Disziplinarische Verantwortlichkeit im öffentlichen Dienst: Analyse der gesetzlichen Regelung im Bund und im Kanton Zürich

Ziel vorliegender Arbeit ist, das Disziplinarrecht und dessen tendenzielle Abschaffung aufzu-arbeiten. Dazu wird im ersten Teil der Arbeit geprüft, ob die Grundlagen des Disziplinarrechts - die disziplinarrechtliche Verantwortlichkeit, das besondere Rechtsverhältnis sowie die Treuepflicht - nach wie vor bedeutsam sind. Weiter wird das Disziplinarwesen als rechtliches Institut begründet und die Restbestimmungen des Disziplinarrechts werden veranschaulicht. Gegenstand der Aufzeichnung des Ist-Zustandes ist weiter, den Inhalt des Disziplinarrechts aufzuzeigen und dieses von der Administrativuntersuchung, dem Strafverfahren, dem perso-nalrechtlichen Verfahren und der Umsetzung ethischer Standards abzugrenzen, um festzu-stellen, ob eines dieser Verfahren in der modernen Verwaltung dazu geeignet ist, die Funkti-on des Disziplinarverfahrens zu übernehmen. Im zweiten Teil der Arbeit werden die gewonnenen Erkenntnis verarbeitet, indem der Rege-lungsbedarf aufgezeigt und ein gesetzlicher Lösungsvorschlag präsentiert wird. Obwohl seit dem Abschluss der Dissertation wesentliche Änderungen in der Gesetzgebung vollzogen wurden, bleibt die Analyse in den Grundzügen relevant und die darauf gestützte Diskussion grundsätzlicher Fragen als Diskussionsgrundlage der disziplinarrechtlichen Ver-antwortlichkeit wesentlich. Die gewonnenen Erkenntnisse dienen dazu, interdisziplinäre Lö-sungen zu entwickeln, welche langfristig institutionelle Ordnung sicherzustellen und das Ver-trauen der Bevölkerung in staatliche Institutionen aufrecht zu erhalten vermögen.

Innovation, Coordination, and Positioning: Locational Policies of Secondary Capital City Regions

Capital cities that are not the economic centers of their nations - so-called secondary capital cities - tend to be overlooked in the field of political science. Consequentially, there is a lack of research and resulting theory describing their political economy and their formulated policies. This paper analyzes how secondary capital cities try to develop and position themselves through the formulation of locational policies. By linking three different theoretical strands - the Regional Innovation System approach, the concept of locational policies, and the regime perspective - this paper proposes a framework to study the the economic and political dynamics in secondary capital cites.

Is output performance all about the resources? A fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis of street-level bureaucrats in Switzerland

This article refines Lipsky’s (1980) assertion that lacking resources negatively affect output performance. It uses fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis to analyse the nuanced interplay of contextual and individual determinants of the output performance of veterinary inspectors as street-level bureaucrats in Switzerland. Moving ‘beyond Lipsky’, the study builds on recent theoretical contributions and a systematic comparison across organizational contexts. Against a widespread assumption, output performance is not all about the resources. The impact of perceived available resources hinges on caseloads, which prove to be more decisive. These contextual factors interact with individual attitudes emerging from diverse public accountabilities. The results contextualize the often-emphasized importance of worker-client interaction. In a setting where clients cannot escape the interaction, street-level bureaucrats are not primarily held accountable by them. Studies of output performance should thus sensibly consider gaps between what is being demanded of and offered to street-level bureaucrats, and the latter’s multiple embeddedness.

Public service motivation and performance: a critical perspective

Purpose – A growing body of literature points to the importance of public service motivation (PSM) for the performance of public organizations. The purpose of this paper is to assess the method predominantly used for studying this linkage by comparing the findings it yields without and with a correction suggested by Brewer (2006), which removes the common-method bias arising from employee-specific response tendencies. Design/methodology/approach – First, the authors conduct a systematic review of published empirical research on the effects of PSM on performance and show that all studies found have been conducted at the individual level. Performance indicators in all but three studies were obtained by surveying the same employees who were also asked about their PSM. Second, the authors conduct an empirical analysis. Using survey data from 240 organizational units within the Swiss federal government, the paper compares results from an individual-level analysis (comparable to existing research) to two analyses where the data are aggregated to the organizational level, one without and one with the correction for common-method bias suggested by Brewer (2006). Findings – Looking at the Attraction to Policy-Making dimension of PSM, there is an interesting contrast: While this variable is positively correlated with performance in both the individual-level analysis and the aggregated data analysis without the correction for common-method bias, it is not statistically associated with performance in the aggregated data analysis with the correction. Originality/value – The analysis is the first to assess the robustness of the performance-PSM linkage to a correction for common-method bias. The findings place the validity of at least one part of the individual-level linkage between PSM and performance into question.