Public Administration in Europe

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: The Past and the Future of a Community at the Heart of the Administrative Sciences

   • Edoardo Ongaro

   Pages 1-8

3. The Intertwined Histories of EGPA and of the Field of Public Administration in Europe

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. German, American and European Roots of International Cooperation in Administrative Sciences. ‘The Speyer Conferences’ and the Origins of EGPA/GEAP up to 1975

      • Stefan Fisch

      Pages 11-17

   3. The Idea of Publicness in Public Administration: Episodes and Reflections on European Group for Public Administration 40th Anniversary

      • Fabio Rugge

      Pages 19-27

   4. “Unity in Diversity”: An Overused Motto—And Yet a Perfect Fit for EGPA

      • Jacques Ziller

      Pages 29-32

   5. What Does It Mean a European Learned Society in Public Administration?

      • Edoardo Ongaro

      Pages 33-36

   6. Welcoming Twice the EGPA Annual Conference in Toulouse: Avè plaisir!

      • Jean-Michel Eymeri-Douzans

      Pages 37-39

   7. Doctoral Education in European Public Administration: The Contribution of EGPA’s PhD Symposium

      • Christoph Reichard, Eckhard Schröter

      Pages 41-58

4. Europe and the World: The EGPA Dialogues on Public Administration and Management

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59

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   2. The Transatlantic Dialogue (TAD) on Public Administration and Management and the Strategic Partnership Between ASPA and EGPA

      • Fabienne Maron, Edoardo Ongaro

      Pages 61-70

   3. EGPA and the European Administrative Space: Strategic Partnership with NISPAcee and the Trans-European Dialogue (TED)

      • Tiina Randma-Liiv, Mirko Vintar, Isabella Proeller, Marius Constantin Profiroiu

      Pages 71-81

   4. From MED to EURO MENA: The Many Paths of an Expanded Dialogue

      • Robert Fouchet, Sofiane Sahraoui, Marco Meneguzzo, Céline du Boys, Fabienne Maron

      Pages 83-97

5. Forty Years of Public Administration Research in Europe: The EGPA Permanent Study Groups and French-Speaking Seminar

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99

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   2. From Informatisation to e-Government and Beyond

      • Frank Bannister

      Pages 101-111

   3. Thirty Years of Performance Research at the European Group of Public Administration

      • Wouter Van Dooren, Jostein Askim, Steven Van de Walle

      Pages 113-121

   4. Public Personnel Policies and HRM: Developments Within the Field and in the (Long History) of the EGPA Study Group on Public Personnel Policy

      • Lotte Bøgh Andersen, Peter Leisink, Wouter Vandenabeele

      Pages 123-134

   5. Combining European Research on Local Governance and Local Democracy

      • Tomas Bergström, Colin Copus, Jochen Franzke, José M. Ruano, Linze Schaap, Hanna Vakkala

      Pages 135-145

   6. Subnational Government in the Research Spotlight: The Merit of EGPA Permanent Study Group 5

      • Sabine Kuhlmann, Martin Laffin, Ellen Wayenberg

      Pages 147-165

   7. Reform Waves and the Structure of Government

      • Per Lægreid, Koen Verhoest

      Pages 167-180

This book considers the ways in which public administration (PA) has been studied in Europe over the last forty years, and examines in particular the contribution of EGPA, the European Group for Public Administration, both to the growth of a truly pan-European PA, and to the future of PA in Europe. The book provides a lively reflection on the state of the art of PA both over the past forty years and over the next forty years. It reflects on the consolidation and institutionalisation of EGPA as the European community for the study of PA in Europe, and demonstrates the need for such a regional group for PA in Europe, as well as for regional groups for the study of PA in other parts of the world. The book also demonstrates the functional, cultural and institutional reasons that underpin the significance of a regional group for researching and studying PA at an ‘intermediate level of governance’ between the national and the global levels. The book provides rich insights about the state ofthe art of PA in Europe from the leading public administration scholars.

• Public administration
• Europe
• administrative sciences
• EGPA
• Trans-Atlantic Dialogue
• Informatisation
• e-Government
• Public Personnel Policies
• local governance
• local democracy
• subnational government
• reform
• Quality and Integrity of Governance
• Civil Society
• Law and Public Administration
• strategic management
• financial management
• justice
• sociology of state-reforms
• european union politics
• democracy

• The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

  Edoardo Ongaro

Edoardo Ongaro is Professor of Public Management at The Open University, UK. Previously he held positions at Northumbria University, UK, as Professor of International Public Services Management, and at the SDA Bocconi School of Management and Bocconi University, Italy, where he still serves as Visiting Professor of Management of International and Supranational Organizations. He has been the President of EGPA, the European Group for Public Administration, since 2013.

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