As a human capital crisis poses urgent challenges across multiple countries, public
administration scholars and practitioners are concerned with recruitment and selection …

Studies of decision-making in public policy may be conceived as three distinct ages of
theory building and testing. The first was the classic period of studies of decision-making …

We investigate whether politicians award intergovernmental grants to core supporters. Our
new dataset contains information on discretionary project grants from a German state …

" Why have some Western democracies experienced a substantial turn toward tougher law
and order policies whereas others have not changed their policies to a similar extent? This …

Das Kapitel stellt mit der Parteiendifferenzthese einen der klassischen Ansätze zur
Erklärung von Public Policies vor. Dazu werden in einem ersten Schritt die theoretischen …

The German federal system is conventionally understood as highly co-ordinated between
federal and regional governments and aimed at producing a 'uniformity'of living conditions …

Abstract In January 2005, the German Supreme Court permitted the state governments to
charge tuition fees. By exploiting the natural experiment, we examine how government …

EU member states have seen high levels of unemployment in recent years especially
amongst young people. At the same time the fiscal crisis of welfare states has made it …

In 2009, a new law on German debt brakes was passed: state governments are not allowed
to run structural deficits after 2020. Consolidation strategies initiated between 2009 and …

Die politikwissenschaftliche Literatur zum deutschen Föderalismus ist überaus vielfältig.
Neben Analysen der institutionellen Arrangements, ihrer Veränderungen sowie der …