Comparative civil service systems in the 21st century / edited by Frits M. Van der Meer, CASOP Professor of Comparative Civil Service and Public Sector Reform, Institute of Public Administration, Leiden University, the Netherlands, Jos C.N. Raadschelders, Professor and Associate Director of Faculty at the John Glenn School of Public Affairs, Ohio State University, USA and affiliated Professor of Public Administration, Institute of Public Administration Leiden University, the Netherlands, and Theo A.J. Toonen, Dean, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Mangement, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, Chair in Institutional Governance and Public Administration at Delft and Leiden University, the Netherlands.
Revision of: The civil service in the 21st century. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
1. Civil service systems and the challenges of the 21st century / Jos C.N. Raadschelders, Theo A.J. Toonen and Frits M. van der Meer -- 2. Civil service development in central and Eastern European and the CIS: a perfect storm? / Tony J.G. Verheijen and Aleksandra Rabrenovic -- 3. Civil service systems in Western Europe: a comparative analysis / Frits van der Meer, Trui Steen, Anchrit Wille -- 4. Anglophone systems: diffusion and policy transfer within an administrative tradition / John Halligan -- 5. Explaining civil service reform in Asia / John P. Burns -- 6. Africa: revalitalizing civil service systems to enhance economic performance / Ladipo Adamolekun and Dele Olowu -- 7. National civil service systems in Western Europe: the end or endurance of weberian bureaucracy? / Caspar van den Berg, Theo A.J. Toonen -- 8. Civil service reforms, public service bargains and dynamics of institutional change / Philippe Bezes and Martin Lodge -- 9. Public service systems at sub national and local levels of government: a British-German-French comparison / Sabine Kuhlmann, Sylvia Veit and J̲rg Bogumil -- 10. Middle level officials and policy / Edward C. Page -- 11. Transitions in civil service systems: robustness and flexibility in human resource management / Per L̆greid and Lois Recascino Wise -- 12. Civil service systems and public service motivation / James L. Perry -- 13. Law and management: comparatively assessing the reach of judicialization / Robert K. Christensen and Charles R. Wise -- 14. The constitutional responsibility of the civil service / John A. Rohr -- 15. Civil service systems and responsibility, accountability and performance: a multi-dimensional approach / G.S.A. Dijkstra -- 16. Governance and civil service systems: from easy answers to hard questions / B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre -- 17. Is past prologue to 21st century civil service systems? exploring historical frames for discovering lessons about institutional futures / Richard J. Stillman II -- 18. Political-administrative relations: evolving models of politicization / Luc Rouban -- 19. Political system reform. Can administrative reform succeed without? / Jos C.N. Raadschelders and Marie-Louise Bemelmans-Videc -- 20. Civil servants in the enabling framework state of the 21st century / Jos C.N. Raadschelders, Theo A.J. Toonen and Frits M. van der Meer.
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