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Germany: Limited Reforms and Restricted Participation

In: Staff Participation and Public Management Reform

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  • David Farnham
  • Rainer Koch

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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).

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  • David Farnham & Rainer Koch, 2005. "Germany: Limited Reforms and Restricted Participation," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Staff Participation and Public Management Reform, chapter 10, pages 168-183, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37861-2_10
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230378612_10
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