THE GERMAN PUBLIC SERVICE - STRUCTURE AND STATISTICSSTAND 2007

This report grew out of various needs. First, the aim to demonstrate undergraduate stu-dents the differentiation of the German public service necessitated the development of the multi-dimensional graph we repeatedly employ here (see 1.4). Second, international scientific exchange made it clear that the German public service system is difficult to comprehend for foreign experts, too. Third, a comparative project carried through with Professor B. Guy Peters, financed by the Transcoop Program of the Humboldt Founda-tion and a matching fund of the University of Pittsburgh1, induced us to broaden the data base and to edit the German data in English since 1998. The ensuing 10 country study was published in November 2008.2