Public Administration and the Modern State: Assessing Trends and Impact

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Attending to Mission-extrinsic Public Values in Performance-oriented Administrative Management: A View from the United States....Pages 17-30
Europe and the USA: The Uphill Quest for Regulatory Cooperation....Pages 31-45
What We Seem to Forget in Modern Public Administration....Pages 46-60
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Reconciling Inconsistencies in Regulation throughout the European Union for a Risk-based Approach toward Industry Governance: A Closer Look at Germany....Pages 63-74
State Intervention in Times of the Global Economic Crisis....Pages 75-89
The Sources of Security Regulation Convergence....Pages 90-105
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
User and Community Coproduction of Public Services: What Influences Citizens to Coproduce?....Pages 109-124
Overlooking an International Movement in Volunteerism? Understanding Citizen Involvement in Volunteer Centers....Pages 125-143
Participatory Administrative Procedure: USA vs. Selected EU States....Pages 144-160
Front Matter....Pages 161-161
Erecting the Public Sector Information Exchange....Pages 163-175
Open Government, Behavior Control, and the Privacy Risk of Digital Government....Pages 176-188
Collaborative Governance and Collaborating Online: The Open Government Initiative in the United States....Pages 189-202
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
Reforming Public Administration in Multilevel Systems ....Pages 205-222
Endogenous Transformations in European Public Administration: Soft-Law, Transnationally Networked Governance as a Self-Reinforcing Trend....Pages 223-237
Regio-crats’ Policy Participation Demands in the EU Multilevel System....Pages 238-256
Concluding Observations....Pages 257-264
Back Matter....Pages 265-312