Download or read book Democratic Backsliding and Public Administration written by Michael W. Bauer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberal democracy is at risk. Its hallmark institutions – political pluralism, separation of powers, and rule of law—are coming under pressure, as authoritarian sentiment is growing around the globe. While liberal-democratic backsliding features prominently in social science scholarship, especially the branches concerned with political parties and political behavior, public administration research lags behind. However, without considering illiberal approaches towards the executive, efforts of actual and aspiring authoritarians remain only partly understood. State bureaucracies are, after all, important instruments of power. This timely and important volume addresses the administrative implications of liberal-democratic backsliding. It studies public administrations as objects and subjects in the context of illiberal dynamics. For this purpose, the volume brings together an international group of scholars to analyze authoritarian tendencies in several countries. The contributions combine theoretical with empirical work, providing the first comparative perspective on an overlooked aspect of one of the most important contemporary political trends.

Download or read book The Remuneration of Nursing Personnel written by International Labour Office and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 1994 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health services have expanded in recent times because of scientific and technological developments, placing further pressure on budgets. Although health care provision remains a priority worldwide, there have been severe nursing staff shortages and growing disenchantment among the workforce, due to pay, job classification and career problems.

Download or read book European Democratic Institutions and Administrations written by Francesco Merloni and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the results of extensive international comparative research into the effects of the economic and financial crisis on democratic institutions and social cohesion policies. The collected studies describe and analyse the measures (often referred to as "reforms") adopted to counter the crisis and the effects of these measures.It investigates three areas: the impact on the functioning of institutions, with respect to the relationship between representative institutions and governments, and the organisational structure of administrations at national and local levels; the impact that the austerity policies on public spending have on social rights; and the impact on traditional instruments of public action (administrative simplification, public services delivering, the use of common assets).The general findings highlight the effect of reducing the administrative and government capacity of the democratic institutions: the public sector, rather than being innovative and made more effective, declines, offering increasingly poor public services and making bad decisions, fuelling substantive or formal privatisation solutions, which in turn cause further weakening.

Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Public Administration and Management in Europe written by Edoardo Ongaro and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 1307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook offers a systematic review of state-of-the-art knowledge on public administration in Europe. Covering the theoretical, epistemological and practical aspects of the field, it focuses on how public administration operates and is studied in European countries. In sixty-three chapters, written by leading scholars, this Handbook considers the uniqueness of the European situation through an interdisciplinary and comparative lens, focusing on the administrative diversity which results from the multiplicity of countries, languages, schools of thought and streams of investigation across Europe. It addresses issues such as multi-level administration and governance, intensive cross country cooperation in administrative reform policy, and public accountability under different systems. It also considers the issue of welfare service delivery, at a time of major economic and societal challenges, as well as understudied emerging issues like Islamic Public Administration and the dynamics of public sector negotiations. With contributions from key experts in Public Administration and Public Management, this cutting edge Handbook offers a significant contribution to the field of comparative public administration, policy and management.

Download or read book L galit dans la fonction publique written by Alexis Zarca and published by Primento. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La fonction publique est au cœur des mutations de l’État et du droit, lesquelles bousculent immanquablement les conceptions de l’égalité dont elle est traditionnellement porteuse. Cet ouvrage met d’abord en lumière et ordonne les très nombreuses expressions du principe d’égalité dans la fonction publique, envisagé à tous ses stades d’application (recrutement, carrière, retraite) ; - dans toutes ses déclinaisons (égalité devant la loi et principe de non-discrimination); - sous toutes ses formes (explicites, implicites, connexes) ; - depuis toutes ses sources (internes et européennes). Il propose les clefs pour : - comprendre, d’une part, ce qu’est la conception traditionnelle de l’égalité dans la fonction publique en France (formelle, républicaine, libérale) telle qu’elle résulte du modèle d’administration que l’État s’est donné pour agir et se figurer (et que traduisent en particulier les principes du concours et du statut général) ; - percevoir, d’autre part, dans quelle mesure cette conception s’est trouvée affectée ces dernières années par les mutations de l’État et du droit (tenant en particulier à la politique de modernisation de l’administration, à celle de lutte contre les discriminations, ainsi qu’à la réalisation d’un espace européen de libre circulation).

Download or read book Studies in the History of the Law of Nations written by Charles Henry Alexandrowicz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1972-01-07 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Public Management Occasional Papers Public Service Pay Determination and Pay Systems in OECD Countries No 2 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1994-07-01 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report maps the current state of public service pay determination and pay systems in OECD countries, and explores the different paths of reform that are being followed in different countries.

Download or read book Swiss Public Administration written by Andreas Ladner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swiss citizens approve of their government and the way democracy is practiced; they trust the authorities and are satisfied with the range of services Swiss governments provide. This is quite unusual when compared to other countries. This open access book provides insight into the organization and the functioning of the Swiss state. It claims that, beyond politics, institutions and public administration, there are other factors which make a country successful. The authors argue that Switzerland is an interesting case, from a theoretical, scientific and a more practice-oriented perspective. While confronted with the same challenges as other countries, Switzerland offers different solutions, some of which work astonishingly well.

Download or read book Public Sector Pay and Employment Reform written by Barbara Nunberg and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1988 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overstaffed bureaucracies afflicted by eroding salaries, demoralization, corruption, moonlighting, and chronic absenteeism are often unable to carry out the key tasks of economic recovery. What should the Bank do about it?

Download or read book Les Fonctions publiques de A Z dictionnaire comment written by Pierre Dasté and published by FeniXX. This book was released on 1998-12-31T23:00:00+01:00 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comment s'y retrouver face aux très nombreuses sources documentaires concernant la fonction publique ? Telle est la difficulté à laquelle « Les fonctions publiques de A à Z » s'efforce de répondre, en proposant à tous ceux qui ont à connaître et à appliquer les notions essentielles du droit de la fonction publique, soumises à de permanentes évolutions, une vision claire et globale des différents thèmes qui rythment l'activité des trois fonctions publiques, que sont la fonction de l'État, des collectivités locales, et des hôpitaux. Déconcentration, accréditation, médiateur, notation... : chaque thème fait l'objet d'une définition synthétique, d'un commentaire sur son origine et sur ses diverses interprétations et implications au sein des fonctions publiques. Une dernière rubrique présente au lecteur une liste complète des sources d'informations jurisprudentielles, doctrinales, réglementaires, ainsi que les références bibliographiques incontournables, autant d'éléments qui lui permettent d'approfondir ses recherches. Pratique et original, cet ouvrage a été conçu par des hauts fonctionnaires, qui mettent - à la portée de l'utilisateur - leur expertise de la fonction publique qu'ils représentent. Voici donc un outil de travail indispensable pour tous les gestionnaires des trois fonctions publiques, quelles que soient leurs fonctions, pour les responsables des organisations syndicales, sans oublier les agents des juridictions administratives. C'est également un manuel de référence pour tous les enseignants et étudiants qui préparent les concours administratifs, et souhaitent se documenter - brièvement et concrètement - sur les principes fondamentaux des fonctions publiques.

Download or read book From the Active to the Enabling State written by E. Page and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-10-24 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys the changing role of senior civil servants in Western Europe and explores whether they have kept their central role in government decision-making. Looking at these issues in comparative perspective, the contributors provide an insight into the causes and consequences of the changing role of officials.

Download or read book Ethics and Accountability in a Context of Governance and New Public Management written by Annie Hondeghem and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethics and accountability have become important themes for modern government, as in most of the countries there is a severe crisis of legitimacy. Increasingly there is a feeling that performance management alone will not solve this crisis. Citizens also expect from politicians and public servants ethical responsible conduct. As to the ethics, however, there is a problem. Governance and new public management have raised new problems which cannot be solved by referring to the traditional bureaucratic ethics. Devolution and decentralisation processes have enhanced the responsibility of public servants. The increase of transparency and openness and the service orientation of public organisations have challenged the traditional values of discretion and equality before the rule. The growing interaction between the public and the private sector have raised the question of integrity. In light of these developments, it is important to update the ethical system, or reversibly, the traditional values of the public service can question some actual evolutions in government.

Download or read book The Public Law Private Law Divide written by Mark R Freedland and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions brought together in this book derive from joint seminars, held by scholars between colleagues from the University of Oxford and the University of Paris II. Their starting point is the original divergence between the two jurisdictions, with the initial rejection of the public-private divide in English Law, but on the other hand its total acceptance as natural in French Law. Then, they go on to demonstrate that the two systems have converged, the British one towards a certain degree of acceptance of the division, the French one towards a growing questioning of it. However this is not the only part of the story, since both visions are now commonly coloured and affected by European Law and by globalisation, which introduces new tensions into our legal understanding of what is "public" and what is "private".

Download or read book Civil Service Reform and the World Bank written by Barbara Nunberg and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Surveys the World Bank's experience in supporting developing country civil service reforms and begins to assess the progress made. The World Bank recognizes the importance of the civil service to the general welfare of the 4.6 billion people in low and middle income countries. Between 1981 and 1991, civil service reform was a prominent feature of 90 World Bank lending operations. This paper surveys the Bank's experience in supporting this reform and assesses the progress made. The lending operations concentrated on two separate dimensions: (1) Shorter-term, emergency steps to reform public pay and employment policies, which center on measures to contain the cost and the size of the civil service (2) longer-term civil service strengthening efforts directed toward ongoing, sustained management improvements. After examining the record of these reforms, the authors conclude that the results have been mixed at best. They recommend greater emphasis on devising a coherent, far-reaching strategy for reform and on detailing the set of tactics by which these goals will be achieved.

Download or read book Table of Public Statutes and Responsible Ministers written by and published by . This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Loi de transformation de la fonction publique written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Guide du fonctionnaire written by La Documentation française and published by La Documentation française. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Présentation Avant-propos (par Marcel Pochard, ancien directeur général de l'administration et de la fonction publique) - Etre fonctionnaire - Recrutement et titularisation - Le déroulement de carrière - Les rémunérations - La formation - Les métiers - La mobilité - Espace européen et circulation des agents - Les droits des fonctionnaires - Les obligations spécifiques - Les sanctions - Les droits syndicaux - Les conditions de travail - La durée du travail - Les congés - La couverture sociale - La cessation de fonctions - La retraite - Les non titulaires Index