18. April 2024
Also in 2024, works councils are once again invited to present their projects at the German Works Council Award (DPRP). Prof. Dr. Tanja Klenk is participating as a juror for the first time this year. In this interview, she explains why the work of works councils is important.
28. October 2025
Pinheiro, Rómulo/ Gänzle, Stefan/ Klenk, Tanja/ Trondal, Jarle (2024): Unpacking strategic alliances in European higher education – Editorial to the special issue. Tertiary Education and Management 29, 213–228 (2023). Further information can be found here.
28. October 2025
The call for papers for the EGPA 2024 conference is out! You can download the call for papers of the Permanent Study Group XX Welfare State Governance and Professionalism here. Further information you can find here: https://www.iias-iisa.org/events/egpa-2024-conference/
10. January 2024
Klenk, Tanja, Nullmeier, Frank & Wewer, Göttrik (2024): Digitale Transformation von Staat und Verwaltung – die Pandemie als Beschleunigerin? Einführung in die Neuausgabe, in: Klenk, Tanja/ Nullmeier, Frank/ Wewer, Göttrik (eds.): Handbuch Digitalisierung in Staat und Verwaltung. Springer VS, Wiesbaden, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-23669-4_62-2.
28. October 2025
Vedder, S., Friedländer, B., Bogumil-Uçan, S., Klenk, T. (2023). Does Context Matter?
Governance Models in Local Administration.
Central European Public Administration Review, 21(2), pp. 53–76
OPEN ACCESS: https://cepar.fu.uni-lj.si/index.php/CEPAR/issue/view/78
6. November 2023
Henry Alexander Wittke (2023): Is there an Artificial Intelligence policy field emerging in Germany? An analysis of policy networks in the period of 2017 till 2021. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-42999-7
Further information: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-35991-1
3. November 2023
Laura Kollmann
The conference was organized by the international, EU-funded ‘EnTrust’ research project, that comprises teams from Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland and Serbia. Throughout the past three years the project has investigated dynamics of trust and mistrust in regard to different levels of governance.
I was part of the panel on ‘The Realm of Bureaucracy, Local Institutions and the Creation of Dis/Trust’ where I presented findings from my PhD research on the role of dis/trust in the work of ‘street-level bureaucrats’ in the public employment service in Sweden and Germany. I received very valuable feedback and there were many interesting points of discussion with the other participants that have for example conducted research on the role of dis/trust in regard to ‘street-level bureaucrats’ in social assistance programs in different countries in Europe.
Other panels for example engaged with the topics of ‘Protest, Political Contestation, and the Formation of Dis/Trust’, ‘Navigating Trust and Distrust in the Era of the COVID-19 Pandemic’ and ‘Trust and Distrust in the Context of Migration and Refugees’. Throughout the conference I had many interesting conversations that are valuable for my current research as well as for future research projects. Additionally, a range of people inquired about the research and teaching at the faculty and Helmut-Schmidt University more broadly, which I was happy to report about.
6. November 2023
6. November 2023
Klenk, Tanja & Reiter, Renate (2023): Introduction to the Special Issue on social services as critical infrastructure: Taking stock of
the promises of the social investment state, European Journal of Social Security, 1–8, https://doi.org/10.1177/13882627231190049, open access.
1. August 2023
Klenk, Tanja & Reiter, Renate (2023): Social services as critical infrastructure – conceptualizing and studying the operational core of the social investment state, European Journal of Social Security, 1–24, online first, DOI: 10.1177/13882627231175566, open access: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/13882627231175566