Institut für Politikwissenschaft
At the chair 'Public Administration, Public Policy' we are concerned in research and teaching with the 'mechanics' of governing, and with power exercised 'from the second row'. For 'politics in its everyday work is administration ' (Max Weber).
Prof. Behnke participates at the online-dialogue “Challenges of crisis management in the federal system”
September 24, 2023
Papers at the ECPR General Conference in Prague, 04-09 September 2023
September 18, 2023
New Publication: “Understanding Collective Agency in the Long-Term Perspective: A Historical Comparative Case Study of Local Government Associations in Germany and the United States.”
July 31, 2023
In the current issue of Historical Social Research Nathalie Behnke, Jonas Bernhard, and Till Jürgens examine the historical development of collective agency of local government associations in Germany and the United States.
Jonas Bernhard presents a working paper at the workshop of the DVPW 'Themengruppe Föderalismus' in Aachen
July 31, 2023
At the chair we investigate administrative coordination processes in policy-making and in multi-level systems. Besides comparative studies, our main focus is on administrations in the German multi-level system – from local level to Länder and federal levels up to the EU. Concomitantly, we take on a theoretical perspective of 'multi-level governance'.
Beside the federal distribution of powers and public service personnel, public finances are a major research theme in our group. These are external factors for administrative work. Also, we analyse coordination processes within and between administrations as well as across levels of government as crucial 'internal' conditions for effective administrative work. Finally, we investigate conditions and processes of local policy implementation in various policy fields.
We teach various courses in the BA- and MA programmes of the Institute of Political Science. Among those are an introductory lecture on Public Administration, introductory seminars on Public Policy as well as advanced seminars on governance, government, local administration and finances, public service and multi-level governance. On those topics, we supervise theses at BA, MA and PhD levels.