Cohen, Nissim, Klenk, Tanja, Davidovitz, Maayan, Cardaun, Sarah (2022): “Varieties of welfare markets from a street-level perspective: Comparing long-term care services in Germany and Israel”, Public Administration Review, DOI: 10.1111/puar.13549 How does the marketization of social service provision impact the practices of street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) towards their clients? To explore…

The program of EGPA conference is out! You can download the program for the Permanent Study Group XX Welfare State Governance and Professionalism here. Check out what else is happening on the conference here: http://www.egpa-conference2022.org/

The new episode in the DVPW series `Political Science talk´ deals with the topic "Flight and Integration: Challenges for Public Administration". With a view to the current challenges and the experiences of 2015, four experts discuss various aspects of the distribution of tasks and the performance of tasks in the…

Germany has a comparatively good supply of hospital beds. But the pandemic has shown that this is no guarantee of an adequate crisis response. A contribution by Mirella Cacace and Tanja Klenk. The corona pandemic, this is obvious, works as a magnifying glass on the performance of our healthcare system,…

Reforms of the welfare state, their prerequisites and effects are a frequently discussed topic. Relatively little attention is paid to the question of which and whose interests are heard at all in the socio-political reform discourse and how they can assert themselves This focus issue represents this underexposed aspect in…