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The regulation of interest mediation in democratic, economic relevant countries has not been systematically analyzed in a big N-study so far (smaller exceptions are (Chari et al., 2010; Holman and Luneburg, 2012)). This is surprising since interest mediation itself, the integration of societal actors into the decision-making processes, has been studied from many different perspectives using varying methodological approaches (Reutter, 2012; Willems and von Winter, 2007; Beyers et al., 2008; Eising et al., 2017).
This paper starts with the assumption that each country has a distinct way of dealing with the interests in its society, ranging from social, environmental, religious to economic ones, just to name a few. Each democratic country has to decide, how and in which ways societal interests are integrated into decision-making and which rules apply for these processes.
Existing research in interest mediation in general has in common that the concept of institutions helps us to map similarities as well as differences in the system of interest mediation. Institutions are understood as man-made, formalized (written) or non-formalized (unwritten) common conceptions or understandings of how power and other resources are distributed and exerted, how competences and responsibilities are defined, shaped and shared, as well as how interdependencies are structured (Morisse-Schilbach, 2012; March and Olsen, 1989; Mayntz and Scharpf, 1995).
The paper offers a conceptual framework to map the existing institutions relevant for regulating interest mediation in OECD countries to help understand the qualitative similarities and differences. To do so, it looks at formalized (written) or non-formalized (unwritten) rules, in terms of laws and by-laws, administrative procedures, and patterns of practices. The aim is to measure a) the openness of the interest mediation system in terms of equal access for all societal interests, and b) the level of formalized and non-formalized regulation to arrive at a typology of either open or closed as well as regulated or unregulated interest mediation systems.
The European Semester is an instrument for coordinating and monitoring the economic and fiscal policies of the EU member states. However, since the European Commission explicitly emphasizes the importance of the countries’ public administration for economic growth, it seems reasonable to assume that the member states’ bureaucracy will also be addressed within the framework of the European Semester. This article therefore examines the admi-nistrative policy ideas and reform proposals of the European Commission by analysing the annual country-specific recommendations addressed to all EU member states between 2011 and 2019 under the European Semester. Applying quantitative text analysis to all CSRs during the investigation period shows that the European Semester is used to a considerable extent to propose administrative reforms to the Member States. Out of the 466 reform proposals identified, more than half were related to either the management of public finances or the administrative structure in the member states. On the average (without Greece), each country received 17,3 reform proposals with administrative policy implications over the entire period. However, the differences between the EU member states are significant, as can be seen from the distribution of the reform proposals.
4. Speyerer Weintagung
(2012)
3. Speyerer Weintagung
(2011)
Forming Civil Servants
(2018)
In recent years, partner countries of German development cooperation have voiced a growing interest in German public administration education. Against this background, we provide a systematic assessment of the system of public administration education – covering the vocational education and training (VET) program for the intermediate civil service, and the (dual) study program for the higher intermediate civil service. We identify elements of success within the German system and evaluate their relevance for an idea transfer to partner countries. Thereby, we identify four promising elements for partner countries: recruitment, „dualizing“ civil service training, institutionalizing fitness for transformation, and introducing a modularized concept. For each element we specify components and describe their potential benefits, basic conditions, and core ideas for exporting the element.
Neue Konzepte der Selbststeuerung helfen, ein volatiles, unsicheres, komplexes und mehrdeutiges Umfeld im öffentlichen Sektor besser zu handhaben, da sie
insbesondere eine von oben kaum erzwingbare wissensintensive Zusammenarbeit
der Betroffenen fördern. Die Selbststeuerung ist jedoch aufwändig und
voraussetzungsvoll.
Wirksame Finanzaufsicht über die Kommunen. Dimensionen und Determinanten der Umsetzungspraxis
(2018)
In Zeiten einer in vielen Kommunen Deutschlands ungebremsten Haushaltskrise kommt der Frage nach der Rolle der staatlichen Finanzaufsicht über die Kommunen eine ungebrochene praktische Bedeutung zu. Obwohl die Finanzaufsicht in allen deutschen Ländern die Vorgabe ausgeglichener kommunaler Haushalte garantieren soll, beschränkte sich die wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit dieser Institution meist nur auf rechtlichformale Betrachtungen. Dieser Beitrag nimmt explizit
die bisher vernachlässigte Vollzugspraxis der kommunalen Finanzaufsicht in den Blick und analysiert drei für ihre Wirksamkeit als konstitutiv erachtete Aspekte: Die politische Unabhängigkeit der Aufsichtsbehörden, deren urchsetzungsfähigkeit
sowie die Kooperation mit den Kommunen. Der zentralen Frage nach der Bedeutung dieser Dimensionen und deren Bewertung in der Praxis wird in einem ersten, deskriptiven Schritt auf der Basis von bislang einzigartigen Umfragedaten und qualitativen Interviews begegnet. Konsequenterweise ergibt sich daraus die Frage nach zentralen Determinanten der einzelnen Dimensionen, die in einem zweiten, analytischen Schritt durch theoretisch hergeleitete politische und haushaltsbezogene Variablen empirisch beantwortet wird. Die Ergebnisse sind eindeutig: Die Wahrnehmung der Praxis kommunaler Finanzaufsicht ist am ehesten von der fiskalischen Problemlage vor Ort determiniert,
Parteicouleur oder parteipolitische Kongruenz zwischen
Bürgermeister und Landrat spielen keine Rolle.