Political Pausen Podcast: Burden or Relief – What Does the Digital Welfare State Deliver?

Mar 27 2026

Political Pausen Podcast: Burden or Relief – What Does the Digital Welfare State Deliver?

Digitalization and the reduction of bureaucracy are among the most recurring political promises. But what do these actually mean in concrete terms, and how do they affect the delivery of welfare state services? In this episode of the Political Pausen Podcast, Julia Schwanholz and Tanja Klenk discuss the ambivalences of…

Jan 30 2026

New Publication

Klenk, Tanja (2026): Government as a Platform im Sozialstaat: Institutionelle Voraussetzungen smarter Implementation, in: Stefan Nacke (Hg.): Smarter Sozialstaat, Freiburg: Herder, 257–268.

Jan 07 2026

New Publication

Klenk, Tanja/ Greef, Samuel/Lucks, Carla (2025): Digitalisierung der Daseinsvorsorge als kommunale Herausforderung: Wie unterschiedliche administrative Kapazitäten, digitaler Verwaltungszugang und Ungleichheit zusammenhängen, Strünck, Christoph/Wagschal, Uwe (Hrsg.): Kommunale Daseinsvorsorge. Leistungen und Herausforderungen der lokalen Demokratie, Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft – Sonderhefte, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, https://doi.org/10.1007/s41358-025-00437-6

Nov 07 2025

New Publication

Brockstedt, F. Ch. (2025). Book Review: Digital Transformation in European Public Services Complexities, Challenges, and Good Practices. Information Polity. https://doi.org/10.1177/15701255251391244

Oct 21 2025

New Publication

Tanja Klenk: Subsidiarität und Staatsreform zusammendenken, in: Wohlfahrt intern 2025 (Heft 9/10, S. 50-51). https://www.hsu-hh.de/vw/wp-content/uploads/sites/685/2025/10/Subsidiaritaets-und-Staatsreform-zusammendenken-_-Wohlfahrtintern.pdf

Oct 15 2025

Participation in the Advanced Course on Concepts and Methods in Executive Triangle Research

As part of the EU COST Action Project CA22150 – Comparative Research on the Executive Triangle in Europe (CoREx), Nina Felgendreher participated in the Advanced Course on Concepts and Methods in Executive Triangle Research at the Norwegian University Center in Paris. The course brought together young and experienced researchers from…

Sep 24 2025

New Publication

Klenk, Tanja/ Greef, Samuel (2025): Digitale Daseinsvorsorge - Noch keine Selbstverständlichkeit im ländlichen Raum, in: Der Landkreis, 95 (7-8), 345-346 , link: https://www.landkreistag.de/images/stories/zeitschrift_landkreistag/Inhalt_7-8_2025.pdf

Sep 22 2025

New Publication

Brockstedt, F. Ch., Felgendreher, N., Beneke, J. T., Veit, S., Klenk, T., Döhler, M., & Papenfuß, U. (2025). Datenreport zum Forschungsprojekt Politisch-Administrative Elite (PAE) zu Bundesoberbehörden. Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg. https://doi.org/10.24405/21070

Sep 19 2025

Successful Defense

On September 11, 2025, Baptiste Aguila successfully defended his dissertation on “Governing Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) in the European Union.”The examination committee consisted of Prof. Dr. Klenk, Prof. Dr. Geert Bouckaert (KU Leuven), Prof. Dr. Veit (HSU), and Prof. Dr. Silke Bothfeld (University of Applied Sciences Bremen).

Sep 10 2025

Automated Income Verification – Proposals for Social Administration

By Horst Bruns and Tanja Klenk AT A GLANCE Automated income verification can reduce bureaucratic burdens for both citizens and administrations, while facilitating access to the welfare state. Examples such as the basic pension supplement demonstrate that automated income assessment is feasible in practice. Broader transferability is conceivable but requires…