Is there a future without civil service and civil servants? This volume concludes a large comparative project that started in 1990. The book considers the changes in the past fifteen years, and looks to the challenges facing civil servants in the 21st century: performance, globalization and legitimacy. Given the lack of attention for civil servant systemsas specifically public sector institutionalized arrangements in a political and societal context, this study fills a clear gap.
Author(s): Jos C.N. Raadschelders, Theo A.J. Toonen, Frits M. Van der Meer
Edition: First Edition
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 288
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables and Figures......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 13
1 Civil Service Systems and the Challenges of the 21st Century......Page 14
Part I: Regional Developments in Civil Service Systems......Page 28
2 Civil Service Development in Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS: Swimming with the Tide......Page 30
3 Western European Civil Service Systems: A Comparative Analysis......Page 47
4 Anglo-American Systems: Easy Diffusion......Page 63
5 Explaining Civil Service Reform in Asia......Page 78
6 Africa: Rehabilitating Civil Service Institutions – Main Issues and Implementation Progress......Page 95
Part II: Civil Service Systems and Multi-level Governance......Page 114
7 National Civil Service Systems and the Implications of Multi-level Governance: Weberianism Revisited?......Page 116
8 Historical Legacies and Dynamics of Institutional Change in Civil Service Systems......Page 134
9 Public Service Systems at Subnational and Local Levels of Government: a British–German–French Comparison......Page 150
10 Middle Level Bureaucrats: Policy, Discretion and Control......Page 165
11 Reforming Human Resource Management in Civil Service Systems: Recruitment, Mobility, and Representativeness......Page 182
Part III: Civil Servants and Legality, Efficiency, and Responsiveness......Page 196
12 Law and Management: Comparatively Assessing the Reach of Judicialization......Page 198
13 The Constitutional Responsibility of the Civil Service......Page 214
14 Civil Service Systems and Responsibility, Accountability and Performance: A Multi-dimensional Approach......Page 229
15 Governance and Civil Service Systems: From Easy Answers to Hard Questions......Page 244
Part IV: Beyond Civil Service Systems?......Page 258
16 Is Past Prologue to 21st Century Civil Service Systems? Exploring Historical Frames for Discovering Lessons About Institutional Futures......Page 260
17 Political–Administrative Relations......Page 276
18 Political (System) Reform: Can Administrative Reform Succeed Without?......Page 292
Conclusion......Page 310
19 Civil Servants in the Enabling Framework State of the 21st Century......Page 312
D......Page 329
N......Page 330
T......Page 331
Z......Page 332
