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).
Prospects for Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals
May 22, 2023
Monday, 22 May 2023, 18:00 S1/05/22 (TU Darmstadt)
The Research Training Group “Standards of Governance” is inviting to a public lecture by Peter M. Haas (University of Massachusetts)
Repositioning of the assistant of the research group
April 06, 2023
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April 05, 2023
Christian Person, Nathalie Behnke und Till Jürgens (2023): Effects of Territorial Party Politics on Horizontal Coordination among the German Länder – An Analysis of the COVID-19 Pandemic Management in Germany.
Prof. Behnke as expert in the Enquête-Kommission “Krisenfeste Gesellschaft” oft he Regional Parliament of Baden-Württemberg
February 03, 2023
Research Fellowship for Till Jürgens at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies der Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC
January 11, 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.