From Weberian bureaucracy to digital government?
- 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.
Author details: | Sabine KuhlmannORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800376748.00016 |
ISBN: | 978-1-80037-674-8 |
ISBN: | 978-1-80037-673-1 |
Title of parent work (English): | Handbook of public administration reform |
Subtitle (English): | trajectories of administrative reform in Germany |
Publisher: | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Place of publishing: | Cheltenham, UK |
Editor(s): | Shaun F. Goldfinch |
Publication type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2023/11/16 |
Publication year: | 2023 |
Release date: | 2024/01/24 |
Tag: | Germany; digitalization; intergovernmental reforms; neo weberian state; new public management; territorial reforms |
Number of pages: | 20 |
First page: | 207 |
Last Page: | 226 |
Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Sozialwissenschaften / Fachgruppe Politik- & Verwaltungswissenschaft |
DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 32 Politikwissenschaft / 320 Politikwissenschaft |