1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910689586903321

Titolo

Genetic non-discrimination : implications for employer provided health care plans : hearing before the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, first session, hearing held in Washington, DC, September 6, 2001

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, 90 p.)

Soggetti

Medical genetics - United States

Discrimination in insurance - United States

Employer-sponsored health insurance - United States

Genetic screening - United States

Disease susceptibility - United States - Genetic aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910473459403321

Autore

Kuhlmann Sabine

Titolo

Public Administration in Germany / / edited by Sabine Kuhlmann, Isabella Proeller, Dieter Schimanke, Jan Ziekow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2021

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021

ISBN

9783030536978

3030536971

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXIV, 416 p. 7 illus.)

Collana

Governance and Public Management, , 2524-7298

Classificazione

LAW001000POL028000

Disciplina

320.6

351.43

Soggetti

Political planning

Public administration

Political science

Public Policy

Public Administration

Governance and Government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. German Public Administration: Background and Key Issues -- 2. Constitutional State and Public Administration -- 3. Administrative federalism -- 4. The European Context of the German Public Administration -- 5. Federal Administration -- 6. The Federal administration of Interior Affairs -- 7. The Peculiarities of the Social Security System ('indirect state administration') -- 8. The administration of the Länder -- 9. Local Self-Government and Administration -- 10. Politics and Administration in Germany -- 11. Administrative Procedures and Processes -- 12. Control and Accountability: Administrative Courts and Courts of Audit -- 13. Civil Service and Public Employment -- 14. Public Finance -- 15. The transformation of public administration in East Germany following Unification -- 16. Administrative Reforms in the Multilevel System: Reshuffling Tasks and Territories -- 17. Institutional Differentiation of Public Service Provision



in Germany: Corporatization, Privitization and Re-Municipalization -- 18. Participatory Administration and Co-Production -- 19. Digital Transformation of the German State -- 20. Supplement: Open Government -- 21. The Federal Ministerial Bureaucracy, the Legislative Process and Better Regulation -- 22. Human Resource Management, Performance-Related Pay and Public Service Motivation -- 23. New Steering Model, Performance management, Benchmarking.

Sommario/riassunto

This open access book presents a topical, comprehensive and differentiated analysis of Germany’s public administration and reforms. It provides an overview on key elements of German public administration at the federal, Länder and local levels of government as well as on current reform activities of the public sector. It examines the key institutional features of German public administration; the changing relationships between public administration, society and the private sector; the administrative reforms at different levels of the federal system and numerous sectors; and new challenges and modernization approaches like digitalization, Open Government and Better Regulation. Each chapter offers a combination of descriptive information and problem-oriented analysis, presenting key topical issues in Germany which are relevant to an international readership. Sabine Kuhlmann is Professor of Political Science, Public Administration and Organization at Potsdam University, Germany, Vice President of the IIAS for Western Europe, and Vice-Chair of the National Regulatory Control Council of the German Federal Government. Isabella Proeller is Professor for Public and Nonprofit Management at the University of Potsdam, Germany. Dieter Schimanke is former Professor of Public Administration at the Helmut-Schmidt-University in Hamburg, Germany. He became Secretary of State in a state in East Germany after unification and since his retirement, he is Senior Expert in projects of GIZ on reforms of Public Administration (mainly in Eastern Europe and Asia). Jan Ziekow is Professor of Public Law and the Director of the German Research Institute for Public Administration, Germany, Vice-President and former President of the German Section of IIAS.