Germany: Limited Reforms and Restricted Participation

David Farnham and Rainer Koch

Chapter 10 in Staff Participation and Public Management Reform, 2005, pp 168-183 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Germany has never played a leading role or been at the cutting edge of public management reform. In comparison with many other OECD countries, which have pursued radical reform programmes, Germany is noted for its narrower, incremental approach or ‘muddling through’ strategy in responding to the new challenges of globalization and socio-economic change. Since the first attempts to modernize the management of state administration in the 1990s, Germany has experienced problems in carrying through its change programmes. This has been due to the limiting effects of the prevailing Rechtsstaat tradition and the highly fragmented power base of a federal system of democracy. The multiple-level German authorities have only been able to launch fairly narrow forms of internal rationalization rather than carry through a paradigm shift in response to the pressures for improving the cost-effectiveness and productivity of public service delivery (Koch 1996).

Keywords: Civil Servant; Public Management; Public Employee; Wage Earner; Collective Agreement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230378612_10

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