@article{HammerschmidRaffer, author = {Hammerschmid, Gerhard and Raffer, Christian}, title = {Drei Schritte zur Digitalen Verwaltung Trend}, series = {Magazin f{\"u}r Soziale Marktwirtschaft}, journal = {Magazin f{\"u}r Soziale Marktwirtschaft}, number = {4/2017}, pages = {30 -- 31}, language = {de} } @techreport{HammerschmidRaffer, type = {Working Paper}, author = {Hammerschmid, Gerhard and Raffer, Christian}, title = {Public Administration Reform Trends and Reform Dynamics in Germany}, series = {Report prepared for the European Commission, DGEmployment, Social Affairs and Inclusion under the Contract VC/2016/0492 "Support for developing better country knowledge on public administration and institutional capacity building"}, journal = {Report prepared for the European Commission, DGEmployment, Social Affairs and Inclusion under the Contract VC/2016/0492 "Support for developing better country knowledge on public administration and institutional capacity building"}, language = {en} } @misc{HammerschmidGeisslerRaffer, author = {Hammerschmid, Gerhard and Geissler, Ren{\´e} and Raffer, Christian}, title = {Local Public Finance. An International Comparative Regulatory Perspective}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing}, isbn = {978-3-030-67466-3}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-67466-3}, abstract = {This book is based upon a comparative public administration research project, initiated by the Hertie School of Governance (Germany) and the Bertelsmann Foundation (Germany) and supported by a network of researchers from many EU countries. It analyzes both the regimes and the practices of local fiscal regulation in 21 European countries. The book brings together key findings of this research project. The regulatory discussion is not limited to the prominent issue of fiscal rules but focuses on every component of regulation. Beyond this, the book covers affiliated topics such as the impact of regulation for local governments, evolution of regulation, administrative costs and crisis prevention. The various book chapters throughout provide a broad picture of local public finance regulation in theory and in practice, using different theoretical and national lenses for the analysis. Furthermore, the authors investigate the effects of budgetary constraints and higher-level regulatory efforts on local governments and on democracy and public services in every European country. This book fills a gap with respect to the lack of discussion on local government finance from an international, comparative perspective and, in particular, the regulation of local public finance. With its mix of authors, this book will be useful for practitioners as well as for scholars and for theory-driven research.}, language = {en} } @incollection{HammerschmidGeisslerRaffer, author = {Hammerschmid, Gerhard and Geissler, Ren{\´e} and Raffer, Christian}, title = {Introduction: The Relevance and Conceptualisation of Local Finance Regulatory Regimes}, series = {Local Public Finance An International Comparative Regulatory Perspective}, booktitle = {Local Public Finance An International Comparative Regulatory Perspective}, editor = {Geissler, Ren{\´e} and Hammerschmid, Gerhard and Raffer, Christian}, publisher = {Springer}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-67466-3_1}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {1 -- 19}, abstract = {Although local governments are essential providers of public services and infrastructure across Europe, they ultimately depend on funding from higher levels of government. The clear relevance of local government finances necessitates effective regulation in order to ensure financial sustainability, but as of yet there has been hardly any comparative research regarding this particular topic. The 18 chapters contained in this volume bring together the work of 40 experts in the disciplines of political science, economics, and public administration research to approach the subject of local financial regulation in various scales and contexts across Europe. In this introductory chapter, we first outline key concepts such as fiscal decentralisation and regulation and briefly describe associated underlying theories and research. Secondly, we present comparative fiscal data to demonstrate the variance and trends of fiscal decentralisation across Europe. It also introduces the concept and components of regulatory regimes and develops the argument, that the effectiveness and outcome of fiscal regulation depends not only on the quality of individual components but also on the interactions of those components. We finally present the three guiding questions of this volume and provide a short overview of the chapters to follow.}, language = {en} } @techreport{HammerschmidRafferPalaricetal., type = {Working Paper}, author = {Hammerschmid, Gerhard and Raffer, Christian and Palaric, Enora and Skiera, Christin and Holler, Franziska}, title = {Internationale Erfahrungen und Best Practices f{\"u}r staatliche F{\"o}rderverfahren}, series = {Studie an die Gesch{\"a}ftsstelle der Kommission zur Vereinfachung und Verbesserung von F{\"o}rderverfahren - S{\"a}chsisches Staatsministerium der Finanzen}, journal = {Studie an die Gesch{\"a}ftsstelle der Kommission zur Vereinfachung und Verbesserung von F{\"o}rderverfahren - S{\"a}chsisches Staatsministerium der Finanzen}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-34208}, pages = {77}, abstract = {Hintergrund Eine Vereinfachung und Verbesserung von F{\"o}rderverfahren stellt angesichts der hohen Bedeutung von F{\"o}rderungen f{\"u}r Unternehmen und Kommunen ein wichtiges Unterfangen zur St{\"a}rkung von Wettbewerbsf{\"a}higkeit und Standortqualit{\"a}t dar. Die S{\"a}chsische Staatsregierung verfolgt in der aktuellen Legislaturperiode das politische Ziel einer Vereinfachung der Regelungen f{\"u}r Mittelempf{\"a}nger und Verwaltungsbeh{\"o}rden und insbesondere einer B{\"u}rokratieentlastung kleinerer Kommunen bei F{\"o}rderverfahren. Sie hat sich in ihrer Eckwerteklausur M{\"a}rz 2018 entschieden, zur Vereinfachung und Verbesserung von F{\"o}rderverfahren eine Kommission mit sachkundigen Experten einzusetzen. Die „Kommission zur Vereinfachung und Verbesserung von F{\"o}rderverfahren" wurde am 15. Mai 2018 auf Vorschlag des Staatsministers der Finanzen eingesetzt. Es ist vorgesehen, dass sie der Staatsregierung bis 31. Mai 2019 einen Abschlussbericht vorlegt. Die Kommission soll der Staatsregierung konkrete Vorschl{\"a}ge zur Vereinfachung von F{\"o}rderprogrammen unterbreiten. Hierbei soll es vor allem um Pauschalierung von Zusch{\"u}ssen, Flexibilisierung und Entb{\"u}rokratisierung der F{\"o}rderverfahren, Vereinfachungsm{\"o}glichkeiten landesrechtlicher Vorschriften und um Vorschl{\"a}ge zur Verbesserung und B{\"u}ndelung der F{\"o}rderung gehen. Insbesondere sollen Erleichterungen f{\"u}r F{\"o}rdermittelempf{\"a}nger im Fokus stehen. Die vorliegende Studie soll mit Hilfe internationaler Erfahrungen ausl{\"a}ndischer Verwaltungen in der Reform von F{\"o}rdermanagementprozessen ein weiterer Baustein bei der Entwicklung konkreter Vereinfachungsvorschl{\"a}ge sein. Daf{\"u}r werden im Folgenden sechs zum Teil weitreichende Reformen des F{\"o}rdermanagementprozesses in den Niederlanden, Kanada, Flandern (Belgien), Schweden, Wales (Großbritannien) und Irland ihrem Inhalt nach beschrieben und auf Ihre Auswirkungen hin untersucht. Es werden die wesentlichen Trends im internationalen Reformgeschehen rund um das Thema F{\"o}rderprozessmanagement identifiziert und Handlungsempfehlungen f{\"u}r die Kommission abgeleitet.}, language = {de} } @article{RackwitzRaffer, author = {Rackwitz, Maike and Raffer, Christian}, title = {Shifts in local governments' corporatization intensity: Evidence from German cities}, series = {Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory}, journal = {Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory}, doi = {10.1093/jopart/muae001}, abstract = {Why do local governments create and reform public service companies, given their uncertain economic benefits and potential damage to accountability and service transparency? Taking an extended transaction cost perspective, we argue that corporatization—the provision of public services by publicly owned companies—is a function of fiscal hardship, the decision maker's economic orientation and the level of operator transparency. Using a two-way fixed effects regression, we test this expectation on 680 investment reports of 34 German cities from 1998 to 2017, representing 11,062 year-corporatized entity combinations. We show that the drivers of corporatization are sensitive to the depth of local ownership analyzed. In doing so, we highlight the theoretical need and potential for conceptual differentiation between ownership levels along a corporation's lineage. Exploiting the data's panel structure, we also find that the intensity of corporatization has heightened since the late 1990s, largely due to increasingly complex corporate structures of indirect ownership.}, language = {en} }