Public Administration and the Modern State : Assessing Trends and Impact (Hardcover)

Introduction; Eberhard Bohne, John D. Graham and Jos C.N. Raadschelders PART I: NORMATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON THE STATE 1. Attending to Mission Extrinsic Public Values in Performance Oriented Administrative Management: A View from the United States; David Rosenbloom 2. Europe and the USA: The Uphill Quest for Regulatory Cooperation; John D. Graham 3. What We Seem to Forget in Modern Public Administration; Arthur Ringeling PART II: PROTECTING STATE 4. Reconciling Inconsistencies in Regulation Throughout the European Union for a Risk-based Approach Towards Industry Governance: A Closer Look at Germany; Sweta Chakraborty and Naomi Creutzfeldt 5. State Intervention in Times of the Global Economic Crisis; Michael M. Franke 6. The Sources of Security Regulation Convergence; Jesse Paul Lehrke and Rahel Schomaker PART III: PARTICIPATORY STATE 7. User and Community Co-production of Public Services: What Influences Citizens to Co-produce?; Tony Bovaird, Elke Loeffler, Gregg van Ryzin and Salvador Parrado 8. Overlooking an International Movement in Volunteerism? Understanding Citizen Involvement in Volunteer Centers; Jeffrey L. Brudney and Dayoung An Woodworth 9. Participatory Administrative Procedures: the USA vs. Germany, Austria and Slovenia; Polonca Kova? and Tina Sever PART IV: TRANSPARENT STATE 10. Erecting the Public Sector Information Exchange; Alon Peled 11. Open Government, Behavior Control, and the Privacy Risk of Digital Government; Alessandro Spina 12. Collaborative Governance and Collaborating Online: The Open Government Initiative in the United States; Lisa Blomgren Amsler and Susanna Foxworthy PART V: MULTI-LEVEL STATE 13. Reforming Public Administration in Multi-Level-Systems: An Evaluation of Performance Changes in European Local Governments; Sabine Kuhlmann, Stephan Grohs and Jorg Bogumil 14. Endogenous Transformations in European Public Administration: Soft-law, Transnationally-networked Governance as a Self-reinforcing Trend; Joseph Corkin and Nina Boeger 15. Regio-Crats Policy Participation Demands in the EU Multilevel System; Michael W. Bauer and Philipp Studinger Conclusion: The State is here to stay: We cannot Live with it, we cannot Live without it; Eberhard Bohne, John Graham and Jos C.N. Raadschelders