Swiss Public Administration

Swiss Public Administration
Author: Andreas Ladner
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2018-08-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3319923811

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.

Swiss Public Administration

Swiss Public Administration
Author: Stéphane Nahrath
Publisher:
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2020-10-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781013276682

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. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Public Administration: Concepts and Practices in Switzerland

Public Administration: Concepts and Practices in Switzerland
Author: Kelvin Bennett
Publisher: Murphy & Moore Publishing
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2021-11-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781639874675

Public administration is a multidisciplinary field that undertakes and studies government policy implementations. It is responsible for the management of organisations and institutions in the social, economic and political spheres and help in their proper functioning. Many non-elected public employees like heads of city, country, region, state and federal departments can be classified as public administrators. Human resources, organizational theory, policy analysis, statistics, budgeting and ethics are some of its major sub-fields. Public administration in Switzerland has increased in importance with respect to politics, due to the greater professionalization, specialization and heightened complexity of political tasks. This book covers in detail some existent theories and innovative concepts revolving around this subject. It will provide in-depth knowledge about the theory and practice of Swiss public administration. Scientists and students actively engaged in this field will find this book full of crucial and unexplored concepts.

Mapping the Swiss Public Administration

Mapping the Swiss Public Administration
Author: Fritz Sager
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2009
Genre:
ISBN:

In the present paper, we argue that the existing data collections fail to map specific features of modern public administration in Switzerland, namely new modes of governance with hybrid state structures. After presenting the Swiss federal administration in a nutshell, we discuss the challenge of mapping hybrid state structures based on different studies focusing on four different aspects: first, quasi-state bodies; second, joined up government; third, emerging new institutions for problems not adequately captured by existing political geography, most prominently seen in the case of functional urban regions; and fourth, new modes of governance with co-production of public goods by state and non-state actors. We then present newer studies and ongoing research (which could be coupled with the mapping of public administration in Switzerland), namely the "agenda setting"--Project, research on independent regulatory bodies and, finally, the courts' impact on public administration. In further conceptual work, we may discuss in more depth how the challenge of new modes of governance and cooperative government can be addressed by focusing on the transformation of state structures rather than by adopting a static view.

New Public Management

New Public Management
Author: Jan-Erik Lane
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2002-09-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 113457410X

New public management is a topical phrase to describe how management techniques from the private sector are now being applied to public services. This book provides a completely up-to-date overview of the main theoretical models of public sector management, and examines the key changes that have occurred as more and more public services are contracted out to private organisations, as the public sector itself grapples with 'internal markets'. Drawing on economics, organisational theory and poliltics, Jan-Erik Lane presents new public management from an analytical perspective. This book uses game theory and empirical studies in order to assess the pros and cons of new public management.

The Introduction of e-Government in Switzerland

The Introduction of e-Government in Switzerland
Author: Tereza Cahlikova
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2021-08-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3030786242

This book studies the question of e-Government development from a multi-faceted perceptive. The first introductory chapter outlines the importance of public sector digitalisation. The second chapter clarifies the used e-Government terminology and divides the concept between electronic public service delivery and electronic practice of democracy. Influential factors having an impact on the introduction of e-Government projects are divided between those of organisational, institutional, individual and technological nature and discussed in detail in the third chapter. The fourth chapter presents empirical findings from the Swiss case study that constitutes both an exceptional and exemplary model of e-Government development. High quality of public services and the participative style of democracy would seem to predestine the country to be the precursor in the field of e-Government. However, the state of e-Government development does not correspond to the potential that Swiss contextual conditions offer. The importance of the Swiss case study for the understanding of e-Government as an institutional and organisational transformation is outlined in the fifth chapter.

Public Administration in Germany

Public Administration in Germany
Author: Sabine Kuhlmann
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2021-01-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3030536971

This open access book presents a topical, comprehensive and differentiated analysis of Germany’s public administration and reforms. It provides an overview on key elements of German public administration at the federal, Länder and local levels of government as well as on current reform activities of the public sector. It examines the key institutional features of German public administration; the changing relationships between public administration, society and the private sector; the administrative reforms at different levels of the federal system and numerous sectors; and new challenges and modernization approaches like digitalization, Open Government and Better Regulation. Each chapter offers a combination of descriptive information and problem-oriented analysis, presenting key topical issues in Germany which are relevant to an international readership.

Swiss Energy Governance

Swiss Energy Governance
Author: Peter Hettich
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2021-11-26
Genre: Law
ISBN: 3030807878

This open access book gathers the results of an interdisciplinary research project led by the Swiss Competence Centers for Energy Research (SCCER CREST) and jointly implemented by several universities. It identifies political, economic and legal challenges and opportunities in the energy transition from a governance perspective by exploring a variety of tools that allow state, non-state and transnational actors to manage the transition of the energy industry toward less fossil-fuel reliance. When analyzing the roles of these actors, the authors examine not only formal procedures such as political and democratic processes, but also market behavior and societal practices. In other words, the handbook focuses on both the behavior and the positive and normative frameworks of political actors, bureaucracies, courts, international organizations, lobby groups, civil society, economic actors and individuals. The authors subsequently use their findings to formulate specific guidelines for lawmakers and other rule-makers, as well as private and public actors. To do so, they draw on approaches stemming from the legal, political and management sciences.

Swiss Made

Swiss Made
Author: R. James Breiding
Publisher: Profile Books(GB)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Business enterprises
ISBN: 9781846685866

From poverty to prosperity - a small country's remarkable achievement

Practising Citizenship and Heterogeneous Nationhood

Practising Citizenship and Heterogeneous Nationhood
Author: Marc Helbling
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2008
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9089640347

Switzerland likely has the most particular naturalization system in the world. Whereas in most countries citizenship attribution is regulated at the central level of the state, in Switzerland each municipality is accorded the right to decide who can become a Swiss citizen. This book aims at exploring naturalization processes from a comparative perspective and to explain why some municipalities pursue more restrictive citizenship policies than others. The Swiss case provides a unique opportunity to approach citizenship politics from new perspectives. It allows us to go beyond formal citizenship models and to account for the practice of citizenship. The analytical framework combines quantitative and qualitative data and helps us understand how negotiation processes between political actors lead to a large variety of local citizenship models. An innovative theoretical framework, integrating Bourdieu's political sociology, combines symbolic and material aspects of naturalizations and underlines the production processes of ethnicity.