The European Public Servant
A Shared Administrative Identity?
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Fritz Sager and Patrick Overeem
Fritz Sager and Patrick Overeem 2015
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List of Figures and Tables
Figures
Tables
Table 13.2: Descriptive statistics
List of Abbreviations
ARAR
Algemeen Rijksambtenarenreglement, by-law to the Dutch CSA
BCE
Before the Common Era
CAP
Common Agricultural Policy
CSA
Civil Service Act
CNCAP
Code of Non-contentious Administrative Procedures
EAS
European Administrative Space
EEC
European Economic Community
ENA
cole Nationale dAdministration (National School of Administration)
EP
European Parliament
EU
European Union
FRG
Federal Republic of Germany
GP
Groot Plakkaat Boek: Great Ordinances Books of the United Dutch Provinces (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries)
IEP
Institut dtudes Politiques (Institute of Political Studies)
IFS
Irish Free State
IMF
International Monetary Fund
IPA
Institute of Public Administration
NA
Nationaal Archief: The Netherlands National Archive
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NESC
National Economic & Social Council (Republic of Ireland)
NPM
New public management
ODNB
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
OEEC
Organisation for European Economic Co-operation
OECD
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
OED
Oxford English Dictionary
PA
Public Administration, the science of public administration
PAS
Politicaladministrative system
PPBS
Planning, Programming and Budgeting System
PSB
Public service bargain
TK
Tweede Kamer: Proceedings of the Dutch Lower House of the States General
WW2
World War II
Contributors
JULIA-CAROLIN BRACHEM is a research assistant at the HIS-Institute for Research on Higher Education, Hannover, Germany.
BERNADETTE CONNAUGHTON is a lecturer at the Department of Politics and Public Administration of the University of Limerick, Ireland.
GERRIT DIJKSTRA is an assistant professor at the Institute of Public Administration of Leiden University, The Netherlands.
NIELS HEGEWISCH is a research assistant at the Institute for Political Science of the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University, Greifswald, Germany.
PASCAL HURNI is a PhD candidate at the Center of Competence for Public Management of the University of Bern, Switzerland.
LARS JOHANNSEN is an associate professor at the Department of Political Science and Government of Aarhus University, Denmark.
CLINE MAVROT is a research assistant at the Center of Competence for Public Management at the University of Bern, Switzerland.
PATRICK OVEREEM is an assistant professor at the Institute of Public Administration of Leiden University, The Netherlands.
JOANNE PAUL is a lecturer at the New College of the Humanities, London, United Kingdom.
KARIN HILMER PEDERSEN is an associate professor in Comparative Politics at the Department of Political Science and Government of the University of Aarhus, Denmark.
JOS RAADSCHELDERS is a professor of Public Administration at the John Glenn School of Ohio State University, United States.
CHRISTIAN ROSSER is a fellow at the Center of Excellence Cultural Foundations of Social Integration of the University of Konstanz, Germany, and a research associate of the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
MARK R. RUTGERS is a professor of Philosophy of Public Administration in the Department of Political Sciences of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
FRITZ SAGER is a professor of Political Science at the Center of Competence for Public Management of the University of Bern, Switzerland.
KOEN STAPELBROEK is an associate professor at the Department of Public Administration of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
GAYIL TALSHIR is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
MARKUS TEPE is a professor of Political Science at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Oldenburg, Germany.
CASPAR VAN DEN BERG is an assistant professor at the Institute of Public Administration of Leiden University, The Netherlands and visiting fellow at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University, United States.
