Comparative Civil Service Systems in the 21st Century

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Civil Service Systems and the Challenges of the 21st Century....Pages 1-14
Civil Service Development in Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS: A Perfect Storm?....Pages 15-37
Civil Service Systems in Western Europe: A Comparative Analysis....Pages 38-56
Anglophone Systems: Diffusion and Policy Transfer within an Administrative Tradition....Pages 57-76
Explaining Civil Service Reform in Asia....Pages 77-94
Africa: Revitalizing Civil Service Systems to Enhance Economic Performance....Pages 95-113
National Civil Service Systems in Western Europe: The End or Endurance of Weberian Bureaucracy?....Pages 114-135
Civil Service Reforms, Public Service Bargains and Dynamics of Institutional Change....Pages 136-161
Public Service Systems at Subnational and Local Levels of Government: A British-German-French Comparison....Pages 162-184
Middle-level Officials and Policy....Pages 185-202
Transitions in Civil Service Systems: Robustness and Flexibility in Human Resource Management....Pages 203-222
Civil Service Systems and Public Service Motivation....Pages 223-236
Law and Management: Comparatively Assessing the Reach of Judicialization....Pages 237-254
The Constitutional Responsibility of the Civil Service....Pages 255-269
Civil Service Systems and Responsibility, Accountability and Performance: A Multi-Dimensional Approach....Pages 270-285
Governance and Civil Service Systems: From Easy Answers to Hard Questions....Pages 286-300
Is Past Prologue to 21st-Century Civil Service Systems? Exploring Historical Frames for Discovering Lessons about Institutional Futures....Pages 301-316
Political-Administrative Relations: Evolving Models of Politicization....Pages 317-333
Political (System) Reform: Can Administrative Reform Succeed Without?....Pages 334-353
Civil Servants in the Enabling Framework State of the 21st Century....Pages 354-370
Back Matter....Pages 371-373