Explaining Public Management Policy Change: Germany in Comparative Perspective

IF 3.9 3区 管理学 Q1 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
M. Barzelay, Natascha Füchtner
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Abstract

Public management policies have changed significantly in numerous countries in recent times. Policy entrepreneurs remain active in this policy domain, which encompasses government-wide rules and routines in the areas of expenditure planning and financial management, civil service and labor relations, procurement, organization and methods, and audit and evaluation. Case-oriented comparative research provides policy entrepreneurs with historically and theoretically informed knowledge useful in designing or improvising change strategies in this domain. This article focuses on the case of public management policymaking in the German federal government during the 1980s and 1990s. A coherent explanation of the careers of the “overbureaucratization” issue in the 1980s and the “lean state” issue in the 1990s is provided, along with an explanation for marked changes in selected public management policies in the 1990s. Analysis of this case is also harmonized with findings about public management policy change in the U.K., New Zealand, and Australia. Limited generalizations about the process of public management policy change are proposed. Policy entrepreneurs can factor these generalizations, plus analysis of the Germany case, into their prospective, situational analysis of the process of public management policy change.
解释公共管理政策的变化:比较视角下的德国
近年来,许多国家的公共管理政策发生了重大变化。政策企业家仍然活跃在这一政策领域,其中包括政府在支出规划和财务管理、公务员制度和劳资关系、采购、组织和方法、审计和评价等领域的规则和惯例。以案例为导向的比较研究为政策企业家提供了在设计或即兴制定该领域变革战略时有用的历史和理论知识。本文以上世纪八九十年代德国联邦政府的公共管理决策为研究对象。对20世纪80年代的“过度官僚化”问题和90年代的“精益国家”问题的发展历程进行了连贯的解释,并对20世纪90年代选定的公共管理政策的显著变化进行了解释。对这一案例的分析也与英国、新西兰和澳大利亚的公共管理政策变化的研究结果相一致。提出了关于公共管理政策变化过程的有限概括。政策企业家可以将这些概括,加上对德国案例的分析,纳入他们对公共管理政策变化过程的前瞻性情境分析。
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