The European public servant : a shared administrative identity? / / edited by Fritz Sager and Patrick Overeem

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910663502003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Colchester : , : ECPR Press, , 2015
• ISBN: 1-910259-54-3; 1-910259-52-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (326 p.)
• Collana: ECPR -- Studies in European political science
• Disciplina: 352.6; 352.63094
• Soggetti: Civil service - Europe; Civil service - Europe - History; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Based on a panel held at the 2012 ECPR Joint Sessions meeting in Antwerp, Belgium.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The European Public Servant; Table of Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Abbreviations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Part One Searching for a European Public Servant; Chapter One Introduction: The European Public Servant's Shared Identity Fritz Sager and Patrick Overeem; Chapter Two Changing European Ideas about the Public Servant: A Theoretical and Methodological Framework Jos C. N. Raadschelders; Part Two Older Notions of Public Service; Chapter Three Serving the Public by Advising the Ruler Joanne Paul; Chapter Four A History of the Oath of Office in The Netherlands Mark R. RutgersPart Three The Formative Nineteenth Century; Chapter Five Two Sides of the Same Coin: The Public Servant as a Political Actor in Nineteenth-Century German Thought Niels Hegewisch; Chapter Six A Not-So-Statist State: The European Public Servant and the Political Theory of Pluralism Koen Stapelbroek; Chapter Seven Traditions, Bargains and the Emergence of the Protected Public Servant in Western Europe Caspar F. van den Berg, Frits M. van der Meer and Gerrit S. A. Dijkstra; Part Four The Americanised Public Servant in EuropeChapter Eight The Role of Foreign Ideas in Identity Formation: The Hegelian Roots of Early ; American Public Administration Christian Rosser; Chapter Nine The Dawn of French Administrative Science (1945-70): A Renewed Conception of the Public Servant Céline Mavrot; Chapter Ten Cybernetics, German Public Administration and the Reframing of the Public Servant in the Neo-Verwaltungswissenschaft Pascal Hurni; Part Five The Europeanised Public Servant in the EU; Chapter Eleven Developing a Hybrid Identity? The Europeanisation of Public Servants at the Continent's Far West Bernadette ConnaughtonChapter Twelve European Values and Practices in Post-Communist Public Administration: The Baltic States Karin Hilmer Pedersen and Lars Johannsen; Part Six Conclusion: A Shared Administrative Identity?; Chapter Thirteen Shared Values for a European Administrative Identity? A Cross-National Analysis of Government Employees' Basic Human Values Julia-Carolin Brachem and Markus Tepe1; Chapter Fourteen Models of Public Servants' Training and the Crisis of Democracy: From 'Politics as Vocation' to the 'Effective Bureaucrat'? Gayil TalshirChapter Fifteen Conclusions: Common Ground for a Common Future? Patrick Overeem and Fritz Sager; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume shows how the public servant has been conceived throughout history, and asks whether such conceptions are converging towards a common European administrative identity. It combines conceptual and institutional history with political thought and empirical political science.