Professor Emeritus Dr. Eberhard Bohne, M.A.

Professor Bohne (born 1944 in Bonn) held the chair of Public Administration, Policy and Law for Environmental Protection and Energy from 1996 to his retirement in 2009. He was a senior professor at the university from October 2012-October 2019. He was Head of Section III at the German Research Institute for Public Administration, Speyer until 2013.

New publications

"Verwaltungswissenschaft, Bd.1, 2. Aufl., 2023
Eine interdisziplinäre Einführung in die theoretischen und methodischen Grundlagen:

(Public Administration, Vol. 1, 2nd ed., 2023
An interdisciplinary introduction into its theoretical and methodological bases)

  • a modern introduction into public administration,
  • empirically and theoretically comprehensive
  • with a chapter on informal governance

The study of public administration is conceptualized in the book as an interdisciplinary and integrated approach to public affairs which represents an independent scientific discipline apart from public law, political science and other social sciences. The focus is on comparative analyses of

  • theoretical approaches of various social sciences to public administration during the last 130 years,
  • rational, incremental, legal, informal and collaborative decision methods of government,
  • the many manifestations of informal statehood in government, parliament, public administration, the judiciary and international organizations and the European administrative space.

Finally, public administration as an institution is defined, and the methodological bases of the empirical-analytical and normative study of public administration are outlined.

"Verwaltungswissenschaft, Bd. 2 (mit Christian Bauer), 2023

(Public Administration, Vol. 2, 2023 – with Christian Bauer,
An interdisciplinary introduction of  the main features of public administration in Germany)

Topics are

  • the forms of action and the organizational structure of public administration in a multi-level system,
  • the civil service,
  • finance and budgeting,
  • police and general regulatory authorities,
  • economic regulatory agencies,
  • environmental regulatory agencies,
  • social welfare and financial subsidies,
  • infrastructure (roads, pipelines, electric grids etc.)
  • co-production of public services by private and government organizations.

The two volumes are conceptualized as general part (Vol. 1) and special part (Vol. 2) of the study of public administration. They provide a comprehensive view on public administration in Germany.

Target groups of the two volumes

are students of social sciences, economics and law as well as public managers and other practitioners in government, business and politics who want to be successful in the “multi-disciplinary competition of public management”.

 

Contact

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Eberhard Bohne
- Emeritus


E-Mail: bohne@uni-speyer.de