alexander A1 - Schulze-Gabrechten, Lena T1 - The Flood Crisis in Germany 2013 JF - Societal Security and Crisis Management N2 - In 2013, large floods affected Germany heavily. The natural disaster transcended jurisdictional and organisational boundaries, necessitating a coordinative effort by disaster relief forces and their administrative and political leadership. In the aftermath, politicians and experts praised the improvement of the German system of crisis management, also in direct comparison with the response to the last German “flood of the century” of 2002. This chapter takes a public policy and organisational perspective to analyse the German disaster relief governance throughout all four crisis management phases. By highlighting the central features of the German governance arrangements and the main organisational changes implemented in reaction to the previous flood in 2002, we find that Whole-of-Government approaches are increasingly used by the federal and Länder government. Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-3-319-92303-1 SN - 978-3-319-92302-4 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92303-1_4 SP - 75 EP - 93 PB - Palgrave Macmillan CY - Cham 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 - 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 - 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 -