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).
Behnke, Nathalie and Steffen Eckhard (2022): A systemic perspective on crisis management and resilience in Germany.
June 21, 2022
n: dms – der moderne staat – Zeitschrift für Public Policy, Recht und Management 15, 1: 3-19.
Just published: dms special issue 1-2022 “Crisis management by politics, administration, and society in Germany”
June 21, 2022
guest edited by Nathalie Behnke and Steffen Eckhard
COST Action 20123 "Intergovernmental Coordination from Local to European level
Mai 26, 2022
DVPW-Gesprächsreihe „Politikwissenschaft im Gespräch“; aktuelle Folge zum Thema „Flucht und Integration: Herausforderungen für die öffentliche Verwaltung“
Mai 25, 2022
Gesprächsimpuls von Prof. Nathalie Behnke mit dem Beitrag "Wer zahlt für die Gelüchteten? Praktische Umsetzung des Konnexitätsprinzips"
Bonner Rede zur Demokratie 2022
Mai 19, 2022
Auf der diesjährigen 'Bonner Rede zur Demokratie' der Konrad Adenauer Stiftung beteiligte sich Nathalie Behnke mit einem Impulsvortrag zur Rolle der Kommunen.
Institutskolloquium – laufende Vortragsreihe im SoSe 2022
Mai 19, 2022
Zur Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Austauschs am Institut für Politikwissenschaft findet dieses Semester erstmals seit Beginn der Pandemie wieder ein Institutskolloquium statt.
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.