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How can one not applaud the renewed better regulation agenda launched by the First Vice President Timmermans? Finally this fuzzy reform field is in the hands of a strong executive politician with the authority to make substantial progress on an agenda that always appeared good on paper, but somehow did not deliver against the expectations it defined for itself. 'Better regulation for better results' not only promises tangible results, but it combines this with the ambition of 'changing how we work at the European level'. This ambition should provide us – as citizens, stakeholders and scholars – with an opportunity to essentially present a scorecard concerning these results in the near future. And, indeed, experts and other stakeholders in the better regulation game do welcome the initiative.My view on this agenda is that the promise of 'better results' will be hard to deliver, whereas the ambition of 'changing how we work' is more likely to materialize in one way or another.

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.

Nudge and the wider behavioral economics approach has become increasingly dominant in contemporary political and policy discourse. While much attention has been paid to the attractions and criticisms of nudge (such as liberal paternalism), this article argues that nudge is based on a rationality paradox in that it represents an approach that despite its emphasis on bounded rationality, does not reflect on its own limits to rationality. The article considers the implications of this paradox by considering mechanisms that influence government decision making and mechanisms that lead to unintended consequences in the context of policy interventions.

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.

Infrastructure only tends to be noticed when it is absent, declining, or decrepit, or when enormous cost overruns, time delays, or citizen protests make the headlines. If infrastructure is indeed a fundamental driver of economic growth and social development, why is it so difficult to get right? In addressing this perennial question, this volume makes the case for a governance perspective on infrastructure

Der Politik- und Verwaltungsforscher Werner Jann, dessen 65. Geburtstag den Anlass für diese Festschrift gab, hat seine wissenschaftliche Arbeit immer wieder an der Frage orientiert, wie die Leistungsfähigkeit des Staates von organisatorischen Grundlagen abhängt. Welche institutionellen Strukturen und Verfahren, aber auch welche Qualifikationen des Personals und welche Art von Steuerungsinstrumenten sind heute notwendig, wenn ein »gut organisierter Staat« die vielfältigen, dynamisch sich verändernden Herausforderungen der Gegenwart erfolgreich bewältigen will? Wie lassen sich die Grenzen rationaler Steuerung durch organisationale Reformen ausweiten, wie lassen sich limitierte Ressourcen optimal nutzen, und wie kann es gelingen, dass Politik und Verwaltung trotz arbeitsteiliger, zuweilen fragmentierter Strukturen doch Querschnittsprobleme lösen? 30 Weggefährten Janns aus Wissenschaft und Praxis greifen in diesem Band diese Frageperspektive auf und eröffnen zahlreiche innovative Zugänge zu Politik und Verwaltung. Das Themenspektrum reicht dabei von der analytischen Verwaltungswissenschaft über Aspekte der Regierungsorganisation und der Verwaltungspolitik bis hin zu aktuellen Fragen der Policy-Forschung.