Singapore was ranked first for the competence of its public officials from 1999 to 2002 by The Global Competitiveness Report. While research has been done on various aspects of public administration in Singapore, there is to date no comprehensive study of the Singapore Civil Service and the...

This study investigates the reform of the public budgeting and accounting system (Doppik) in Brandenburg. On the one hand, this thesis aims to identify the key variables shaping employees' commitment to change and, on the other hand, to examine the extent employees' commitment to change...

Die Rechnungslegung deutscher Gebietskörperschaften gibt ein äußerst heterogenes Bild ab. Zugleich erfordern die auf europäischer Ebene diskutierten Reformen ein neues Bewusstsein über die notwendigen Spezifika der (deutschen) öffentlichen Rechnungslegung. Losgelöst vom bestehenden...

Governments around the world are criticized as inefficient, ineffective, too large, too costly, overly bureaucratic, overburdened by unnecessary rules, unresponsive to public needs, secretive, undemocratic, invasive into rights of citizens, self-serving, and failing in provision of the quantity...