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Rethinking Public Governance
Contributions for this volume are based on the conference "Rethinking Public Governance" held in Budapest at Hungary's National University of Public Service within the framework of the Transatlantic Policy Consortium (TPC) in 2015. The papers cover a range of topics, including the importance of education and of efficient management of government resources for successful democracy building processes, analysis of formality and informality in public administration, and analysis of select ethnic minority problems. The papers represent various approaches connecting research and policy. Dr. Tibor Babos is a chief government advisor on security policy at the Prime Minister's Office, Hungary. Dr. Sameeksha Desai is an associate professor at Indiana University, School of Public & Env. Affairs. Dr. Andreas Knorr is professor of economics at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer.
The Gamification of Citizens' Participation in Policymaking
This book examines the use of game elements to encourage citizens to participate in political decision-making and the planning of large-scale public sector projects. It argues that success is based on a personal concern with the project and a belief in the influence on political decision making, but also on fun. Without fun, only a very small group of the ‘usual suspects’ will participate, especially in classic policymaking approaches like citizens’ panels which require time and physical attendance. The book also examines the relationship between representative democracy and citizen participation from the perspective of direct democratic instruments in Germany. Readers from different countries with different political systems can decide for themselves, if and how the results from Germany are transferable to their respective conditions. Grounded in theoretical literature and statistical data, the book also makes use of narratives, applying a ‘storytelling’ approach to the case studies.
Public Policy in Israel
An examination of the current Israeli government, covering public policies such as health, housing and transport. The volume covers the institutional as well as the political and the bureaucratic framework within which public policies have been made and implemented.
Open Participatory Security
Our modern security systems have recently come under a lot of criticism: as too bureaucratic and unadaptable, too secretive and untrustworthy, and too obsessed with information technology rather than human needs. Yet listing failures is easy; security is never perfect. The question is why current approaches fail and whether there are viable alternatives. The root of their shortcomings is in the interaction of the very pillars of our security system in the contemporary context. While our enemies have adopted the technologies of the Information Age, changing how they organize and fight, these same technologies have only created more vulnerabilities for states. Governments have been generally u...
Building a Legislative-Centered Public Administration
Explains the reasons behind Congress's expanded role in the federal government, its underlying coherence, and its continuing significance for those who study and practice public administration
Brgerbeteiligung in der kommunalen Stadtplanung: Eine kritische Betrachtung partizipativer M”glichkeiten am Beispiel Mediaspree
Dieses Buch soll zunächst einen fundierten und kritischen Überblick über die zahlreichen Möglichkeiten geben, die ein jeder Bürger hierzulande hat, um sich am politischen Geschehen zu beteiligen. Sinn und Zweck ist es außerdem, die Wichtigkeit und Tragweite von Partizipation aufzuzeigen und verständlich zu machen, weshalb das hier behandelte Thema trotz der momentan weit verbreiteten Lethargie diesbezüglich aktueller ist denn je. Dies soll insbesondere im praktischen Teil dieser Studie deutlich werden, in welchem, anhand des in Berlin stattfindenden Partizipationsprozesses rund um die Mediaspree, vor allem die lokale Relevanz der Problematik veranschaulicht wird. Der Leser soll also theoretisch sowie praktisch an bestehende Möglichkeiten und Entwicklungen herangeführt werden und ihm sollen Anregungen dahingehend gegeben werden, wie Bürger und Kommunen bestehende Hindernisse überwinden können, um mithilfe von Beteiligung den lädierten Grundpfeilern unserer Demokratie zu neuen Kräften zu verhelfen.
Neue Steuerung von Hochschulen
In den letzten Jahren hat sich in Deutschland die Diskussion um neue Steuerungsinstrumente auch auf den Bereich der Hochschulen ausgeweitet. Nach den Studienreformen stehen nun die Binnenmodernisierung und die Neuordnung der Außenverhältnisse von Hochschulen im Mittelpunkt der Hochschulmodernisierung. Hochschulautonomie, Hochschulräte, Globalbudgets, Zielvereinbarungen, leistungsorientierte Mittelvergabe sowie die Professionalisierung der Leitungsstrukturen sind dabei die wesentlichen Stichpunkte in der Diskussion. Wesentliche Ziele der Modernisierungsbemühungen liegen in der Neubestimmung des Verhältnisses von Hochschule und Staat, in der Einführung von mehr Wettbewerb zwischen den Ho...
Public Administration
The ninth edition of Public Administration: Understanding Management, Politics, and Law in the Public Sector grounds students in the fundamentals of public administration while embracing its complexity. It describes, explains, and analyzes public administration through the lenses of three well-established perspectives: management, politics, and law. In addition to thoroughly refreshed examples and case studies, significant updates to this new edition include the following: The discussion of management has been collapsed into a single category, contemporary public management, to better reflect the blending of traditional/orthodox and new public management approaches in the field. Significant ...
