Mar 25 2022

Blog-Post – The German health system in an international comparison

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,…
Mar 03 2022

New Publication – WSI-Mitteilungen 1/2022 special issue “Struggles for participation and influence: The representation of weak interests in the welfare state”

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…
Jan 17 2022

New Publication
Klenk, Tanja (2021): „Digitale Daseinsvorsorge – Voraussetzung für soziale und kulturelle Teilhabe im 21. Jahrhundert“, in: Blank, Florian/Schäfer, Claus/Spannagel, Dorothee (Hg.): Die Grundsicherung weiterdenken, Bielefeld: transcript, 155-170. Further information you can find here.
Dec 23 2021

New Publication

Klenk, Tanja (2021): Review of ‘Public Administration in Germany, edited by Sabine Kuhlmann, Isabella Proeller, Dieter Schimanke & Jan Ziekow’, dms – der moderne staat 14 (2), 512ff. Further information you can find here.
Dec 21 2021

New Publication

Berzel, Alex/Klenk, Tanja (2021): „Metagovernance in the Social Investment State – Lessons from the German Case“, in: Pinheiro, Rómulo/Trondal, Jarle (eds.): Organising and Governing Governmental Institutions, Essays in honour of Dag Ingvar Jacobsen, Bergen: Fagbokforlaget, 177-199. Further information you can find here.
Nov 30 2021

New Publication
Klenk, Tanja/Ettelt, Stefanie/Cacace, Mirella (2021): “Der öffentliche Gesundheitsdienst in der Corona-Krise: zwischen Hierarchie, loser Koppelung und polyzentrischer Koordination”, dms – der moderne staat 14 (2), https://www.budrich-journals.de/index.php/dms/issue/view/2872.
Sep 09 2021

EGPA 2021

The program of EGPA conference is out! You can download the program for the Permanent Study Group XX Welfare State Governance and Professionalism here.https://egpa-conference2021.org/aboutegpa.php
Aug 19 2021

New Publication
Bogumil-Uçan, Simon & Klenk, Tanja (2021): Varieties of health care digitalization: Comparing advocacy coalitions in Austria and Germany, Review of Policy Research 38 (4), 478-503. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12435
Aug 06 2021

New Publication – Susanne Dreas & Tanja Klenk: Leadership and working conditions in digitized public administration
How can the digital transformation in public administration be designed to be both: co-determinating and participation-oriented? Organizational change management practices were examined in seven pilot administrations that developed innovative measures in the fields of human resources, leadership, communication and organization as part of the model project "Leadership in the digitalized…
May 10 2021

Online-Lecture at King`s College London

In her capacity as Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London, our Research Associate Dr. Sarah Cardaun held an online lecture on Saudi-led Multinational Security Coalitions in the Middle East on 27 April 2021. The talk, which was well attended, highlighted key insights about the potential of multinational coalitions to…