Was in der Welt gelten oder als Tatbestand verbürgt sein soll, muss aktenkundig sein, denn die Behörden der ›verwalteten Welt‹ entscheiden über unsere Wirklichkeit, Identität und Handlungsmacht im ›Medium‹ der Akten. Diese stiften also zuletzt Zusammenhänge zwischen Amt und Welt, zunächst aber zwischen unterschiedlichsten Schriftstücken – egal, ob in Gestalt von Kästchen und Kisten, von Bündeln, Kladden oder Ordnern, zunehmend in Form von verschalteten Datensätzen und elektronischen Verweissystemen. Akten lassen sich deshalb als Medien verstehen, die unterschiedliche Formen der Inskription miteinander verbinden. Acta sind Arbeitsmittel, Handlungen und zugleich Medien der (Auto-)Protokollierung eines administrativen Vorgangs, in welcher Doppelfunktion sie die Rechenschaftspflicht der Verwaltungen ebenso zu erfüllen helfen, wie sie eine historiographische Dokumentation ihres Tuns ermöglichen. Als Aufschreibesystem mit spezifischem Prozesscharakter, das unablässige Rekursion mit weitreichenden Handlungsketten verbindet, waren Akten seit ihrem Aufkommen in der Frühneuzeit eine medientechnische Innovation – und sind es noch heute, im Zeitalter ihrer ›Digitalisierung‹. Dabei sind diese keineswegs nur Sache der Verwaltung: Die Geschichten der Akte/n in diesem )Band der AdminiStudies handeln auch von einer Mediengeschichte der Migration der ›Aktenmäßigkeit‹ in pädagogische oder medizinische, politische, militärische oder wirtschaftliche Organisationen sowie technische Bereiche und künstlerisch-literarische Domänen.

Digitale Identitäten sind der Schlüssel zur digitalen Souveränität – für Personen, Unternehmen und den öffentlichen Sektor. Dieser Sammelband bündelt die zentralen Erkenntnisse des Forschungsprogramms „Sichere Digitale Identitäten“ und bietet eine fundierte Basis für ein skalierbares, zukunftssicheres Identitätsmanagement.

This proceedings book focuses on innovation, cooperation, and sustainable development in the fields of construction management and real estate. The book provides a detailed analysis and description of the disciplinary frontiers in the field of building management and real estate and how they can be promoted in the context of the epidemic.

This global encyclopedic work serves as a comprehensive collection of global scholarship regarding the vast fields of public administration, public policy, governance, and management. Written and edited by leading international scholars and practitioners, this exhaustive resource covers all areas of the above fields and their numerous subfields of study. In keeping with the multidisciplinary spirit of these fields and subfields, the entries make use of various theoretical, empirical, analytical, practical, and methodological bases of knowledge.

This book presents a series of interconnected studies designed to understand systemic corruption in local governments. Coined as the Corruption Consolidation Framework (CCF), this novel approach elucidates how corruption becomes the rule in formal institutional settings and further consolidates. The CCF analyzes the problem along four dimensions, offering a unique contribution to make sense of a complex problem without oversimplifying the subject. Chapters in the book explore the CCF in case studies conducted across Latin American municipalities in Mexico, Brazil, Chile, and Puerto Rico, however, authors believe the CCF is applicable around the world both in the Global South and in Western countries. The volume is a promising tool for the academic community in the public administration, policy studies, and local government fields. It can also be used in undergraduate and graduate courses on corruption, governance, local governments, and Latin American studies. Finally, it offers a general roadmap to citizens and policymakers about what can be done in cases where corruption has become the rule of the game in local governments.

The book draws from regulation theory to explain urban planning policies and outcomes in Southeast Asia as a function of governance structures and processes. A considerable portion of the book is spent re-tracing the historical roots of planning dispositives, including the totality of institutional entities, which together constitute an apparatus of government in South-East Asian polities. Therefore, of essence in the book are the institutional structures and administrative principles, that were introduced by colonial authorities and inherited by their post-colonial successors in South-East Asia. The book seeks to demonstrate the role of the policies and commensurate implementation institutional frameworks in accounting for important dynamics in the contemporary urban domain in the region. In analyzing the institutional framework for urban planning and governance, the book is doing due diligence to a hitherto neglected subject, namely governmentality, in the discourse on the political economy of urban management in Southeast Asia. Thus, the book is intended to acknowledge the importance of institutions in determining the success of urban development policies. The notion of institutions or governmentality as will be used in the book includes, de facto governance structures, government and parastatal agencies and the formal rules and regulations they are charged with implementing. The book is based on the premise that knowledge of institutions and their functions is critical in explaining phenomena in economic geography. This is particularly true in Southeast Asian countries because of the dominant and overarching role of the state or government agencies in the economy.