Setting the stage for a case analysis -- Urban regeneration in Ireland -- Healthcare information systems in Ireland -- Advancing the case for complex adaptive systems in public administration -- The impact of boundaries : identity, community, and place -- The vision thing : the dynamics of...

In den Beiträgen namhafter Fachleute aus unterschiedlichen sozialwissenschaftlichen Teildisziplinen werden Schlüsselbereiche der wirtschaftlichen, gesellschaftlichen, politisch-administrativen und sozio-kulturellen Transformationen in den ehemals sozialistischen Ländern analysiert. Die...

This paper shows how an elite cadre of public sector officials played a key role in the success of administrative reforms in Brazil's state tax administration bureaus in the 1990s. The success of the reforms strengthened public sector bureaucracies and institutions at all government levels,...

Why do some states in Africa seem to be stuck in a spiral of corruption and institutional weakness? Why do others somehow build effective bureaucracies that are able and willing to tackle the challenges of development? The public sector remains the inescapable anchor of development, whether for...

Die vorliegende Arbeit behandelt die Übertragung personal-wirtschaftlicher Praktiken des privaten Sektors auf öffentliche Verwaltungen.Ausgehend von dem Ansatz eines New Public Management implizieren die Annahmen des Managerialismus, erfolgreiche personal-wirtschaftliche Instrumente der...

In January 2007, the European Commission presented the Action Programme for reducing administrative burden on businesses at EU level by 25% by 2012. The Action Programme was endorsed by the Spring European Council in March 2007. It addressed the Administrative Burdens of EU origin in 13 subject...