SV - Comparative public
administration and management
Master bestuurskunde 2024 – 2025
Inhoud
Week 1: Intro to comparative PA systems..............................................................6
Conceptual basis for comparison of PA (public administration) systems.............6
Cultural and historical dimension.....................................................................6
Basic features of government..........................................................................6
Administrative traditions.................................................................................. 8
Week 2: Comparative local governance & civil service........................................10
Why is it important to study local government?................................................10
3 profiles of local government...........................................................................10
Functional profile............................................................................................ 11
Territorial profile............................................................................................. 12
Political profile................................................................................................ 12
Comparative dimension.................................................................................... 13
Civil (public) service systems.........................................................................13
Qualitative dimension....................................................................................... 13
Open public service systems..........................................................................13
Closed public service systems........................................................................13
Civil servants..................................................................................................... 14
Employment status........................................................................................ 14
Civil service systems...................................................................................... 14
Political influence of civil servants..................................................................14
Roles of civil servants..................................................................................... 14
Drivers of public servants............................................................................... 14
Week 3: introduction to comparative administrative reforms...............................14
Assumptions about PA reforms..........................................................................14
Administrative reform........................................................................................ 15
Definition........................................................................................................ 15
Types.............................................................................................................. 15
Week 4: analysis of institutional reforms..............................................................20
Model of public management reforms...............................................................20
Elite decision – making................................................................................... 20
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, Socio – economic forces................................................................................. 20
Political system.............................................................................................. 21
Administrative system.................................................................................... 23
Question in powerpoint..................................................................................... 23
Neo – institutionalism’s administrative reforms................................................23
Institutional lens............................................................................................. 23
At this moment.................................................................................................. 24
Convergence and divergence of administrative reform trajectories..................25
Evaluation of administrative reforms.................................................................25
Basic criteria.................................................................................................. 25
Week 5: Continental European Napoleonic model: France...................................26
Fifth republic – bi partisan politics.....................................................................26
The end of bi – partisan politics......................................................................26
French administration: roots in history..............................................................26
Week 5: Continental European Napoleonic model, France....................................28
Basic features of government (France)..............................................................28
Multi – party system....................................................................................... 28
Local governance........................................................................................... 28
Civil service....................................................................................................... 29
Administrative reforms...................................................................................... 29
Simple regionalization.................................................................................... 29
Decentralization & Deconcentration..............................................................29
Horizontal territorial reforms..........................................................................30
Organizational privatization........................................................................... 30
Functional privatization.................................................................................. 30
Internal management reforms........................................................................30
Week 6: The Anglo – Saxon model, UK.................................................................31
Basic features of government..........................................................................31
House of Commons........................................................................................ 31
Local governance........................................................................................... 31
Civil service....................................................................................................... 32
Administrative reforms...................................................................................... 32
Regionalization reforms.................................................................................. 32
Territorial reform............................................................................................ 33
Asset privatization.......................................................................................... 33
Functional privatization.................................................................................. 33
Agencification................................................................................................ 33
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, Performance managements HR reforms.........................................................34
Rational choice institutionalism (RCI).............................................................34
Historical institutionalism (HI)........................................................................34
Sociological institutionalism (SI).....................................................................34
Week 8: the Nordic model, Sweden......................................................................35
Basic features of the government.....................................................................35
Political system.............................................................................................. 35
Administrative system.................................................................................... 36
Local governance........................................................................................... 36
Civil service....................................................................................................... 36
Administrative reforms...................................................................................... 36
3 thoughts of in Sweden’s institutional polic..................................................36
Simple regionalization.................................................................................... 37
Political decentralization................................................................................ 37
Territorial reform............................................................................................ 37
Privatization................................................................................................... 37
Agencification and internal reforms...............................................................37
Public administration reform analysis: revisions................................................38
Convergence and divergence of administrative reform trajectories...............38
Evaluation of administrative reforms.............................................................38
Week 9: Continental European, Federal model, Germany....................................40
Basic features of the government.....................................................................40
Federal election.............................................................................................. 40
Federal level................................................................................................... 40
Regional level: Länder.................................................................................... 40
Local level...................................................................................................... 40
Civil service....................................................................................................... 41
Administrative reforms...................................................................................... 41
Regionalization............................................................................................... 41
Decentralization reforms................................................................................ 41
Territorial reforms........................................................................................... 42
Organizational privatization........................................................................... 42
Functional privatization.................................................................................. 42
Remunicipalization trend................................................................................ 42
Internal reforms.............................................................................................. 43
Week 9: The Central Eastern European Model, Hungary......................................43
Basic features of government........................................................................... 43
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, Party system.................................................................................................. 43
Administrative systems: local government....................................................43
Civil service....................................................................................................... 44
Administrative reforms...................................................................................... 44
Regionalization............................................................................................... 44
Decentralization............................................................................................. 44
Territorial reforms........................................................................................... 44
Privatization................................................................................................... 44
Internal reforms.............................................................................................. 45
Week 10: European Public Administration: case study.........................................45
Policy making cycle & processes.......................................................................45
Processes & documents................................................................................. 45
Policy formulation.............................................................................................. 46
Who does what and how?............................................................................... 46
Implementation................................................................................................. 46
Implementation of Horizon Europe.................................................................46
Implementing bodies...................................................................................... 47
Policy implementation under Horizon Europe.................................................47
Evaluation......................................................................................................... 48
European Innovation Council: Business community.......................................48
Conclusions....................................................................................................... 48
Week 11: Research perspectives of comparative public administration...............48
Problems and current state of PA......................................................................49
Problems of CPA............................................................................................. 49
Current state of CPA....................................................................................... 49
5 administrative profiles in Europe....................................................................49
Digital transformation of local gov: FR, GR, UK.................................................50
DIGILOG research project............................................................................... 50
The digital transformation of local governments: France, Germany, UK
compared....................................................................................................... 50
Back to bureaucracy? Advent of the Neo – Weberian State in GR.....................51
NWS as an analytical concept & reform model..............................................51
NWS as hybridization of old & neo elements..................................................52
NPM – driven Modernization trends in GR.......................................................52
NWS as comeback of the public.....................................................................52
NWS as re – hierarchization & de – agencification..........................................52
NWS as de – escalating in performance management...................................53
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administration and management
Master bestuurskunde 2024 – 2025
Inhoud
Week 1: Intro to comparative PA systems..............................................................6
Conceptual basis for comparison of PA (public administration) systems.............6
Cultural and historical dimension.....................................................................6
Basic features of government..........................................................................6
Administrative traditions.................................................................................. 8
Week 2: Comparative local governance & civil service........................................10
Why is it important to study local government?................................................10
3 profiles of local government...........................................................................10
Functional profile............................................................................................ 11
Territorial profile............................................................................................. 12
Political profile................................................................................................ 12
Comparative dimension.................................................................................... 13
Civil (public) service systems.........................................................................13
Qualitative dimension....................................................................................... 13
Open public service systems..........................................................................13
Closed public service systems........................................................................13
Civil servants..................................................................................................... 14
Employment status........................................................................................ 14
Civil service systems...................................................................................... 14
Political influence of civil servants..................................................................14
Roles of civil servants..................................................................................... 14
Drivers of public servants............................................................................... 14
Week 3: introduction to comparative administrative reforms...............................14
Assumptions about PA reforms..........................................................................14
Administrative reform........................................................................................ 15
Definition........................................................................................................ 15
Types.............................................................................................................. 15
Week 4: analysis of institutional reforms..............................................................20
Model of public management reforms...............................................................20
Elite decision – making................................................................................... 20
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, Socio – economic forces................................................................................. 20
Political system.............................................................................................. 21
Administrative system.................................................................................... 23
Question in powerpoint..................................................................................... 23
Neo – institutionalism’s administrative reforms................................................23
Institutional lens............................................................................................. 23
At this moment.................................................................................................. 24
Convergence and divergence of administrative reform trajectories..................25
Evaluation of administrative reforms.................................................................25
Basic criteria.................................................................................................. 25
Week 5: Continental European Napoleonic model: France...................................26
Fifth republic – bi partisan politics.....................................................................26
The end of bi – partisan politics......................................................................26
French administration: roots in history..............................................................26
Week 5: Continental European Napoleonic model, France....................................28
Basic features of government (France)..............................................................28
Multi – party system....................................................................................... 28
Local governance........................................................................................... 28
Civil service....................................................................................................... 29
Administrative reforms...................................................................................... 29
Simple regionalization.................................................................................... 29
Decentralization & Deconcentration..............................................................29
Horizontal territorial reforms..........................................................................30
Organizational privatization........................................................................... 30
Functional privatization.................................................................................. 30
Internal management reforms........................................................................30
Week 6: The Anglo – Saxon model, UK.................................................................31
Basic features of government..........................................................................31
House of Commons........................................................................................ 31
Local governance........................................................................................... 31
Civil service....................................................................................................... 32
Administrative reforms...................................................................................... 32
Regionalization reforms.................................................................................. 32
Territorial reform............................................................................................ 33
Asset privatization.......................................................................................... 33
Functional privatization.................................................................................. 33
Agencification................................................................................................ 33
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, Performance managements HR reforms.........................................................34
Rational choice institutionalism (RCI).............................................................34
Historical institutionalism (HI)........................................................................34
Sociological institutionalism (SI).....................................................................34
Week 8: the Nordic model, Sweden......................................................................35
Basic features of the government.....................................................................35
Political system.............................................................................................. 35
Administrative system.................................................................................... 36
Local governance........................................................................................... 36
Civil service....................................................................................................... 36
Administrative reforms...................................................................................... 36
3 thoughts of in Sweden’s institutional polic..................................................36
Simple regionalization.................................................................................... 37
Political decentralization................................................................................ 37
Territorial reform............................................................................................ 37
Privatization................................................................................................... 37
Agencification and internal reforms...............................................................37
Public administration reform analysis: revisions................................................38
Convergence and divergence of administrative reform trajectories...............38
Evaluation of administrative reforms.............................................................38
Week 9: Continental European, Federal model, Germany....................................40
Basic features of the government.....................................................................40
Federal election.............................................................................................. 40
Federal level................................................................................................... 40
Regional level: Länder.................................................................................... 40
Local level...................................................................................................... 40
Civil service....................................................................................................... 41
Administrative reforms...................................................................................... 41
Regionalization............................................................................................... 41
Decentralization reforms................................................................................ 41
Territorial reforms........................................................................................... 42
Organizational privatization........................................................................... 42
Functional privatization.................................................................................. 42
Remunicipalization trend................................................................................ 42
Internal reforms.............................................................................................. 43
Week 9: The Central Eastern European Model, Hungary......................................43
Basic features of government........................................................................... 43
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, Party system.................................................................................................. 43
Administrative systems: local government....................................................43
Civil service....................................................................................................... 44
Administrative reforms...................................................................................... 44
Regionalization............................................................................................... 44
Decentralization............................................................................................. 44
Territorial reforms........................................................................................... 44
Privatization................................................................................................... 44
Internal reforms.............................................................................................. 45
Week 10: European Public Administration: case study.........................................45
Policy making cycle & processes.......................................................................45
Processes & documents................................................................................. 45
Policy formulation.............................................................................................. 46
Who does what and how?............................................................................... 46
Implementation................................................................................................. 46
Implementation of Horizon Europe.................................................................46
Implementing bodies...................................................................................... 47
Policy implementation under Horizon Europe.................................................47
Evaluation......................................................................................................... 48
European Innovation Council: Business community.......................................48
Conclusions....................................................................................................... 48
Week 11: Research perspectives of comparative public administration...............48
Problems and current state of PA......................................................................49
Problems of CPA............................................................................................. 49
Current state of CPA....................................................................................... 49
5 administrative profiles in Europe....................................................................49
Digital transformation of local gov: FR, GR, UK.................................................50
DIGILOG research project............................................................................... 50
The digital transformation of local governments: France, Germany, UK
compared....................................................................................................... 50
Back to bureaucracy? Advent of the Neo – Weberian State in GR.....................51
NWS as an analytical concept & reform model..............................................51
NWS as hybridization of old & neo elements..................................................52
NPM – driven Modernization trends in GR.......................................................52
NWS as comeback of the public.....................................................................52
NWS as re – hierarchization & de – agencification..........................................52
NWS as de – escalating in performance management...................................53
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