The Civil Service in Europe A Research Companion

Preface; Introduction; Part I: Concepts, Origins and Challenges; 1. Defining the Civil Service: Towards a Better Understanding of the Nature of Civil Service Systems in Europe; 2. Governing and Administering: The European Origins and Traditions of Civil Service; 3. The Changing Tasks and Environment of Public Administration: Challenges for the Civil Service; Part II: The Transformation of National Civil Service Systems; 4. 5. The Civil Service in Belgium: Between Fragmentation and Common Principles; 7. The Civil Service in France: The Evolution and Permanence of the Career System; 8.9. The Civil Service in Hungary: Differentiation and Privatisation Trends; 11. The Civil Service in the Netherlands: The Normalisation of the Legal Status of Civil Servants; 12. The Civil Service in Poland: A Turbulent Path towards Professionalism, Merit-Based Recruitment and Insulation from Politicisation; 13. The Civil Service in Spain: The Deficit of Organisation in Public Employment and the Principle of Democracy; 14. The Civil Service in Sweden: Duality and Non-Specific Status of Civil Servants; 15. The Civil Service in Switzerland: Between Flexibility and Tradition; 16.17. The Civil Service in Ukraine: Transformation in Times of War; 18. Development of the Civil Service in a Comparative Perspective; Part III: Supra- and International Systems of Civil Service; 19. The Civil Service of the European Union; 20. The Civil Service in International Organisations: The Example of the Coordinated Organisations; Part IV: In Search of Common European Standards: Public Sector Employment Regimes; 21.22.23. Ensuring the Independence of the Civil Service: Civil Service, Rule of Law and Democratic Backsliding; 24.25. The Disciplinary Responsibility of Civil Servants: European Minimum Standards; 26. The Basic Principles of Civil Servants' Remuneration: A Legal and Human Resource Management Analysis from a European Perspective; 27.28. Administrative Law and Bureaucratic Autonomy in a Comparative European Perspective; Part V: Gender Equality and Non-discrimination in the Civil Service; 29.30.Part VI: The Civil Service in the Digital Age; 31. The Internet and Digital Technologies as Essential Tools for the Civil Service; 32. The Civil Service and Artificial Intelligence; 33.34. Digital Competencies in the Civil Service; Part VII: The Role of Ethics in the Civil Service, Administrative Culture and the Fight Against Corruption; 35. Ethical Standards for the Civil Service in Europe: Substitutes for or Complements of Legal Rules?; 36. The Civil Service in Transition - The Ongoing Transformation of Administrative Culture; 37. Common European Anti-Corruption-Standards for Civil Servants; 38. Europeanisation and the Impact of Deliberative and Participatory Democracy on the Civil Service; Part VIII: Rights and Freedoms of Civil Servants; 39.40.41. Freedom of Religion or Belief in the Civil Service: How to Stay Loyal to the State While Remaining True to Oneself?; 42.43.44.45.46. The Right to a Fair Trial for Civil Servants and the Importance of the State's Interest in Applying Article 6, Paragraph 1 ECHR; Part IX: The Transformation of the Civil Service under the Influence of a New Conceptualisation of Public Administration; 47. Do Public Management Concepts Have an Impact on Civil Service Regimes?; 48. Leading Trends in the Development of the Civil Service in Europe; 49. Political Influence and the Transformation of Civil Service Systems; 50. Civil Service Adaptation and Reform in the Context of European Governance, (De-) Europeanisation and National Competition; 51. Transformational Impulses of International Law and Union Law for the Civil Service