New Publication

Oct 21 2025

Tanja Klenk: Subsidiarität und Staatsreform zusammendenken, in: Wohlfahrt intern 2025 (Heft 9/10, S. 50-51). https://www.hsu-hh.de/vw/wp-content/uploads/sites/685/2025/10/Subsidiaritaets-und-Staatsreform-zusammendenken-_-Wohlfahrtintern.pdf

Oct 15 2025

Participation in the Advanced Course on Concepts and Methods in Executive Triangle Research

As part of the EU COST Action Project CA22150 – Comparative Research on the Executive Triangle in Europe (CoREx), Nina Felgendreher participated in the Advanced Course on Concepts and Methods in Executive Triangle Research at the Norwegian University Center in Paris. The course brought together young and experienced researchers from…

Sep 24 2025

New Publication

Klenk, Tanja/ Greef, Samuel (2025): Digitale Daseinsvorsorge - Noch keine Selbstverständlichkeit im ländlichen Raum, in: Der Landkreis, 95 (7-8), 345-346 , link: https://www.landkreistag.de/images/stories/zeitschrift_landkreistag/Inhalt_7-8_2025.pdf

Sep 22 2025

New Publication

Brockstedt, F. Ch., Felgendreher, N., Beneke, J. T., Veit, S., Klenk, T., Döhler, M., & Papenfuß, U. (2025). Datenreport zum Forschungsprojekt Politisch-Administrative Elite (PAE) zu Bundesoberbehörden. Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg. https://doi.org/10.24405/21070

Sep 19 2025

Successful Defense

On September 11, 2025, Baptiste Aguila successfully defended his dissertation on “Governing Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) in the European Union.”The examination committee consisted of Prof. Dr. Klenk, Prof. Dr. Geert Bouckaert (KU Leuven), Prof. Dr. Veit (HSU), and Prof. Dr. Silke Bothfeld (University of Applied Sciences Bremen).

Sep 10 2025

Automated Income Verification – Proposals for Social Administration

By Horst Bruns and Tanja Klenk AT A GLANCE Automated income verification can reduce bureaucratic burdens for both citizens and administrations, while facilitating access to the welfare state. Examples such as the basic pension supplement demonstrate that automated income assessment is feasible in practice. Broader transferability is conceivable but requires…

Aug 15 2025

Successful dissertation!

Max Nagel has successfully defended his dissertation "The Zombification of Ideas – The Persistence of Zombie Ideas in Public Policy and Public Administration". The Public Administration team at HSU congratulates him on this achievement.

Aug 04 2025

Shaping the Digitalization of Social Services Together

This year’s PIAZZA Conference will take place on November 6 – featuring exciting digital workshops at the intersection of public administration, civil society, and academia. Together with Doris Allhutter (ITA of the Austrian Academy of Sciences), the Chair of Public Administration will moderate a workshop that explores shifting boundaries between the welfare state,…

Jul 11 2025

EGOS 2025 – Public and Private Sector Resilience: Creative Action that ‘Goes a Long Way’ through Turbulent Times

From July 3–5, 2025, the EGOS Conference took place in Athens. The Chair of Public Administration was involved in organizing a panel on resilience in the public and private sectors.The full program is available here.

Jul 01 2025

New Publication

Cardaun, Sarah, und Sylvia Veit (2025). „Integrierte Sicherheit durch einen Sicherheitsrat? Ansätze zur Institutionalisierung der Nationalen Sicherheitsstrategie.“ In Zeitschrift für Politik, Sonderband 13, Janusch, Holger, und Thomas Dörfler (Hrsg.): Integrierte Sicherheit für Deutschland? Baden-Baden. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft: 201-2020. doi.org/10.5771/9783748951094-201