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State and Local Government Reforms in France and Germany Divergence and Convergence

:	Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot, Hellmut Wollmann
:	Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot, Hellmut Wollmann
:	State and Local Government Reforms in France and Germany Divergence and Convergence
:	VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (GWV)
:	9783531902715
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:	CHF 32.80
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:	Politikwissenschaft
:	English

:	248
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The edited book aims at comparatively analysing the development and current situation of
state and local government reforms in France and Germany. The articles address State and administrative traditions, intergovernmental relations, decentralisation, administrative modernisation, public finances, public sector personnel, local democracy, local (mayoral) leadership and decentral/local social policy.

Professor Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot is Directeur de Recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS).
Hellmut Wollmann is professor (em.) at the Institute of Social Science, Humboldt University Berlin.

	Contents	6
	List of contributors	8
	Preface	9
	Hellmut Wollmann and Geert Bouckaert State Organisation in France and Germany between Territoriality and Functionality	11
	1. Introduction	11
	2. Methodological Issues and Conceptual Framework	12
	3. The Intergovernmental Systems of France and Germany between “ Territoriality” and “ Functionality”	18
	4. Describing Drivers for Territorialisation and Functionalisation of and in the Public Sector	24
	5. Reform Agendas	27
	6. And what about “Governance”?	33
	References	35
	Jean-Claude Thoenig Modernizing Sub- National Government in France: Institutional Creativity and Systemic Stability	38
	1. Two sides of the same coin	38
	2. Stylized characteristics of the system	40
	3. Key systemic properties	47
	4. Consensual corridors for modernization action	54
	References	57
	Arthur Benz and Anna Meincke Sub- National Government and Regional Governance in Germany	58
	1. Introduction: Regional Government and Governance	58
	2. The Evolution of Sub-National Government Between Territorial and Functional Differentiation	59
	3. Regional Governance as a New Form of Space-orientated Policy-Making	64
	4. Revival of Regional Government?	69
	References	71
	Pierre Sadran The Evolution of Public Personnel Systems in France: Structure and Reforms	74
	1. Introduction	74
	2. A Necessary Reform	76
	2.1 The French Fonction Publique is an Impressive Statutory Structure	76
	2.2 Assessing the Performances of the Fonction Publique	77
	2.3 The Controversy over the Number of Civil Servants	78
	2.4 An Inventory of the Necessary Reforms	79
	3. Statutory Logic vs. Reforms	79
	4. The Orientations of the Reform	81
	4.1 Towards a Culture of Results: Efficiency and Performance	81
	4.2 Maximising Existing Potentialities within the Administration	82
	4.3 New Coherence in the Public Employment Market	83
	5. The Necessary Conditions	83
	5.1 The Affirmation of a Strong Political Will	84
	5.2 Taking Advantage of a New Window of Opportunity	84
	5.3 A Strategy Based on the Articulations of the System	84
	6. Conclusion	85
	References	85
	Sabine Kuhlmann and Manfred Röber Civil Service in Germany: Between Cutback Management and Modernization	87
	1. Introduction	87
	2. Legal Framework and Structure of the Civil Service in Germany	88
	3. Size, Structure and Development of Public Personnel in Germany: A “ Lean” and Decentralised Public Sector?	94
	4. Civil Service Reform	100
	References	105
	Gérald Orange French Territorial Administration and Changes in Public Management	108
	1. State Apparatus and Fragmented Public Powers	108
	2. The Purpose of the NPM and the Changes in Public Action in France	111
	3. The Modernisation of Public Action and its Consequences at the Local Level	115
	References	120
	Gerhard Banner Local Government - A Strategic Resource in German Public Management Reform	122
	1. State Architecture and the Public Administration Landscape	122
	2. The Management Reform Movement in Local Government	123
	3. Modernising the Länder Bureaucracies: In Search of Management Capacity	130
	4. The New Land- local Relationship: How can it Contribute to better Public Management?	136
	References	140
	Bertrand Blancheton French Public Finances against Globalization: Resistance, Transformation, Reform	142
	1. Attempt at an Overview: The Resistance of the Budget	143
	1.1 Inertia of Public Expenditure	143
	1.2 Relative stability of the tax burden	144
	1.3 Constant Budget Deficits	145
	1.4 Increasing Debt	146
	2. Macroeconomic Explanations for the Resistance of the Tax System to External Constraints	147
	2.1Weak Empirical Foundation of the Supposed Effects of Budget Deficits	147
	2.2 The Relativity of the Debt Level	148
	2.3 Necessity of Budget Pragmatism: The Budget as France’s only Tool to Stabilise the Rate of Economic Activity	150
	2.4 Public Spending and Local Power of Attraction	150
	3. Aspects of the Restructuring of Public Finances in France in Recent Times	151
	3.1 Some Salient Transformations in Terms of Revenues: The Reduction in Income Tax and the Emergence of the CSG	151
	3.2 A System that has Become Decreasingly Redistributive since the Middle of the 1980s	152
	4. Conclusion	153
	References	153
	Bernd Reissert Public Finance as Drivers and Constraints for Public Sector Reform in Germany	155
	1. The Role of Public Finance in Public Sector Reform	155
	2. The Vertical Dimension: Public Sector Reform in the Federal System 2.1 The Division of Responsibilities and the Structure of Public Budgets in the Federal System	156
	3. The Horizontal Dimension: The Variation of Public Sector Reform among Individual Units of Government	162
	References	166