Public Administration and the Modern State

Assessing Trends and Impact

  • Eberhard Bohne
  • John D. Graham
  • Jos C. N. Raadschelders
  • Jesse Paul Lehrke
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction
      Eberhard Bohne, John D. Graham, Jos C. N. Raadschelders
      Pages 1-14

  3. Normative Perspectives on the State

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 15-15
      PDF
    2. Attending to Mission-extrinsic Public Values in Performance-oriented Administrative Management: A View from the United States
      David H. Rosenbloom
      Pages 17-30
    3. Europe and the USA: The Uphill Quest for Regulatory Cooperation
      John D. Graham
      Pages 31-45
    4. What We Seem to Forget in Modern Public Administration
      Arthur B. Ringeling
      Pages 46-60

  4. Protecting State

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 61-61
      PDF
    2. Reconciling Inconsistencies in Regulation throughout the European Union for a Risk-based Approach toward Industry Governance: A Closer Look at Germany
      Sweta Chakraborty, Naomi Creutzfeldt
      Pages 63-74
    3. State Intervention in Times of the Global Economic Crisis
      Michael M. Franke
      Pages 75-89
    4. The Sources of Security Regulation Convergence
      Jesse Paul Lehrke, Rahel Schomaker
      Pages 90-105

  5. Participatory State

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 107-107
      PDF
    2. User and Community Coproduction of Public Services: What Influences Citizens to Coproduce?
      Tony Bovaird, Elke Loeffler, Gregg G. van Ryzin, Salvador Parrado
      Pages 109-124
    3. Overlooking an International Movement in Volunteerism? Understanding Citizen Involvement in Volunteer Centers
      Jeffrey L. Brudney, Dayoung An Woodworth
      Pages 125-143
    4. Participatory Administrative Procedure: USA vs. Selected EU States
      Polonca Kovač, Tina Sever
      Pages 144-160

  6. Transparent State

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 161-161
      PDF
    2. Erecting the Public Sector Information Exchange
      Alon Peled
      Pages 163-175
    3. Open Government, Behavior Control, and the Privacy Risk of Digital Government
      Alessandro Spina
      Pages 176-188
    4. Collaborative Governance and Collaborating Online: The Open Government Initiative in the United States
      Lisa Blomgren Amsler, Susanna Foxworthy
      Pages 189-202

  7. Multilevel State

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 203-203
      PDF
    2. Reforming Public Administration in Multilevel Systems
      Sabine Kuhlmann, Stephan Grohs, Jörg Bogumil
      Pages 205-222

About this book

Introduction

The challenges faced by the public sector are many and varied. Civil services at the forefront of tackling pressing problems in a whole range of areas from climate change to income inequality are being allocated less money to do so. This collection explores how public sectors have adapted to address the demands placed on them in the 21st Century.

Keywords

Bruno Bauer European Union (EU) governance Government intervention Open Government participation Policy public administration Public Services transformation

Editors and affiliations

  • Eberhard Bohne
    • 1
  • John D. Graham
    • 2
  • Jos C. N. Raadschelders
    • 3
  • Jesse Paul Lehrke
    • 1
  1. 1.German Research Institute for Public Administration SpeyerGermany
  2. 2.School of Public and Environmental AffairsIndiana UniversityUSA
  3. 3.John Glenn School of Public AffairsThe Ohio State UniversityUSA

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