@article{HustedtSeyfried, author = {Hustedt, Thurid and Seyfried, Markus}, title = {Co-ordination across internal organisational boundaries: How the EU Commission co-ordinates climate policies.}, series = {Journal of European Public Policy}, volume = {23}, journal = {Journal of European Public Policy}, number = {6}, doi = {10.1080/13501763.2015.1074605}, pages = {888 -- 905}, abstract = {Through an analysis of climate policy-making in the European Commission (EU), this article argues that co-ordination in the Commission displays the same characteristics as the co-ordination across ministries in central governments, i.e., the properties of negative co-ordination. The article is based on a survey among Commission officials. Overall, the article reveals that a public administration perspective on the Commission proves invaluable to gain insights on how decisions are made at the European Union level. The article contributes to the emerging literature viewing the Commission as an ordinary bureaucracy - as opposed to a unique supranational organization.}, language = {en} } @article{Hustedt, author = {Hustedt, Thurid}, title = {Negative Koordination in der Klimapolitik: Die Interministerielle Arbeitsgruppe Anpassungsstrategie}, series = {der moderne staat (dms)}, volume = {7}, journal = {der moderne staat (dms)}, number = {2}, issn = {1865-7192}, doi = {10.3224/dms.v7i2.17319}, pages = {311 -- 330}, abstract = {Der Artikel untersucht interministerielle Koordination am Beispiel der Interministeriellen Arbeitsgruppe Anpassungsstrategie (IMA) und nimmt mit der Klimaanpassungspolitik eine Querschnittspolitik mit einem ausgepr{\"a}gten Koordinationsbedarf in den Blick. Der Beitrag zeigt, dass die Arbeitsweise der IMA {\"u}berwiegend den Merkmalen negativer Koordination entspricht, da das federf{\"u}hrende Ressort eine inhaltlich gestaltende Rolle wahrnimmt, Informationen {\"u}berwiegend gesammelt, Konsens per Veto hergestellt wird und der durch die IMA erarbeitete „Aktionsplan Anpassung" (APA) weder eine ressort{\"u}bergreifende Zielvorstellung noch ressort{\"u}bergreifende Maßnahmen repr{\"a}sentiert. Vielmehr sind der Koordinationsprozess sowie der APA durch selektive Perzeptionen sowie singul{\"a}re Ressortinteressen gepr{\"a}gt. Diese zeigen sich in einer auf den Schutz des eigenen Zust{\"a}ndigkeitsbereichs ausgerichteten Haltung der Ressortvertreter, dem auf dem Ressortprinzip basierenden Veto als Entscheidungsmodus sowie in der Dominanz einzelner Ressortprojekte im APA. Der Beitrag basiert auf Experteninterviews und einer Dokumentenauswertung.}, language = {de} } @article{HustedtSalomonsen, author = {Hustedt, Thurid and Salomonsen, Heidi Houlberg}, title = {Ensuring political responsiveness: Politicization mechanisms in ministerial bureaucracies.}, series = {International Review of Administrative Sciences}, volume = {80}, journal = {International Review of Administrative Sciences}, number = {4}, issn = {0020-8523 (print), 1461-7226 (online)}, doi = {10.1177/0020852314533449}, pages = {746 -- 765}, abstract = {Although politicization is a perennial research topic in public administration to investigate relationships between ministers and civil servants, the concept still lacks clarification. This article contributes to this literature by systematically identifying different conceptualizations of politicization and suggests a typology including three politicization mechanisms to strengthen the political responsiveness of the ministerial bureaucracy: formal, functional and administrative politicization. The typology is empirically validated through a comparative case analysis of politicization mechanisms in Germany, Belgium, the UK and Denmark. The empirical analysis further refines the general idea of Western democracies becoming 'simply' more politicized, by illustrating how some politicization mechanisms do not continue to increase, but stabilize - at least for the time being.}, language = {en} } @article{Hustedt, author = {Hustedt, Thurid}, title = {Analyzing Policy Advice: The Case of Climate Policy in Germany}, series = {Central European Journal of Public Policy}, volume = {7}, journal = {Central European Journal of Public Policy}, number = {1}, issn = {1802-4866}, pages = {88 -- 110}, abstract = {Research in public administration and public policy is remarkably split between institutional approaches and policy analytical approaches. Whereas institutional approaches, most often in (comparative) public administration, identify features of politico-administrative systems to account for policy-making such as politicization or the role of the centre, policy perspectives explain policy-making by factors related to the respective policy domain, e.g. frames or agenda-setting. This divide becomes crucial in the analysis of policy advice. On the one hand, advisory systems are affected by features of politico-administrative systems because bureaucrats represent important sources of advice to ministers. On theother hand, advisory systems also vary across policy domains. The paper aims to reconcile the two approaches by analyzing the constitution of policy advisory systems as affected by both institutional and policy factors. The article argues that the composition and role of advisory systems and their components basically depend upon how the problem structure of a given policy domain prompts the involved actors to use the institutional context to impose their specific problem perception, and hence to determine the relevant knowledge in policy advice. Hence, the paper focuses on the question which institutional and policy-level factors affect the constitution of the policy advisory system in climate policy-making in German federal government.}, language = {en} } @book{Hustedt, author = {Hustedt, Thurid}, title = {Ministerialverwaltung im Wandel}, publisher = {Nomos}, isbn = {9783848707881 (print), 9783845250182 (online)}, doi = {10.5771/9783845250182}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {547}, abstract = {Ankn{\"u}pfend an neuere Forschungsergebnisse zum Verh{\"a}ltnis von Politik und Ministerialverwaltung wird untersucht, wie und warum sich Struktur und Rolle der Leitungsbereiche deutscher und d{\"a}nischer Ministerien seit 1980 gewandelt haben. Die Studie zeigt, dass die Ministerialverwaltungen beider L{\"a}nder unter einem diffusen Anpassungsdruck stehen, der selektiv auf einen Bedeutungszuwachs der Leitungsbereiche hinwirkt, aber unterschiedlich verarbeitet wird. Der l{\"a}nderspezifische Bedeutungszuwachs der Leitungsbereiche wird anhand unterschiedlich wirkender institutioneller Filter erkl{\"a}rt, die auf die jeweilige Institutionalisierung des Verh{\"a}ltnisses von Politik und Verwaltung zur{\"u}ckzuf{\"u}hren sind. Die Untersuchung bietet einen fundierten empirischen Einblick in den Wandel von Organisation und Rollenwahrnehmung der Leitungsbereiche und st{\"o}ßt damit in eine L{\"u}cke der vergleichenden Verwaltungsforschung.}, language = {de} } @incollection{Hustedt, author = {Hustedt, Thurid}, title = {Germany: Smooth and silent emergence of advisory roles}, series = {Ministers, Minders and Mandarins: An International Study of Relationships at the Executive Summit of Parliamentary Democracies}, booktitle = {Ministers, Minders and Mandarins: An International Study of Relationships at the Executive Summit of Parliamentary Democracies}, editor = {Shaw, Richard and Eichbaum, Chris}, publisher = {Edward Elgar}, address = {London}, isbn = {9781786431684}, doi = {10.4337/9781786431691.00010}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {72 -- 90}, abstract = {These days leadership staff units in German federal ministries perform a distinct advisory role. Over time the former small assistance units have developed into fully fledged staff units, the heads of which, in particular, serve as close and confidant advisers to ministers. That is, although not appointed under special conditions or introduced by a formal reform process, they serve as the functional equivalents to the special or ministerial advisers found elsewhere. This chapter explores the emergence, contribution and role of the staff units and argues that the institutionalization of the relationship between politics and administration accounts for the smooth and silent emergence of the advisory role.}, language = {en} } @incollection{HustedtRadtke, author = {Hustedt, Thurid and Radtke, Ina}, title = {In die Ecke Besen, Besen...Die Einsetzung von Fl{\"u}chtlingskoordinatoren in Deutschland - neutrale Meister in Zeiten der Krise?}, series = {Migrationspolitik in Deutschland und Polen}, booktitle = {Migrationspolitik in Deutschland und Polen}, editor = {Franzke, Jochen and Koszel, Bogdan and Sakson, Andrzej}, publisher = {WeltTrends}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {9783945878644}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {77 -- 102}, language = {de} } @incollection{Hustedt, author = {Hustedt, Thurid}, title = {Der Rutschbahneffekt Ministerielle Leitungsbereiche zwischen Bonn und Berlin}, series = {Der gut organisierte Staat: Festschrift f{\"u}r Werner Jann zum 65. Geburtstag.}, booktitle = {Der gut organisierte Staat: Festschrift f{\"u}r Werner Jann zum 65. Geburtstag.}, editor = {D{\"o}hler, Marian and Franzke, Jochen and Wegrich, Kai}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {ISBN print: 978-3-8487-2062-0, ISBN online: 978-3-8452-6270-3}, doi = {10.5771/9783845262703-188}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {188 -- 211}, language = {de} } @incollection{Hustedt, author = {Hustedt, Thurid}, title = {Inter-Ministerial Coordination: A Working Group in Climate Policy.}, series = {Organizing for Coordination in the Public Sector. Practices and Lessons from 12 European Countries.}, booktitle = {Organizing for Coordination in the Public Sector. Practices and Lessons from 12 European Countries.}, editor = {Per, L{\ae}greid and Randma-Liiv, Tiina and Lise H., Rykkja and Sarapuu, K{\"u}lli}, publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan}, address = {London}, isbn = {9781349675784}, doi = {10.1057/9781137359636_13}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {153 -- 162}, abstract = {The following case study introduces coordination in climate adaptation policy, which is often regarded as a 'wicked issue' (Head, 2008) and thus characterized by strong complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity. In general, the field of climate policy is split between mitigation policy, that is targeting the causes of climate change mainly through emission reduction, and adaptation policy that seeks to establish measures to prepare for the adverse effects of climate change that are assumed to be inevitable, for example, in the area of coastal protection due to expected sea-level rise. Whereas German climate policy has traditionally been focusing on mitigation policy, adaptation policy assumes a latecomer position on the agenda of the federal government. In 2008, the German federal government established a distinct inter-ministerial working group (IMA Anpassungsstrategie, IMA) to cope with the complexity of the issue and to coordinate climate adaptation policy. Its main initial task was to develop an implementation plan of the National Adaptation Strategy approved in 2008. This chapter focuses on how IMA prepared the implementation plan from 2008 until 2011. Empirical data on inter-ministerial working groups in German federal government is generally rare. Inter-ministerial working groups are often established on an ad hoc basis (even though some seem to be permanent) to either jointly prepare drafts, or to solve inter-ministerial conflicts.}, language = {en} } @incollection{Hustedt, author = {Hustedt, Thurid}, title = {Institutions and forms of knowledge: Organizing policy advice.}, series = {Knowledge and Policy Change}, booktitle = {Knowledge and Policy Change}, editor = {Lindberg, Henrik}, publisher = {Cambridge Scholars Publishing}, address = {Cambridge}, isbn = {9781443842327}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {42 -- 59}, language = {en} } @incollection{FleischerHustedt, author = {Fleischer, Julia and Hustedt, Thurid}, title = {Sectoral Dynamics In Executive Politics: Coordinating Climate Policy in Germany.}, series = {Executive Politics in Times of Crisis}, booktitle = {Executive Politics in Times of Crisis}, editor = {Lodge, Martin and Wegrich, Kai}, publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan}, address = {London}, isbn = {9781137010261}, doi = {10.1057/9781137010261_14}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {264 -- 283}, abstract = {Climate change has emerged on governmental agendas throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, especially following the signing of the Kyoto Protocol (the Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCC) in 1997. The intricacies of the issue, political disputes about scientific evidence, the requirement to deal with an inter-generational policy problem and the need for international problem-solving devices make climate change a 'wicked issue'. In addition, climate change as a policy issue conflicts with other governmental priorities, such as dealing with social redistribution and economic development. Such a context makes international co-ordination particularly difficult, as evidenced during the Climate Change Conference COP-15 in December 2009 in Copenhagen (Pralle 2009).}, language = {en} } @incollection{Hustedt, author = {Hustedt, Thurid}, title = {Agenturen}, series = {Verwaltungsstrukturen in der Europ{\"a}ischen Union}, booktitle = {Verwaltungsstrukturen in der Europ{\"a}ischen Union}, editor = {Hustedt, Thurid and Wonka, Arndt and Blauberger, Michael and T{\"o}ller, Annette Elisabeth and Reiter, Renate}, publisher = {Springer VS}, address = {Wiesbaden}, isbn = {Print: 978-3-658-04690-3 / Online: 978-3-658-04691-0}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-658-04691-0}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {143 -- 207}, language = {de} } @incollection{Hustedt, author = {Hustedt, Thurid}, title = {Kontakt durch Kontrakt? Ministerien und Agencies in D{\"a}nemark}, series = {Agencies in Westeuropa}, booktitle = {Agencies in Westeuropa}, editor = {Werner, Jann and D{\"o}hler, Marian}, publisher = {VS Publisher for Social Sciences}, isbn = {Print: 978-3-531-15422-0 / Online: 978-3-531-90560-0}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-531-90560-0_4}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {100 -- 137}, abstract = {Agencification in D{\"a}nemark" ist Thema vorliegenden Aufsatzes und soll eine neuere Entwicklung in der d{\"a}nischen Zentral Verwaltung in den Mittelpunkt r{\"u}cken.}, language = {de} } @incollection{HundehegeHustedt, author = {Hundehege, Anna and Hustedt, Thurid}, title = {On a Wild Goose Chase? The (Core) Executive in Germany}, series = {Core Executives in a Comparative Perspective. Governing in Complex Times}, booktitle = {Core Executives in a Comparative Perspective. Governing in Complex Times}, editor = {Kolltveit, Kristoffer and Shaw, Richard}, publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan}, address = {Cham}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-94503-9_7}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {165 -- 187}, abstract = {Searching for the centre of power in the German political system can be a cumbersome endeavour due to the strong separation of powers rooted in German history. Considering both formal and informal institutions, this chapter analyses the current state of the core executive in Germany at the end of the 'era Merkel'. It outlines the German institutional setting with the role of the chancellor and the chancellery, defines main characteristics of politico-administrative relations and mechanisms of government coordination and discusses changes in the distribution of power related to recent developments of crisis management, Europeanisation and summitry, and personalisation and mediatisation. The analysis shows that the steering capacity of the German core executive is institutionally limited due to the strong coordination requirements stemming from administrative federalism, coalition governments and the strong departmental principle. Accordingly, the German core executive is no strong centre of power despite the international developments that have contributed to centralisation in many countries. The German core executive remains remarkably stable in formal terms and in international comparison despite some short-term power shifts in reaction to a changing environment.}, language = {en} } @incollection{BrindeHustedtHoulbergSalomonsen, author = {Brinde, Erik and Hustedt, Thurid and Houlberg Salomonsen, Heidi}, title = {The Swedish Executive: Centralising from Afar}, series = {Core Executives in a Comparative Perspective. Governing in Complex Times}, booktitle = {Core Executives in a Comparative Perspective. Governing in Complex Times}, editor = {Kolltveit, Kristoffer and Shaw, Richard}, publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan}, address = {Cham}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-94503-9_9}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {211 -- 233}, abstract = {With its constitutional separation of power between the executive and administration, over the years Sweden has frequently been held up as a shining example of modern state governance. However, recent decades of internationalising politics, EU membership and growing public-sector complexities have placed greater demands on the Swedish executive. In recent years, the established governance system has changed in several respects. First, the previously highly decentralised system has become more centralised and central-local relations remain tense. Second, at the central level, the government has sought to increase control through politicisation. Third, Swedish pandemic policy highlighted the promises and pitfalls of 'Swedish dualism'. And fourth, government communication has become ever more mediatised. In consequence, the chapter concludes that what from the outside looks like an exemplar of meritocratic democracy is rather a tactically flexible realpolitik built on interpretive ambiguities in the constitution—providing the Swedish executive with much-needed responsiveness in times of significant change, but also the veil for greater centralisation and control from afar.}, language = {en} } @incollection{Hustedt, author = {Hustedt, Thurid}, title = {Chapter 15: The Continental tradition of ministerial advice: no institutional home for ministerial advisers?}, series = {Handbook on Ministerial and Political Advisers}, booktitle = {Handbook on Ministerial and Political Advisers}, editor = {Shaw, Richard}, publisher = {Edward Elgar Publishing}, address = {Cheltenham, UK}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800886582.00025}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {221 -- 231}, abstract = {The chapter examines ministerial advisory structures in Austria, Germany, and the Netherlands and discusses if and how their emergence and roles are linked to the Continental administrative tradition - one which emphasises the rule of law, and a procedural orientation within and political responsiveness of the standing bureaucracy. The chapter reviews the state of the research on ministerial advisers in the three countries and finds various similarities. In all three contexts ministerial advisory positions have emerged: however, they are less formalised and have received less attention than their counterparts in other parts of the world in recent years.}, language = {en} } @incollection{BachHustedt, author = {Bach, Tobias and Hustedt, Thurid}, title = {Chapter 23: Policy-making in the executive triangle: a comparative perspective on ministers, advisers, and civil servants}, series = {Handbook on Ministerial and Political Advisers}, booktitle = {Handbook on Ministerial and Political Advisers}, editor = {Shaw, Richard}, publisher = {Edward Elgar Publishing}, address = {Cheltenham, UK}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800886582.00034}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {338 -- 351}, abstract = {This chapter seeks to bridge existing research on the politicisation of top civil servants and the roles of ministerial advisers by proposing a new conceptual approach for the comparative analysis of executive policy-making. We conceive of the executive triangle as a set of interdependent relationships between ministers, civil servants, and advisers. Those relationships may take different forms, depending on the distinct tasks performed by each actor and their roles in policy-making, which define mutual expectations. Thus understood, the executive triangle is an institution performing particular functions in policy-making (such as assessing policy alternatives, anticipating political support, and coordinating with other actors both inside and outside government). Those functions are performed by actors within the triangle and reflected in their roles and their direct and indirect relationships. The chapter conceptually explores such a system-perspective on the executive triangle; sketches analytical dimensions for understanding similarities and differences of executive triangles across contexts; provides empirical illustrations of variations of the executive triangle in Europe; and develops a research agenda using this concept to better understand the roles of ministers, ministerial advisers, and top civil servants in executive policy-making in a comparative perspective.}, language = {en} } @article{SalomonsenFlindersHustedt, author = {Salomonsen, Heidi Houlberg and Flinders, Matthew and Hustedt, Thurid}, title = {A comparative analysis of senior civil servants' involvement in media management}, series = {Policy \& Politics}, volume = {53}, journal = {Policy \& Politics}, number = {1}, publisher = {Bristol University Press}, issn = {0305-5736}, doi = {10.1332/03055736y2024d000000037}, pages = {109 -- 128}, abstract = {This article offers results of a comparative case study into how pressures from the media translate into the involvement of senior civil servants (SCSs) in media management and how this is reflected in differentiated ways in politico-administrative relationships. It offers tentative explanations for these differences through the lens of 'public service bargains'. Based upon a qualitative analysis of documents and 62 interviews with SCSs and advisers in Denmark, Sweden and the UK, the research found that: (i) media management, in some countries, generates an extension and an amplification of the normative expectations towards SCSs' involvement in media management; (ii) this is accompanied by a revitalisation of the reflections from SCSs to balance their responsiveness to the minister with anonymity and neutrality when involved in media management; (iii) an extensive formal politicisation seems to curb pressures on SCSs' anonymity and neutrality and their involvement in media management. These findings improve our knowledge of SCSs' involvement in media management by raising crucial questions about the political neutrality of administrators, tendencies towards politicised governance and (more) interventionist political staffers - amid intensified pressures from the media on governments.}, language = {en} } @incollection{Hustedt, author = {Hustedt, Thurid}, title = {Die Verwaltungssysteme}, series = {Nordeuropa: Handbuch f{\"u}r Wissenschaft und Studium}, booktitle = {Nordeuropa: Handbuch f{\"u}r Wissenschaft und Studium}, editor = {Henningsen, Bernd}, publisher = {Nomos}, address = {Baden-Baden}, isbn = {978-3-8487-8699-2}, doi = {10.5771/9783748930914-253}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {253 -- 261}, language = {de} } @incollection{HustedtRadtke, author = {Hustedt, Thurid and Radtke, Ina}, title = {Coordination and Policy Implementation}, series = {Handbook of Public Policy Implementation}, booktitle = {Handbook of Public Policy Implementation}, editor = {Sager, Fritz and Mavrot, C{\´e}line and Keiser, Lael}, publisher = {Edward Elgar}, isbn = {9781800885899}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {429 -- 436}, language = {en} } @incollection{Hustedt, author = {Hustedt, Thurid}, title = {Variations of policy advisory systems: taking stock}, series = {Handbook of Policy Advice}, booktitle = {Handbook of Policy Advice}, editor = {Howlett, Michael and Mukherjee, Ishani}, publisher = {Edward Elgar Publishing Limited}, address = {Cheltenham, UK \& Northampton, USA}, isbn = {9781035318070}, doi = {10.4337/9781035318087}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {600 -- 608}, language = {en} } @incollection{VeitHustedtBach, author = {Veit, Sylvia and Hustedt, Thurid and Bach, Tobias}, title = {Dynamics Of Change In Internal Policy Advisory Systems: The hybridization of advisory capacities in Germany}, series = {The Routledge Handbook Of Policy Advisory Systems}, booktitle = {The Routledge Handbook Of Policy Advisory Systems}, editor = {Capano, Giliberto and Craft, Jonathan and Howlett, Michael}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {Abingdon and New York}, isbn = {978-1-032-73745-4}, doi = {10.4324/9781003465720}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {458 -- 475}, language = {en} } @incollection{Hustedt, author = {Hustedt, Thurid}, title = {Moving Beyond Westminster: Expansion and Comparison in the Study of National Policy Advisory Systems}, series = {The Routledge Handbook Of Policy Advisory Systems}, booktitle = {The Routledge Handbook Of Policy Advisory Systems}, editor = {Capano, Giliberto and Craft, Jonathan and Howlett, Michael}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {Abingdon and New York}, isbn = {9781032737454}, publisher = {Hertie School}, pages = {123 -- 134}, language = {en} }