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In diesem Kapitel werden die besonderen Herausforderungen, Chancen und Hindernisse von Nachhaltigkeit im Sinne eines politischen Steuerungskonzeptes diskutiert. Zunächst wird der Steuerungskontext von Nachhaltigkeit diskutiert und gefragt, welche Chancen und Hindernisse für eine am Leitbild der Nachhaltigkeit orientierte Auswahl von Steuerungsinstrumenten das Habitat der politischen, ökonomischen und sozialen Umweltbedingungen am Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts bieten. Anschließend wird analysiert, welche Herausforderungen für die Formulierung und Durchsetzung einer solchen Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie im Kontext komplexer politisch-administrativer Regierungssysteme zu bewältigen sind. Abschließend werden in Form von drei kontrastierenden Szenarien zur Überwindung der Hindernisse für die Um- und Durchsetzung von Nachhaltigkeit als politischem Steuerungskonzept skizziert und daraus schlussfolgernd Anforderungen für Reformen formuliert. (ICE2)

Governance Challenges and Innovations examines the capacity of contemporary governments to act upon and address the pressing problems of our time. It highlights four basic administrative capacities that matter for governance and considers the way in which states have addressed particular governance challenges.

This major new text assesses the main theoretical approaches to regulation and applies them to understanding real-world regulatory problems, encouraging students and practitioners in public management to think critically and creatively about the different tools available to them.

What are the key trends and challenges facing contemporary executive politics? How do systems of executive politics respond to different types of crisis? How can we define the contemporary setting of executive politics? Executive Politics in Times of Crisis explores these questions. It brings together leading international scholars and showcases key conceptual and substantive arguments, thereby contributing to our understanding of key debates involving the 'executive factor' in political life. The contributors to the volume consider key concepts and developments which challenge existing stereotypes about the way in which the executive and the execution of policies operate. This includes debates about politicization, internationalization, managerialism, policy instruments and blame with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe and the lesser developed world. The contributors consider how executive politics has responded to and is challenged by contemporary crises, setting the international agenda for the study of executive politics.

AbstractMuch has been said about the appeal of digital government devices to enhance consultation on rulemaking. This paper explores the most ambitious attempt by the UK central government so far to draw on "crowdsourcing" to consult and act on regulatory reform, the "Red Tape Challenge." We find that the results of this exercise do not represent any major change to traditional challenges to consultation processes. Instead, we suggest that the extensive institutional arrangements for crowdsourcing were hardly significant in informing actual policy responses: neither the tone of the crowdsourced comments, the direction of the majority views, nor specific comments were seen to matter. Instead, it was processes within the executive that shaped the overall governmental responses to this initiative. The findings, therefore, provoke wider debates about the use of social media in rulemaking and consultation exercises.

The fields of political science and public administration are said to be drifting apart. This article argues that a focus on executive politics – the politics of the executive and of the execution of policies – offers a key avenue to maintain a useful conversation that focuses on perennial questions that are shared across research traditions. This conversation should concentrate on the 'administrative factor' in political life and the 'political factor' in administrative life. This article develops this argument in three steps. First, it defines the field of executive politics. Second, it considers the rationale why a focus on executive politics is pertinent at this particular time. Third, it discusses the challenges that a turn towards executive politics faces. This article concludes by considering the position of British public administration in the field of executive politics.