The new episode in the DVPW series `Political Science talk´ deals with the topic "Flight and Integration: Challenges for Public Administration". With a view to the current challenges and the experiences of 2015, four experts discuss various aspects of the distribution of tasks and the performance of tasks in the…

Germany has a comparatively good supply of hospital beds. But the pandemic has shown that this is no guarantee of an adequate crisis response. A contribution by Mirella Cacace and Tanja Klenk. The corona pandemic, this is obvious, works as a magnifying glass on the performance of our healthcare system,…

Reforms of the welfare state, their prerequisites and effects are a frequently discussed topic. Relatively little attention is paid to the question of which and whose interests are heard at all in the socio-political reform discourse and how they can assert themselves This focus issue represents this underexposed aspect in…