Public Administration and Expertise in Democratic Governments: Comparative Public Law in the Twenty-First Century

Explaining political-administrative relations in policymaking: An analytical framework -- Regime change and Principal Official Accountability System -- Reform impact: 2002-2005 -- Reform impact and Political Appointment System: 2005-2012 -- Causal paths to varied political-administrative relations in policymaking -- Implications for political-administrative relations in policymaking: 2012-2022.

Introduction / Peter L. Strauss -- What's democratic about administration? / Blake Emerson -- The lawfulness of public law in Germany and United States / Jud Mathews & Joshua Spannaus -- Administrative resilience / Stefanie Egidy -- Bureaucrats as temporary leaders / Anne Joseph O'Connell -- The creation of the modern American civil service and the (constitutional) limits of German influence / Matthias Rossbach -- The neoliberal turn of contemporary French administrative law / Thomas Perroud -- Law and monetary policy : from limited judicial review to parliamentary scrutiny in the European Monetary Union / Joana Mendes -- Administrative democracy and federalism : the US, the EU, and Canada / Athanasios Psygkas -- From elections to autocracy : can strategic decentralization bring us back? / Maciej Kisilowski -- Judicial review of the executive in hyper-presidential regimes / Edgar Andrés Melgar & Susan Rose-Ackerman -- Equal versus efficient security against crime : differences and unintended consequences / Hans-Bernd Schäfer -- Administration and democracy / Peter Lindseth.

"This book looks at the relationship between politicians and bureaucrats in policy making and the factors that account for variation in such relationships by looking at regime change and governance reform. It uses Hong Kong as a case study to illustrate the impact of these changes. The book examines the political-administrative dynamics of the reform of an executive-led policy advisory system in a hybrid regime nested in an authoritarian political system. It identifies three strategies that political executives use to counter civil servants' contestations against political control in complex and changing social-economic contexts. The book demonstrates that political-administrative dichotomy can be adapted to transcend internal-external government boundaries, and captures the political-technical dimensions of policy advice content. It concludes that bureaucrats no longer dominate policymaking under the new governance arrangement. The findings of the book will be useful for public administration reformers to acquire knowledge of the actors, processes and structure of policy processes and policy advisory systems that span multiple levels of jurisdictions (beyond Hong Kong), so that they may design reforms and foresee their impacts"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Explaining Political-Administrative Relations in Policymaking: An Analytical Framework -- 2 Regime Change and Principal Official Accountability System -- 3 Reform Impact: 2002-2005 -- 4 Reform Impact and Political Appointment System: 2005-2012 -- 5 Causal Paths to Varied Political-Administrative Relations in Policymaking -- 6 Implications for Political-Administrative Relations in Policymaking 2012-2022 -- Appendix I: Summary of Survey and Interview Samples -- Appendix II: Summary of Survey and Interview Instruments -- Index.