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Professor Dr. Dieter Schimanke

New Challenges to Public Governance and the Restructuring of Government Roles - The German Experience. Professor Dr. Dieter Schimanke Secretary of State ( ret .), Senior Expert (GIZ, German International Cooperation ) Hamburg/Germany Beijing, November 29th, 2012. Contents.

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Professor Dr. Dieter Schimanke

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  1. New Challenges to Public Governance and the Restructuring of Government Roles - The German Experience Professor Dr. Dieter Schimanke Secretaryof State (ret.), Senior Expert (GIZ, German International Cooperation) Hamburg/Germany Beijing, November 29th, 2012

  2. Contents • PhasesoftheDebate on State and Government over 50 years • Empiricaltrends in Governance duringthe last 20 years • The State is back

  3. I. Phasesofthedebate on State and Government

  4. Empiricalindicator: Quotaoftaxesandcontributionsofthe GNP

  5. II. Trends in the last 2 Decades (1) • Decreasing trust in hierarchical top-down-steering • Increasing importance of net-work and net-work-management • Combination of different forms of steering (state, market, negotiating etc.) • Shift to the perspective of specific steering approaches in the single fields of policy • ‘Renovating’ the macro-structure of the state organization/revision of the ‘institutional arrangements’ (multi-level-system; structures and processes of public administration and IT/E-Government) • Decentralization of problem solving; outsourcing of functions; agencification; using private forms of service delivery • Reducing public tasks (due to fiscal restrictions)

  6. Trends in the last 2 Decades (2) (8) New distribution of functions between state, economy and civil society (9) Change of the leading concept of the state: from the active state to the state ensuring services (‘Gewaehrleistungsstaat’) (10) Trends in the single fields of policy and public administration into an international or supranational (Europe) orientation (11) Special challenge: the ageing of the population (12) Trend to open government (free access to information) (13) Crisis of legitimation of politics and new issues of participation (public communication)

  7. The silent Revolution ofthe 1990-ies (Especiallyfollowingpoints 6 and 9) Reducingthe State (!?): The reformofthe semi-statesector: telecommunication, post services (German Post), railway (German Railway), thesocialsecurities The sectorof (communal) services: water, energy (electricity, gas), waste

  8. III. The State is back • The increasingdemandforpublicservices, causedbydemographicdevelopments, theimbalanceofincome (increasingpoverty), thefailuresofthemarkets • The demandforstateinterventions in crises (crisismanagement): thecaseofthefinancialcrisis 2008 pp. (Governance ofthefinancialmarkets)

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