Last week, Max Einhaus from the Chair of Public Administration took part in the ENPA Workshop in Ghent, Belgium. The European Network for Public Administration was launched in Bucharest this spring, with strong participation from HSU’s Public Administration group. Its first interim workshop was held under the title “Exploring the…

Who Is Building the Digital Welfare State? Big Tech, Welfare Tech, Public-Sector IT, and the Potential for a Civil-Society Innovation System At this year’s NEGZ Autumn Conference, Max Einhaus will lead the workshop “Who Is Building the Digital Welfare State?” The workshop examines different institutional models of digital innovation and…

The Chair of Public Administration was represented with three papers at this year’s EGPA Conference in Rome. The papers address the acceptance and legitimacy of artificial intelligence in public administration, scandals in public administration, and the resilience of public organizations. The Chair was also involved in the Permanent Study Group…

Einhaus, M., Klenk, T. (2026). Politische Ökonomie und Governance des „Digitalen Sozialstaats“: Kommunalpolitische Spannungsfelder. In: Brettschneider, A., Grohs, S., Jehles, N. (eds) Handbuch Kommunale Sozialpolitik. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-38616-0_8-1 For the handbook Municipal Social Policy, Maximilian Einhaus and Prof. Dr. Tanja Klenk address the question of the technical infrastructure of…