Die Raumordnung in Bayern ist seit einigen Jahrzehnten Gegenstand wiederholter Reformprozesse. Diese folgen der Logik der Deregulierung, Entbürokratisierung und Kommunalisierung. Der Staat zieht sich einerseits kontinuierlich aus seiner planerischen Verantwortung zurück und überträgt diese...

Der vorliegende Beitrag richtet seinen Blick zum einen auf die Leitbilder und Leitziele der Landesentwicklung in Bayern seit Beginn der 1990er Jahre und zum anderen darauf, welche Auswirkungen die seit 1997 durchgeführten Verwaltungsreformen auf die Strukturen der Landes- und Regionalplanung in...

Im Sommer 2022 gleiten Deutschland und Europa von einen akuten Krise in die nächste. Die Coronapan-demie ist nicht bewältigt, zugleich sind die Folgen des russischen Angriffskriegs gegen die Ukraine immer drückender zu spüren. Der erste Teil des Papiers diskutiert das Verhältnis solcher...

Public administration and public governance play a crucial role in society today by ensuring that social needs are met. Due to the constantly changing environment, public governance models have transformed many times, creating differences in public governance practices among public...

How do radical reforms of the state shape economic development over time? In 1790, France’s first Constituent Assembly overhauled the kingdom’s organization to set up new administrative entities and local capitals. In a subset of departments, new capitals were chosen quasi-randomly as the...

The present paper intends to provide an overview and a critical assessment of the administrative simplification policies implemented in Portugal over the past 20+ years. Throughout these decades, the major instruments for administrative simplification have been: (i) Decree-Law n. 135/99, of 22...

Administrative simplification is a particular approach that is considered a key aspect to ensure the quality of regulations and legislation. The appropriate organizational and structural approach to managing, coordinating, and monitoring administrative simplification is an important factor. The...

This paper documents the effects of an intervention on knowledge sharing, in which information embedded in efficient private organizations is used to improve bureaucratic procedures of public agencies. In particular, it analyzes the impact of the Knowledge for Results (K4R) program on the...

Die Raumordnung in Bayern ist seit einigen Jahrzehnten Gegenstand wiederholter Reformprozesse. Diese folgen der Logik der Deregulierung, Entbürokratisierung und Kommunalisierung. Der Staat zieht sich einerseits kontinuierlich aus seiner planerischen Verantwortung zurück und überträgt diese...

Der vorliegende Beitrag richtet seinen Blick zum einen auf die Leitbilder und Leitziele der Landesentwicklung in Bayern seit Beginn der 1990er Jahre und zum anderen darauf, welche Auswirkungen die seit 1997 durchgeführten Verwaltungsreformen auf die Strukturen der Landes- und Regionalplanung in...

Im Sommer 2022 gleiten Deutschland und Europa von einen akuten Krise in die nächste. Die Coronapan-demie ist nicht bewältigt, zugleich sind die Folgen des russischen Angriffskriegs gegen die Ukraine immer drückender zu spüren. Der erste Teil des Papiers diskutiert das Verhältnis solcher...

Administrative reforms are long overdue in India as the present administrative system is obsolete and continuing as a legacy from British Raj. It is not coping with the ever-changing needs and aspirations of the ever-growing population of the country. Administrative set-up should be redesigned...

We study how changes in the political-administrative hierarchy of a country affect urban development. We exploit the 1865 administrative reform occurred in the aftermath of Italian unification as a quasi-natural experiment to assess whether district’s capital cities endowed with...

A presentation to the Regional Councillors Forum, delivered on 4 September 1999. The address expounds the various problems besetting the Local Government Act 1974, with an emphasis on its bulk and complexity. It evaluates whether a power of general competence could be the solution to these problems

More than two decades since Kenya started a series of public sector reforms has become important to emphasize the essence of good governance as the prerequisite for sustainable development. This study aims at assessing the factors affecting public sector reforms on governance and anti-corruption...

Im vorliegenden Positionspapier geht es um die Abgrenzung der Großstadtregion München sowie die Teilung des Regierungsbezirks Oberbayern vor dem Hintergrund der Optimierung des Verwaltungshandelns in den aktuellen Aufgabenbereichen einer Regierung in Bayern.

Das deutsche Staatswesen und seine Verwaltung zeigen sich den aktuellen Herausforderungen nicht mehr in dem Umfang gewachsen, wie es Bürger und Wirtschaft erwarten. Entscheidungsprozesse im föderalen Bundesstaat sind oft sehr langwierig, und einmal getroffene Entscheidungen von Bund und...

In 2013 the responsibility for school governance and funding has been transferred from local governments to a central government agency in Hungary. The key objectives of this reform, as stated by policy makers, was to mitigate interjurisdictional inequalities in education. This paper explores...

Das deutsche Staatswesen und seine Verwaltung zeigen sich den aktuellen Herausforderungen nicht mehr in dem Umfang gewachsen, wie es Bürger und Wirtschaft erwarten. Entscheidungsprozesse im föderalen Bundesstaat sind oft sehr langwierig, und einmal getroffene Entscheidungen von Bund und...

Background: A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that face masks can slow the spread of COVID-19 and save lives, but mask usage remains low across many parts of the world, and strategies to increase mask usage remain untested and unclear. Methods: We conducted a cluster-randomized...

The complexities of Public Administration have gained the growing attention of scholars around the world, mainly due to the impacts of the reforms implemented under the doctrine of New Public Management (which aims to apply concepts and practices of private management in public management) on...

This IMF Departmental Paper presents the key areas in which countries of the Middle East, North Africa, and the Caucasus and Central Asia (MECA) can enhance governance and fight corruption to achieve their economic policy goals. It draws on advances that have already taken hold in the region

Can administrative approval reform become an effective reform to improve the quality of economic development? Total factor productivity is the key measure of the quality of economic development. In this paper, we studied the influence of administrative approval reform on total factor...

Recent decades have witnessed the rise in popularity of New Public Management (NPM) as a paradigm of public service reform. Key objectives on the NPM reform menu include a de-bureaucratizing of government services, the stimulation of local market competition for service provision and the...

The New Public Management allows us to reflect upon whether intellectual capital helps public sector organizations meet their performance benchmarks. Sustainable economic performance gains importance from the public sector’s service ideal. Although there have been empirical endeavors using...

This paper takes advantage of a unique policy change to examine how principals make decisions regarding teacher dismissal. In 2004, the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) signed a new collective bargaining agreement that gave principals the flexibility to dismiss...

Public Service Reforms in Nigeria and beyond are prosecuted, in the effort to improve management in governments by increasing efficiency, effectiveness, and the delivery of quality services to; the people. However experience has shown that the public service reform recommendations in Nigeria...

We attempt to make inferences about the elasticity of the government's demand for specific weapons by analyzing the statistical relationship between quantity and cost revisions across the population of major weapon systems, using data contained in the Pentagon's Selected Acquisition Reports. The...