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Das vorliegende Gutachten stellt den verbreiteten Stereotypen eine vergleichende Bestandsaufnahme zur Bürokratisierung Deutschlands gegenüber. Ziel ist es, zu einer realistischen Einschätzung über die Kernprobleme der Bürokratisierung in Deutschland zu kommen, um damit der Debatte über wirksame Instrumente und Verfahren zum Bürokratieabbau eine gesicherte Grundlage zu liefern. Deutschland wird anhand der drei Dimensionen der Bürokratiekritik (zu viel Staat, zu viel Regulierung, bürokratische Organisation) international verglichen und eingeordnet. Dabei ergibt sich nicht nur ein differenziertes, sondern in Teilen auch ein anderes Bild der Bürokratisierung in Deutschland. Die Instrumentarien des Bürokratieabbaus können auf dieser Grundlage eingeordnet und kritisch bewertet werden.(Quelle: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung / Internet).

The relationship between politics and administration is a classic theme of public administration, while it has been rather ignored in political science. The handbook provides an excellent overview of their interdependencies. It is useful both as a reference to inform oneself quickly and reliably about their relationship in all kinds of fields (and countries, from the US over Russia, China, Japan to Mexico etc.) but it should be particularly valuable as a supplementary textbook, especially in the wake of the (New) Public Management fashion, which often thrived on simple, not to say naive, ideas of the separation of politics and administration. Whether one is interested in e. g. bureaucracy, decentralization, new public governance, administrative reform, implementation, evaluation, regulation, administrative law, international administration, evidence-based policy making, performance management, staffing, accountability or digitalization, one finds short, concise contributions that clarify the political dimensions in these areas, which otherwise are often treated rather technocratically.

The relationship between politics and administration is a classic theme of public administration, while it has been rather ignored in political science. The handbook provides an excellent overview of their interdependencies. It is useful both as a reference to inform oneself quickly and reliably about their relationship in all kinds of fields (and countries, from the US over Russia, China, Japan to Mexico etc.) but it should be particularly valuable as a supplementary textbook, especially in the wake of the (New) Public Management fashion, which often thrived on simple, not to say naive, ideas of the separation of politics and administration. Whether one is interested in e. g. bureaucracy, decentralization, new public governance, administrative reform, implementation, evaluation, regulation, administrative law, international administration, evidence-based policy making, performance management, staffing, accountability or digitalization, one finds short, concise contributions that clarify the political dimensions in these areas, which otherwise are often treated rather technocratically.

This edited volume presents the results of a large comparative survey in 39 European countries about the role of political science and political scientists in diverse policy advisory systems. It delivers a fascinating view about the differently institutionalized networks between governmental, societal, and scientific actors of policy advice, documenting amongst other the different scope, content, and channels of advice, and offering, finally, a typology of advisors, distinguishing pure academics, experts, opinionated scholars, and public intellectuals. The book contains very useful introductions to theoretical approaches to policy advice, and the theoretical and empirical essentials of the survey, as well as 12 chapters about different European countries from Albania to the UK, and a final comparative view of different patterns in Europe. This volume, however, does not provide answers to all our theoretical and empirical queries, but it is an immensely valuable and readable contribution to the ongoing debates about the characteristics of policy advice, the professionalization of political science, and its social and political impact, as well as a very good foundation to further research.