Overview
- Questions why Switzerland undertakes different approaches to common public policy problems, with a high rate of success
- Provides insight into the organization and the functioning of the Swiss state
- Unveils extra-political factors influencing public administration in Switzerland
Part of the book series: Governance and Public Management (GPM)
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Legal System: Law and Courts
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Front Matter
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The Management of Tasks and Services
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Front Matter
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Fiscal and Financial Management
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Front Matter
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Keywords
- Public Administration
- bottom-up nation-building
- state activity
- government expenditures
- political institutions
- federalism
- direct democracy
- concordance system
- subsidiarity
- fiscal equivalence
- cooperation
- tax
- public sector scope
- public enterprises
- public sector employees
- militia system
- NPM
- Confederation
- communities
- open access
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Nils Soguel is Professor of Public Finance at the Institut de Hautes Études en Administration Publique at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. His research interests include public sector financial management, fiscal policy, fiscal federalism and the evaluation of non-market goods and services.
Yves Emery is Professor for Public Management and Human Resource at the Institut de Hautes Études en Administration Publique at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. His areas of research include HRM strategies, work identities, motivation and competencies of civil servants and public managers.
Sophie Weerts is Associate Professor of Public Law at the Institut de Hautes Études en Administration Publique at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Her research interests are in constitutional and administrative law. They focus on the structural sources and transformation of public law and the separation of powers. She also works on human rights, language policies and gender policy.
Stéphane Nahrath is Professor of Public Policy at the Institut de Hautes Études en Administration Publique at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. His areas of research include comparative public policy, sustainable resource management and circular economy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Swiss Public Administration
Book Subtitle: Making the State Work Successfully
Editors: Andreas Ladner, Nils Soguel, Yves Emery, Sophie Weerts, Stéphane Nahrath
Series Title: Governance and Public Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92381-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92380-2Published: 22 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06422-8Published: 14 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-92381-9Published: 07 August 2018
Series ISSN: 2524-728X
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7298
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 384
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Policy, Governance and Government, Legislative and Executive Politics, European Politics, Economic Policy, Social Policy