Hellmut Wollmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 415679 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hellmut Wollmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hellmut |
| FAMILY NAME | Wollmann |
| SIGNATURE | WOLLMANN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1678-9715 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 95 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 300 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 73 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 22 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Zukunft denken und verantworten: Herausforderungen für Politik, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft im 21. Jahrhundert
Dieses Buch untersucht, ob und unter welchen Bedingungen Staat und Politik in der Lage sind, Zukunft zu denken und – noch wichtiger – zu gestalten.
Administración pública comparada: Conceptos, métodos y campo de investigación
Abordando como punto central el tema de la Administración Pública Comparada (APC), el artículo trata de aportar una visión general de su evolución histórica, el contenido de su objeto de estudio, los conceptos y métodos así como los principales campos de investigación y resultados. Se destaca el desarrollo dinámico que APC ha tenido recientemente evidenciado por el aumento significativo de publicaciones (por ejemplo manuales) y de redes relevante…
In memoriam Peter deLeon
In commemorating Peter deLeon and in paying homage to him as a brilliant scholar, great human being and good friend, I wish, in this brief note, to thankfully recall and acknowledge the cordial encounters with him, the insights and inspirations he gave me as well as the valuable contribution he made to the field of public policy research and policy sciences worldwide, not least in Germany. I met Peter de Leon while he was in Germany on several oc…
Comparing Public Sector Reform in Britain and Germany: Key traditions and trends of modernisation
Institutional development in Great Britain and in Germany - (persistent) divergence or (progressing) convergence?, Hellmut Wollmann state and society in Britain - some contrasts with German experience, Nevil Johnson the administrative state in Germany, Klaus Konig regionalism in the United Kingdom - the role of social federalism, L.J. Sharpe the institutional framework - federalism and decentralization in Germany, Gerhard Lehmbruch the developmen…
Public Administration and Public Management Research in Europe: Traditions and Trends
The chapter reviews the evolution of the state of the art of research in public administration and management in Europe since WWII. It argues that a pan-European community has developed, flanking and in many respects integrating the distinct national communities that characterised the field till the 1970s/1980s. After a bibliographical review of the main themes that catalyse the interest of PA scholars, it focuses on the most researched theme in …
Public and Personal Social Services in European Countries from Public/Municipal to Private—and Back to Municipal and “Third Sector” Provision
This article discusses the provision of public services (public utilities) and personal social services in European countries. In pursuing a historical perspective, four stages are discerned: the pre-welfare state of the late nineteenth century; the advanced welfare state climaxing in the 1970s; the neo-liberal policy phase since the early 1980s; and the recent phase since the mid-2000s. It is argued that, during each phase, the prevalent organiz…
Provision of public and social services in European countries. Any lessons to learn for the Asia-Pacific region
In European countries, the provision of public and personal social services has historically gone through profound shifts between the public/municipal, private and societal sectors. Covering a broad selection of European countries, this article explores the institutional development of service provision and the factors impinging on it. In pursuing a developmental approach, different historical stages are distinguished and explored (pre-welfare st…
Les réformes du système local dans les länder allemands: Entre communes fusionnées et intercommunalité
L’article analyse les réformes territoriales effectuées par les Länder allemands au niveau des communes et des arrondissements. Dans les Länder de l’ex-Allemagne de l’Ouest, ces réformes ont été mises en œuvre pendant les années 1960 et 1970, tandis que dans les nouveaux Länder, elles furent initiées après la réunification. Les stratégies poursuivies dans chaque Land varient entre la mise en place de « communes intégrées » et celle de formations …
Public and Social Services in Europe: From Public and Municipal to Private Provision—And Reverse?
This concluding chapter is meant to highlight some of the findings that have been presented in the preceding chapters of this book. In pursuing the comparative study of public and social services provision in some 25 (Western as well as Central Eastern European) countries, three developmental phases have been discerned. During the advanced welfare state that climaxed in the early 1970s service provision was largely public/municipal sector-based. …
Provision of Public and Social Services in European Countries: From Public Sector to Marketization and Reverse—or, What Next?
The chapter draws on the research and discussion that have been conducted in COST Working Group 1 which has been devoted to the comparative study of public and social services provision in some 25 (Western as well as Central Eastern European) countries. Three developmental phases have been discerned. First, during the advanced welfare state that climaxed in the early 1970s service provisions was largely public/municipal sector-based. Subsequently…
Public and Social Services in Europe: From Public and Municipal to Private Sector Provision
Over the last quarter of a century the system of local government in Hungary has passed through several phases, from ‘Goulash communism’, through radical system change, to crises and ‘illiberal democracy’. A cross-sector analysis of developments in Hungary may provide a relatively extreme example of recent trends in the development of local government and local services in Europe; countries are trying to implement clearly defined models, notwiths…
Transformación y cambio del gobierno local en Europa: Un estudio comparativo
En este artículo se analizan, desde una perspectiva comparativa e institucional, aspectos clave de los procesos de cambio en los gobiernos locales de Inglaterra, Suecia, Alemania, Francia Italia y España como representativos de la Europa septentrional, central y mediterránea, que se diferencian en dimensiones importantes tales como la arquitectura intergubernamental y la cultura político-administrativa. Aunque se constatan tendencias en direccion…
Local government reforms: Between Multifunction and Single-Purpose Organisations
The paper argues that, in ‘revisiting’ the referred-to article published back in 2004, the concept then guiding the analysis would need to be modified particularly on three scores. For one, in order to achieve a more adequate comparison the country selection should be expanded beyond the earlier sample (UK, France, Germany and Sweden) to also capture Southern and Central Eastern European countries. Second, the ‘developmental’ (‘over time’) analys…
Local Democracy in Post-Communist Europe
Transformation der Politisch-Administrativen Strukturen in Ostdeutschland
Stadterneuerung Im Wandel -- Erfahrungen Aus Ost und West: Internationales Symposium, Berlin-Wedding, 27. -29. Oktober 1988
Kommunalpolitik: Politisches Handeln in Den Gemeinden
Transformation der Politisch-Administrativen Strukturen in Ostdeutschland
Experimentelle Politik -- Reformstrohfeuer Oder Lernstrategie: Bestandsaufnahme und Evaluierung
Handbuch Zur Evaluierungsforschung: Band 1
Politik Im Dickicht der Bürokratie: Beiträge Zur Implementationsforschung
Kommunale Rechtsanwendung Im Umbruch und Wandel: Implementation des Städtebaurechts in Ost- und Westdeutschland
Verwaltung und Verwaltungsreformen in Europa: Einführung in Die Vergleichende Verwaltungswissenschaft
Gewerbebetriebe und Mietrecht: Standortsicherung Oder Verdrängung? eine Rechtstatsächliche Untersuchung Zur Kündigungsfrist Bei Geschäftsraummieten
Kommunalpolitik: Politisches Handeln in Den Gemeinden
Governmentalizing central executives in post-communist Europe: A Four-Country Comparison
This article compares the institutionalization of central ministerial executives in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland since the late 1980s. Under communism, the policy formation and arbitration function of the central state apparatus was weakly developed; at the same time, the state bureaucracy was comprehensively politicized, as personnel policy emphasized political loyalty and reliability. In policy terms, state administration wa…
Local Government Reforms in Great Britain, Sweden, Germany and France: Between Multi-Function and Single-Purpose Organisations
This four-country comparison has four sections. First, some remarks on appropriate definitions and concepts are made (inter alia by introducing and emphasising the distinction between 'traditional' and New Public Management-inspired administrative reforms). Then, country by country accounts of the pertinent reforms are submitted 'in a nutshell'. Third, with the 'convergence or divergence?' question in mind, the conclusion is put forward that sign…
The Evaluation of Institutional Reforms at Sub-national Government Levels: A Still Neglected Research Agenda
This article is meant to take a noteworthy step towards conceptually promoting the evaluation of institutional reform policies in the sub-national space. It aims to apply pertinent approaches of evaluation to the field of institutional reform policies in the intergovernmental setting and thus to contribute to a research field that arguably has so far been a 'missing link' in policy evaluation. The authors conceptualise institutional policies (ter…
Urban Leadership in German Local Politics: The Rise, Role and Performance of the Directly Elected (Chief Executive) Mayor
In the post-1945 rebuilding of local democracy and local government in West Germany the local government statutes enacted by each of the regions (Länder) created a conspicuous variety of local governments that ranged from the council/directly elected (chief executive) mayor form (installed in the South German Länder of Baden-Württemberg and Bayern) to that of the (British local government-derived) council/council-elected mayor, and the city direc…
Local Government Modernization in Germany: Between Incrementalism and Reform Waves
In taking a historical‐institutionlist approach, this paper looks at the development of administrative reforms in German local government which, because of the comparatively high degree of political and administrative decentralization of the Federal Republic has played a crucial role in the latter’s entire politico‐administrative setting and, hence, in its institutional reforms. The paper mainly identifies three stages in the post‐war development…
Local Government Reforms in (Seven) European Countries: Between Convergent and Divergent, Conflicting and Complementary Developments
In selecting the United Kingdom/England, Germany, Sweden, France, Italy, Spain and Hungary as comparative cases, and in focusing on three institutional tracks (local leadership, internal administration and external operation), this article first discusses, on the one hand, whether local government has been institutionally strengthened, and on the other, whether governance-type actor networks have expanded in the countries under consideration and …
Germany’s trajectory of public sector modernisation: Continuities and Discontinuities
English This article argues that the discourse on public sector modernisation has recently been internationally dominated by new public management (NPM) and that the underlying Anglo-Saxon model and its implicit conceptual,if not epistemological, ‘Anglo-centricity’ may lead to over-accentuate NPM-driven convergence, while disregarding developments in countries with different (‘non-Anglo Saxon’) state and societal traditions. Looking at Germany’s …
Reforming Local Leadership and Local Democracy: The Cases of England, Sweden, Germany and France in Comparative Perspective
In this article it is argued that with regard to characteristic features of the recent local government reform targeted at local leadership two country groups can be distinguished. On the one hand, the reforms in England and Sweden have critically focused on the traditional government by committee and its collective/collegial decision-making form. This was reformed into a 'de-collectivised', if not 'individualised' commission form, with England g…
Social Sciences and Modern States: National Experiences and Theoretical Crossroads
Modern social sciences have been committed to the improvement of public policy. However, doubts have arisen about the possibility and desirability of a policy-oriented social science. In this book, leading specialists in the field analyse both the development and failings of policy-oriented social science. In contrast to other writings on the subject, this volume presents a distinctively historical and comparative approach. By looking at earlier …
Policy Analysis in West Germany's Federal Government: A Case of Unfinished Governmental and Administrative Modernization
Comparing Two Logics of Interlocal Cooperation: The Cases of France and Germany
In this article the interaction and cooperation of local level actors is conceived as being premised on two organizational logics, that is, on the territorialitybased general purpose elected local government form and on institutionalized functionality-based single-purpose non-elected intermunicipal cooperation. Drawing on the work by Hooghe and Marks the two variants are identified as “type I” and “type II” institutional arrangements. Germany and…
Territorial Local Level Reforms in the East German Regional States (Länder): Phases, Patterns, and Dynamics
The article deals with the territorial reforms at municipal and county government levels which, following German unification in 1990, were carried out in the re-established (five) regional States (Länder) each of which, according to the German tradition and federal system, has the power to pass legislation on local government institutions as well as territorial structure. Conceptually influenced ('institution transfer', 'institutional isomorphism…
Incrementalism and reform waves: The case of social service reform in the Federal Republic of Germany
This article elaborates on the reform of personal social services in the Federal Republic of Germany. It gives an overview of almost five decades of social service reform with a view to substantiating two central claims. First, social service reform in the Federal Republic has now entered a critical stage; both in breadth and depth, current changes are equalled only by the reforms of the late 1960s and early 1970s. These reforms will fundamentall…
Local Government and Politics in East Germany
The Rise and Fall of Public and Social Housing
Change and Continuity of Political and Administrative Elites from Communist to Post‐Communist Russia
Policy analysis: Some observations on the West German scene
The Fall and Rise of the Local Community: A Comparative and Historical Perspective
In pursuing an historical and comparative approach, the article aims at exploring the relation between local government and 'local community'. For comparative purposes, the paper draws primarily on the UK/England, Germany and Sweden as pertinent examples. The explicitly historical approach of the article promises to recognise (and perhaps even rediscover) the distinct and, at the same time, symbiotic and dialectic development and relation which h…
Local government reforms: Between Multifunction and Single-Purpose Organisations
The paper argues that, in ‘revisiting’ the referred-to article published back in 2004, the concept then guiding the analysis would need to be modified particularly on three scores. For one, in order to achieve a more adequate comparison the country selection should be expanded beyond the earlier sample (UK, France, Germany and Sweden) to also capture Southern and Central Eastern European countries. Second, the ‘developmental’ (‘over time’) analys…
L'évolution du rôle des collectivités locales dans l'État providence allemand
Le présent article donne un aperçu de l'évolution du rôle des collectivités locales dans l'État providence allemand. En retraçant les grandes tendances dans le domaine de l'aide sociale, des services à la personne, du logement social et des politiques locales de l'emploi depuis le début des années quatre-vingt-dix, il montre que les collectivités territoriales en Allemagne ont eu tendance à perdre une grande partie des compétences et des moyens t…
La décentralisation en Angleterre, en France et en Allemagne. De la divergence historique à la convergence
Decentralisation in England, France and Germany -From Historical Divergence to Convergence ? The comparative study of the evolution of local authorities in England, France and Germany since the 19th century, reveals the importance of historical institutional heritage in each of these Systems whether this be as a result of the influence which it still exerts, or by the reform initiatives which it has provoked. Successive usage of three typologies …
Politische Interessenvermittlung, Kommunal- und Verwaltungspolitik: Konzept der Berichtsgruppe III Stand: Juli 1995
Politik im Dickicht der Bürokratie: Beitr. zur Implementationsforschung
Experimentelle Politik — Reformstrohfeuer oder Lernstrategie
Experimentelle Politik, Reformstrohfeuer oder Lernstrategie: Bestandsaufnahme und Evaluierung
Applied urban research — towards an internationalization of research and learning: A note on the European Meeting on Applied Urban Research, October 1981, Essen, West Germany
Handbuch zur Evaluierungsforschung
Handbuch zur Evaluierungsforschung
West Germany
Policy analysis: Some observations on the West German scene
Die Zweite Stadt: Neue Formen lokaler Arbeits- und Sozialpolitik
Die Zweite Stadt: Neue Formen Lokaler Arbeits- und Sozialpolitik
Stadterneuerung im Wandel — Erfahrungen aus Ost und West
The Rise and Fall of Public and Social Housing
Policy Analysis in West Germany's Federal Government: A Case of Unfinished Governmental and Administrative Modernization
Gewerbebetriebe und Mietrecht
Spaltungen der Gesellschaft und die Zukunft des Sozialstaates: Beiträge Eines Symposiums Aus Anlaß des 60. Geburtstages Von Hans-Hermann Hartwich
Die alte Bundesrepublik: Kontinuität und Wandel
The policy orientation: Legacy and promise
The social sciences came into being as part of the modernization of Western societies in the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From the start they were preoccupied with the far-reaching effects of the transformation of traditional societies into modern ones. Their focus was on key features of the transformation. The ‘social question’, the rationalization of the world (in German debate captured by the term ‘die Moderne’), dev…
Social Sciences and Modern States: National Experiences and Theoretical Crossroads
Modern social sciences have been committed to the improvement of public policy. However, doubts have arisen about the possibility and desirability of a policy-oriented social science. In this book, leading specialists in the field analyse both the development and failings of policy-oriented social science. In contrast to other writings on the subject, this volume presents a distinctively historical and comparative approach. By looking at earlier …
Lokale Politik im Wohlfahrtsstaat: Zur Sozialpolitik der Gemeinden und ihrer Verbände in der Beschäftigungskrise
Beyond serving state and bureaucracy: Problem-oriented social science in (West) Germany
Change and Continuity of Political and Administrative Elites from Communist to Post‐Communist Russia
Kommunalpolitik
Kommunalpolitik: Politisches Handeln in den Gemeinden
Politische Strukturen im Umbruch
Transformation sozialistischer Gesellschaften: Am Ende des Anfangs
In den 28 Beitragen namhafter Fachleute aus unterschiedlichen sozialwissenschaftlichen Teildisziplinen werden Schlusselbereiche der wirtschaftlichen, gesellschaftlichen, politisch-administrativen und sozio-kulturellen Transformationen in den ehemals Landern analysiert. Die Aufsatze sind darauf gerichtet, die jeweiligen Entwicklungslinien und (Zwischen-)Ergebnisse herauszuarbeiten und hierbei den historischen, vor allem den in der sozialistischen …
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