Michael W. Bauer Libros

Co-authored by an international team of researchers and drawing on interviews with senior officials, The European Commission of the Twenty-First Century tests, challenges and refutes many widely held myths about the Commission and the people who work for it.

Presents fifteen stories of young people from around the world who has made a positive difference in the lives of others.

Examining the Commission's role as a co-manager in policy implementation raises critical questions about its involvement in domestic policy execution and the development of implementation management capacity. The book explores how to conceptualize the Commission's connection with post-decision management issues and analyzes the implications of its engagement in applying EU policies. This investigation reveals the transformative effects of the Commission's involvement on the overall policy landscape within the EU.

The book covers the motivations of actors to turn policy conflicts into annulment actions, the emergence of multilevel actors' litigant configurations, the impact of actors' constellations on success in court, as well as the impact of annulment actions on the multilevel policy conflicts they originate from.

In recent years, International Organizations have undergone substantive reforms in terms of their administrative structures and management. This development has so far not been subject to systematic or comparative investigations. With Management Reforms in International Organizations Michael W. Bauer and Christoph Knill present a first attempt to open this black box. How can we explain the speed, acceptance and scope of management reforms in International Organizations? How important are Secretary Generals and member states? Do International Organizations, often considered as crucial diffusion agents for public management reforms, actually live up to the standards they are promoting? Do management reforms have unintended consequences with regard to the policy output? The book delivers a comprehensive analysis of management reforms in a broad range of different International Organizations. Leading scholars in the field analyze the respective reform processes inter alia in the European Commission, the Nordic Council of Ministers, the World Bank, the OECD, the European Central Bank, the European Parliament and the United Nations.

How can we approach the Commission's role as co-manager of policy implementation? Why should we expect the Commission to be pulled into domestic policy execution and to accumulate something like an implementation management capacity? How should we conceptualise the Commission's linkage with post-decision management issues? Finally, how does the Commission's involvement in the application of EU policies, if any, significantly change everything? Such questions are answered in this study, which is concerned with what may be called the implementation management capacity of the European Commission. Simply put, this is the role the Commission plays in the implementation of large-scale European spending programmes. While it is true that the Commission's predominant prerogatives are to draft legislation and facilitate bargaining, it also has a role in post-decision policy management. This role is of increasing importance for the emerging governance of the European Union. Readership: social scientists, journalists and all those interested in the role of the European Commission in shaping EU policies.

Die Verwaltungswissenschaft hat in Deutschland einen unsicheren Stand und einen unklaren Status. Eine kohärente politologische Forschungsprogrammatik hat sich weder im Hinblick auf eine empirische Verwaltungslehre noch als Theorie politischer Organisation etabliert. Die in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge ziehen Bilanz und loten neue Perspektiven der Verknüpfung empirischer Forschung und Theoriebildung aus. Mit Beiträgen von Christian Adam, Michael W. Bauer, Stefan Becker, Jörg Bogumil, Nathalie Behnke, Arthur Benz, Edgar Grande, Christoph Knill, Frank Nullmeier, Wolfgang Seibel, Annette Töller und Sylvia Veit.

Nach Jahrzehnten der Stabilität erhalten die Verwaltungen in den Bundesländern derzeit ein völlig neues Gesicht. Unter dem Druck der schlechten Haushaltslage gelangen die Strukturen, Zuständigkeiten und Ressourcen der Verwaltungen auf die landespolitische Agenda. Im Zentrum dieser Veränderungen stehen in fast allen Bundesländern die Umweltressorts. Welche Auswirkungen haben diese tief greifenden Veränderungen auf die Qualität der staatlichen Aufgabenerfüllung in diesem politisch wie fachlich hochsensiblen Politikfeld? Diese Studie gibt einen Überblick über die Reformentwicklungen in den Ländern und untersucht anhand von fünf Fallstudien deren Motive, Strategien und Effekte. Trotz der höchst unterschiedlichen Vorgehensweisen und Strukturentscheidungen in den Ländern lassen sich klare Trends hin zu Territorialisierung, fachlicher Integration und politisch gelenktem Ressourcenabbau identifizieren. Dabei deutet vieles darauf hin, dass mit den administrativen Änderungen ein faktischer Abbau umweltpolitischer Handlungs- und Steuerungskapazität einhergeht.