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A shift in paradigm? Collaborative public administration in the context of national digitalization strategies

  • Despite claims of a paradigmatic shift toward the increased role of networks and partnerships as a form of governance—driven and enabled by digital technologies—the relation of “Networked Governance” with the pre-existing paradigms of “Traditional Weberian Public Administration” and “New Public Management” remains relatively unexplored. This research aims at collecting systematic evidence on the dominant paradigms in digitalization reforms in Europe by comparing the doctrines employed in the initial and most recent digitalization strategies across eight European countries: Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, and the United Kingdom. We challenge the claim that Networked Governance is emerging as the dominant paradigm in the context of the digitalization of the public sector. The findings confirm earlier studies indicating that information and communication technologies tend to reinforce some traditional features of administration and the recentralization of power. Furthermore, we find evidence of the continued importance of key features of “New Public Management” in the digital era.

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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author(s):Gerhard HammerschmidORCiD, Enora Palaric, Maike Rackwitz, Kai WegrichORCiD
Parent Title (English):Governance
Publication year:2023
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
First Page:1
Last Page:20
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12778
Release Date:2023/03/23
Hertie School Research:Centre for Digital Governance
AY 22/23:AY 22/23
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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