New Publication

Jan 10 2024

Klenk, Tanja, Nullmeier, Frank & Wewer, Göttrik (2024): Digitale Transformation von Staat und Verwaltung – die Pandemie als Beschleunigerin? Einführung in die Neuausgabe, in: Klenk, Tanja/ Nullmeier, Frank/ Wewer, Göttrik (eds.): Handbuch Digitalisierung in Staat und Verwaltung. Springer VS, Wiesbaden, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-23669-4_62-2.

Nov 06 2023

New publication

Henry Alexander Wittke (2023): Is there an Artificial Intelligence policy field emerging in Germany? An analysis of policy networks in the period of 2017 till 2021. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-42999-7Further information: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-35991-1

Nov 03 2023

Report on the international EnTrust conference: ‘Trust and Distrust in Governance: Exploring the Impact of Social and Political Dynamics’, Siena, Italy, 28.9.-29.9.2023

Laura Kollmann The conference was organized by the international, EU-funded ‘EnTrust’ research project, that comprises teams from Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland and Serbia. Throughout the past three years the project has investigated dynamics of trust and mistrust in regard to different levels of governance. I was part…

Aug 11 2023

EGPA 2023

The program of EGPA conference is out! You can download the program for the Permanent Study Group XX Welfare State Governance and Professionalism here. Check out what else is happening on the conference here.

Aug 01 2023

New Publication

Klenk, Tanja & Reiter, Renate (2023): Introduction to the Special Issue on social services as critical infrastructure: Taking stock of the promises of the social investment state, European Journal of Social Security, 1–8, https://doi.org/10.1177/13882627231190049, open access.

Jul 05 2023

New Publication

Klenk, Tanja & Reiter, Renate (2023): Social services as critical infrastructure – conceptualizing and studying the operational core of the social investment state, European Journal of Social Security, 1–24, online first, DOI: 10.1177/13882627231175566, open access: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/13882627231175566

Jun 09 2023

Digital transformation in Northern Hesse: E-Government

One of the driving challenges for cities and municipalities is the topic of E-Government. A shortage of personnel and resources, a lack of exchange between stakeholders, silo solutions and a lack of role models are some of the hurdles that municipalities have to overcome in order to provide their citizens…

Jun 07 2023

Artificial intelligence in the world of work – pause for reflection or speed up?

Prof. Tanja Klenk has written a blog post for DIFIS (German Institute for Interdisciplinary Social Research) about artificial intelligence in the world of work. You can find the post here. The post discusses how an appropriate regulation for the world of work 4.0, which is more and more characterized by…

May 25 2023

Successful elections – A successful model of self-adminstration in crisis – A radio report to listen to

Social elections - what is it? Until the end of May, 52 million potential voters will have the chance to decide who should be the representatives for the self-administration of their pensions, health and accident insurance. But only a few are taking part in it. An investigation on the causes.…

May 15 2023

New Publication

Klenk, Tanja/ Weiler, Thomas (2023): Digitaler Impfpass, in: Klenk, Tanja/ Nullmeier, Frank/ Wewer, Göttrik (eds.): Handbuch Digitalisierung in Staat und Verwaltung. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-23669-4_87-1.