1. February 2023
Henry Alexander Wittke, external doctoral candidate at the chair of Prof. Dr. Tanja Klenk, has well defended his doctoral thesis about Artificial Intelligence. Mr Wittke completed his doctorate at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences from 2019 to 2023. The title of his thesis is: Is there an Artificial Intelligence policy field emerging in Germany? An analysis of policy networks in the period of 2017 till 2021.
31. January 2023
Cacace, Mirella, Jan Böcken, Kristin Edquist, Tanja Klenk, Mario Martinez-Jimenez, Uwe Preusker, Karsten Vrangbaek, and Ruth Waitzberg. “Coping with COVID-19: the Role of Hospital Care Structures and Capacity Expansion in Five Countries.” Health Economics, Policy and Law, 2023, 1–18. doi:10.1017/S1744133122000275
19. January 2023
5. January 2023
Implementing Digitalization in the Public Sector: Professionals’ and Citizens’ Points of View
ICPP6 – TORONTO 2023, Panel T06P03
Deadline: 31/1/23
14. December 2022
We welcome Laura Kollmann, who has joined our team recently. Laura Kollmann works on the topics of street-level bureaucracy, the public employment service and comparative welfare state research. You can find further information under the following link.
10. November 2022
2. November 2022
Klenk, Tanja: Digitalisierung im Bereich sozialer Dienstleistungen – eine Literaturstudie, Duisburg/Bremen: DIFIS, download unter: https://difis.org/f/0570c5be7a.pdf
Extant literature has furthered our understanding of the digital transformation in social service provision and its intended and unintended consequences. Based on a sample of 193 articles, this systematic literature review explores the breadth and depth of the existing body of literature. Comparing the international literature with the German debate shows that the potential for methodologically and theoretically pluralistic digitalization research is not yet fully realized.
The overall aim of this study is to initiate a debate between academia and practice to identify relevant research questions and to develop appropriate theories and methods for the study of the digital transformation of social service provision.
27. October 2022
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 this question, we compare the markets for ambulatory long-term care for the elderly in Germany and Israel, which differ in the latitude of choice offered to clients and the intensity of state regulation. Based on 52 qualitative interviews with SLBs and managers of care providers, our study shows that in both countries, institutional contexts play a significant role in shaping street-level bureaucracy practices. We found that SLBs and managers in Israel engage in entrepreneurial behavior, whereas their German counterparts adopt administrative practices. By identifying these tendencies as responses to the respective welfare market characteristics, the article makes an important contribution to the field of comparative SLB research and furthers our understanding of the broader implications of the marketization of welfare services.
19. October 2022
Braun, Bernard/Klenk, Tanja/ Klemens, Uwe (Eds.) (2022): SELBST verwalten! Wie Ehrenamtliche unser Gesundheitswesen mitgestalten, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer
Aim of this book is to make social self-administration known to a broader public. For the first time, the history, working methods, importance and developing trends of this institution are presented comprehensively and in context. Articles by scientists are supplemented by contributions from politics and the public as well as practical reports by self-administration actors.
7. September 2022
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/