Handbook on the Politics of Public Administration

Edited by the late Andreas Ladner, formerly Professor of Political Institutions and Public Administration, Swiss Graduate Institute of Public Administration (IDHEAP), University of Lausanne and Fritz Sager, Professor of Political Science, KPM Center for Public Management, University of Bern, Switzerland

‘This commendable collection is notable for a comprehensive exploration of most significant dimensions of politics and public administration. The dual focus of public administration in politics and the politics of public administration provides an effective structure for the book. The book will be an essential source for debates in this field and stimulate further research.’

• Contents:PART I INTRODUCTION1 The politics of public administration 2Andreas Ladner, Fritz Sager and Alexander BastianenPART II PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN POLITICS2 The evolution of bureaucracy as political actor: from instrument forpower, via iron cage, to container and guardian of democracy 13Jos C. N. Raadschelders3 The politics of the politics-administration dichotomy 24Fritz Sager and Christian Rosser4 Taking stock: New Public Management (NPM) and post-NPM reforms– trends and challenges 38Tom Christensen and Per Lægreid5 The politics of new public governance 50Eva Sørensen6 The politics of decentralization 59Andreas Ladner7 International public administration and politics 70Jörn Ege8 Politics, public administration and evidence-based policy 82Joshua Newman9 Ministerial advisory systems and politics 93Thurid Hustedt10 The politics of policy implementation: a reassessment in more conflictual times 102Fritz Sager and Markus Hinterleitner11 The politics of administrative burden 114Donald Moynihan12 The politics of administrative reforms 125Jörg Bogumil and Sabine Kuhlmann13 Public management and politics: oxymoron or new political paradigmfor the state sector? 138Geert BouckaertPART III POLITICS WITHIN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION14 The politics of bureaucratic organizations 150Adrian Ritz and Daniela Schädeli15 The politics of regulation: mapping half a century of debates (1970–2020) 161Jeroen van der Heijden16 The role of constitutional and administrative law in the politics ofpublic administration 173Andreas Lienhard, Peter Bieri and Anna Malandrino17 The politics of public finance 187John R. Bartle18 The politics of staffing 199Frits M. van der Meer and Gerrit S. A. Dijkstra19 The politics of public administration in policy-making 210Karin Ingold and Paul Cairney20 The politics of performance management 220Wouter van Dooren21 The politics of accountability 230Thomas Schillemans22 The politics of evaluation 243Céline Mavrot and Valérie Pattyn23 Reputation and bureaucratic politics 255Dovilė Rimkutė24 The politics of digital government 266Tobias MettlerPART IV COUNTRY STUDIES25 The politics of public administration in the USA: the role of structuralfragmentation, professionalization and path dependence 276Kenneth J. Meier and Anita Dhillon26 France: under the rule of a contested politico-administrative elite whoselegitimacy erodes 288Jean-Michel Eymeri-Douzans27 Germany: still a politicized, but meritocratic bureaucracy? 302Falk Ebinger28 The relationship between politics and public administration in Sweden:an archetypical welfare state 312Tomas Bergström29 Switzerland: the politics of PA in a multi-party semi-direct consensusDemocracy 320Andreas Ladner and Fritz Sager30 The politics of public administration in the Russian Federation 330Caroline Schlaufer and Tim Jäkel31 Public administration in China: a politics-administration relation perspective 341G. Zhiyong Lan32 Singapore: administrative city-state 350J. J. Woo33 Non-governability and lack of reform: politics and publicadministration in Israel 360Nissim Cohen34 Mexico: a public administration under fire 369Oliver Meza35 Divergent paths of (de-)politicization: the Colombian and Venezuelanpublic administrations 380John Polga-Hecimovich36 The dynamic relationship between public administration and politics inKorea: actor and institutional perspectives 393Tobin Im and Kwang-Hoon Lee37 The politics of public administration in Japan 401Masao Kikuchi38 The politics of public administration in twenty-first century India 409Srinivas YerramsettiIndex