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This thesis examines the causal process that led to policy change in the field of impact assessment (IA) in France, Germany and Italy since the mid-2000s. I seek to understand whether changes to the goals and/or ends of IA may be explained by symbolic politics or by a domestic learning process. Additionally, I aim to find out how and under which conditions policy learning results in policy change, and how the policy process affects the type of policy change that is adopted. Based on the policy diffusion literature, the policy learning framework and the Multiple Streams Framework, I operationalise three different causal mechanisms: symbolic politics, problem-oriented learning and power-oriented learning. Using document analysis and expert interviews, I trace the causal process that resulted in nine selected cases of policy change. I find that in most cases policy changes resulted from a domestic learning process, whereby domestic entities defined policy problems and/or goals, acquired and diffused knowledge, and adopted measures to implement and enforce the policy change. This shows that France, Germany and Italy have gone beyond the symbolic phase in the implementation of IA. In Germany and Italy, recent policy changes may be explained by problem-oriented learning. Domestic entrepreneurs identified problems in the implementation of IA and aimed at improving the performance of the instrument. In these two countries stable organisations with a mandate to evaluate IA were the main policy entrepreneurs. They facilitated the acquisition of knowledge on IA, acted as learning fora, and largely contributed to disseminating knowledge and setting the policy agenda. With respect to how and under which conditions policy lessons may be translated into policy change, findings show that this depends on the ability of policy entrepreneurs to use windows of opportunities such as changes of government to translate the acquired knowledge into policy change. I find that because the type of causal mechanism affects who learns and ...

This paper seeks to better understand the paradigm shift towards 'networked governance' in digitalisation discourse. Little is known about the link between digitalisation reforms and the main reform paradigms in public management studies. By analysing French and German national digitalisation strategies over time, we find that neo-Weberian, new public management, and networked governance discourses co-exist within the digital era, although networked governance rhetoric is increasingly influential. However, a closer examination reveals that this shift in discourse is unrelated to the increased integration of nonstate actors in actual decision-making and service delivery.

This paper seeks to better understand the paradigm shift towards 'networked governance' in digitalisation discourse. Little is known about the link between digitalisation reforms and the main reform paradigms in public management studies. By analysing French and German national digitalisation strategies over time, we find that neo-Weberian, new public management, and networked governance discourses co-exist within the digital era, although networked governance rhetoric is increasingly influential. However, a closer examination reveals that this shift in discourse is unrelated to the increased integration of nonstate actors in actual decision-making and service delivery.

This paper seeks to better understand the paradigm shift towards 'networked governance' in digitalisation discourse. Little is known about the link between digitalisation reforms and the main reform paradigms in public management studies. By analysing French and German national digitalisation strategies over time, we find that neo-Weberian, new public management, and networked governance discourses co-exist within the digital era, although networked governance rhetoric is increasingly influential. However, a closer examination reveals that this shift in discourse is unrelated to the increased integration of nonstate actors in actual decision-making and service delivery.

AbstractDespite claims of a paradigmatic shift toward the increased role of networks and partnerships as a form of governance—driven and enabled by digital technologies—the relation of "Networked Governance" with the pre‐existing paradigms of "Traditional Weberian Public Administration" and "New Public Management" remains relatively unexplored. This research aims at collecting systematic evidence on the dominant paradigms in digitalization reforms in Europe by comparing the doctrines employed in the initial and most recent digitalization strategies across eight European countries: Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, and the United Kingdom. We challenge the claim that Networked Governance is emerging as the dominant paradigm in the context of the digitalization of the public sector. The findings confirm earlier studies indicating that information and communication technologies tend to reinforce some traditional features of administration and the recentralization of power. Furthermore, we find evidence of the continued importance of key features of "New Public Management" in the digital era.

Hintergrund Eine Vereinfachung und Verbesserung von Förderverfahren stellt angesichts der hohen Bedeutung von Förderungen für Unternehmen und Kommunen ein wichtiges Unterfangen zur Stärkung von Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und Standortqualität dar. Die Sächsische Staatsregierung verfolgt in der aktuellen Legislaturperiode das politische Ziel einer Vereinfachung der Regelungen für Mittelempfänger und Verwaltungsbehörden und insbesondere einer Bürokratieentlastung kleinerer Kommunen bei Förderverfahren. Sie hat sich in ihrer Eckwerteklausur März 2018 entschieden, zur Vereinfachung und Verbesserung von Förderverfahren eine Kommission mit sachkundigen Experten einzusetzen. Die "Kommission zur Vereinfachung und Verbesserung von Förderverfahren" wurde am 15. Mai 2018 auf Vorschlag des Staatsministers der Finanzen eingesetzt. Es ist vorgesehen, dass sie der Staatsregierung bis 31. Mai 2019 einen Abschlussbericht vorlegt. Die Kommission soll der Staatsregierung konkrete Vorschläge zur Vereinfachung von Förderprogrammen unterbreiten. Hierbei soll es vor allem um Pauschalierung von Zuschüssen, Flexibilisierung und Entbürokratisierung der Förderverfahren, Vereinfachungsmöglichkeiten landesrechtlicher Vorschriften und um Vorschläge zur Verbesserung und Bündelung der Förderung gehen. Insbesondere sollen Erleichterungen für Fördermittelempfänger im Fokus stehen. Die vorliegende Studie soll mit Hilfe internationaler Erfahrungen ausländischer Verwaltungen in der Reform von Fördermanagementprozessen ein weiterer Baustein bei der Entwicklung konkreter Vereinfachungsvorschläge sein. Dafür werden im Folgenden sechs zum Teil weitreichende Reformen des Fördermanagementprozesses in den Niederlanden, Kanada, Flandern (Belgien), Schweden, Wales (Großbritannien) und Irland ihrem Inhalt nach beschrieben und auf Ihre Auswirkungen hin untersucht. Es werden die wesentlichen Trends im internationalen Reformgeschehen rund um das Thema Förderprozessmanagement identifiziert und Handlungsempfehlungen für die Kommission abgeleitet.