ABSTRACT
This book addresses an important issue and debate in public administration: the politicization of civil service systems and personnel. Using a comparative framework the authors address issues such as compensation, appointments made from outside the civil service system, anonymity, partisanship and systems used to handle appointees of prior administrations in the US, Canada, Germany, France, Britain, New Zealand, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain and Greece.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 4|26 pages
The politicization of the German civil service: a three- dimensional portrait of the ministerial bureaucracy
A three-dimensional portrait of the ministerial bureaucracy
chapter 5|20 pages
Politicization of the civil service in France
From structural to strategic politicization
chapter 9|19 pages
Dire expectations but subtle transformations?
Politicisation and the New Zealand Public Service