TY - JOUR A1 - Hustedt, Thurid A1 - Seyfried, Markus T1 - Co-ordination across internal organisational boundaries: How the EU Commission co-ordinates climate policies. JF - Journal of European Public Policy N2 - 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. KW - Bureaucratic organization, climate change policy, co-ordination, Directorate General, EU policy-making, European Commission Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2015.1074605 VL - 23 IS - 6 SP - 888 EP - 905 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hustedt, Thurid T1 - Negative Koordination in der Klimapolitik: Die Interministerielle Arbeitsgruppe Anpassungsstrategie JF - der moderne staat (dms) N2 - Der Artikel untersucht interministerielle Koordination am Beispiel der Interministeriellen Arbeitsgruppe Anpassungsstrategie (IMA) und nimmt mit der Klimaanpassungspolitik eine Querschnittspolitik mit einem ausgeprägten Koordinationsbedarf in den Blick. Der Beitrag zeigt, dass die Arbeitsweise der IMA überwiegend den Merkmalen negativer Koordination entspricht, da das federführende Ressort eine inhaltlich gestaltende Rolle wahrnimmt, Informationen überwiegend gesammelt, Konsens per Veto hergestellt wird und der durch die IMA erarbeitete „Aktionsplan Anpassung“ (APA) weder eine ressortübergreifende Zielvorstellung noch ressortübergreifende Maßnahmen repräsentiert. Vielmehr sind der Koordinationsprozess sowie der APA durch selektive Perzeptionen sowie singuläre Ressortinteressen geprägt. Diese zeigen sich in einer auf den Schutz des eigenen Zuständigkeitsbereichs 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. KW - Koordination, Interministerielle Arbeitsgruppe, Klimaanpassungspolitik Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3224/dms.v7i2.17319 SN - 1865-7192 VL - 7 IS - 2 SP - 311 EP - 330 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hustedt, Thurid A1 - Salomonsen, Heidi Houlberg T1 - Ensuring political responsiveness: Politicization mechanisms in ministerial bureaucracies. JF - International Review of Administrative Sciences N2 - 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. KW - central administration, ministers and civil servants, political advisers, political responsiveness, politicization, public administration Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0020852314533449 SN - 0020-8523 (print), 1461-7226 (online) VL - 80 IS - 4 SP - 746 EP - 765 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hustedt, Thurid T1 - Analyzing Policy Advice: The Case of Climate Policy in Germany JF - Central European Journal of Public Policy N2 - 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. Y1 - 2013 SN - 1802-4866 VL - 7 IS - 1 SP - 88 EP - 110 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Hustedt, Thurid T1 - Ministerialverwaltung im Wandel BT - Struktur und Rolle der Leitungsbereiche im deutsch-dänischen Vergleich N2 - Anknüpfend an neuere Forschungsergebnisse zum Verhältnis von Politik und Ministerialverwaltung wird untersucht, wie und warum sich Struktur und Rolle der Leitungsbereiche deutscher und dänischer Ministerien seit 1980 gewandelt haben. Die Studie zeigt, dass die Ministerialverwaltungen beider Länder unter einem diffusen Anpassungsdruck stehen, der selektiv auf einen Bedeutungszuwachs der Leitungsbereiche hinwirkt, aber unterschiedlich verarbeitet wird. Der länderspezifische Bedeutungszuwachs der Leitungsbereiche wird anhand unterschiedlich wirkender institutioneller Filter erklärt, die auf die jeweilige Institutionalisierung des Verhältnisses von Politik und Verwaltung zurückzuführen sind. Die Untersuchung bietet einen fundierten empirischen Einblick in den Wandel von Organisation und Rollenwahrnehmung der Leitungsbereiche und stößt damit in eine Lücke der vergleichenden Verwaltungsforschung. Y1 - 2013 SN - 9783848707881 (print), 9783845250182 (online) U6 - https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845250182 PB - Nomos ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hustedt, Thurid ED - Shaw, Richard ED - Eichbaum, Chris T1 - Germany: Smooth and silent emergence of advisory roles T2 - Ministers, Minders and Mandarins: An International Study of Relationships at the Executive Summit of Parliamentary Democracies N2 - 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. Y1 - 2018 SN - 9781786431684 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786431691.00010 SP - 72 EP - 90 PB - Edward Elgar CY - London ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hustedt, Thurid A1 - Radtke, Ina ED - Franzke, Jochen ED - Koszel, Bogdan ED - Sakson, Andrzej T1 - In die Ecke Besen, Besen...Die Einsetzung von Flüchtlingskoordinatoren in Deutschland – neutrale Meister in Zeiten der Krise? T2 - Migrationspolitik in Deutschland und Polen Y1 - 2017 SN - 9783945878644 SP - 77 EP - 102 PB - WeltTrends CY - Potsdam ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hustedt, Thurid ED - Döhler, Marian ED - Franzke, Jochen ED - Wegrich, Kai T1 - Der Rutschbahneffekt Ministerielle Leitungsbereiche zwischen Bonn und Berlin T2 - Der gut organisierte Staat: Festschrift für Werner Jann zum 65. Geburtstag. Y1 - 2015 SN - ISBN print: 978-3-8487-2062-0, ISBN online: 978-3-8452-6270-3 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845262703-188 SP - 188 EP - 211 CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hustedt, Thurid ED - Per, Lægreid ED - Randma-Liiv, Tiina ED - Lise H., Rykkja ED - Sarapuu, Külli T1 - Inter-Ministerial Coordination: A Working Group in Climate Policy. T2 - Organizing for Coordination in the Public Sector. Practices and Lessons from 12 European Countries. N2 - 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. KW - Climate Policy Departmental Principle Implementation Plan Adaptation Policy Mitigation Policy Y1 - 2014 SN - 9781349675784 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137359636_13 SP - 153 EP - 162 PB - Palgrave Macmillan CY - London ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hustedt, Thurid ED - Lindberg, Henrik T1 - Institutions and forms of knowledge: Organizing policy advice. T2 - Knowledge and Policy Change Y1 - 2013 SN - 9781443842327 SP - 42 EP - 59 PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing CY - Cambridge ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Fleischer, Julia A1 - Hustedt, Thurid ED - Lodge, Martin ED - Wegrich, Kai T1 - Sectoral Dynamics In Executive Politics: Coordinating Climate Policy in Germany. T2 - Executive Politics in Times of Crisis N2 - 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). Y1 - 2012 SN - 9781137010261 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137010261_14 SP - 264 EP - 283 PB - Palgrave Macmillan CY - London ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hustedt, Thurid ED - Hustedt, Thurid ED - Wonka, Arndt ED - Blauberger, Michael ED - Töller, Annette Elisabeth ED - Reiter, Renate T1 - Agenturen T2 - Verwaltungsstrukturen in der Europäischen Union Y1 - 2014 SN - Print: 978-3-658-04690-3 / Online: 978-3-658-04691-0 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-04691-0 SP - 143 EP - 207 PB - Springer VS CY - Wiesbaden ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hustedt, Thurid ED - Werner, Jann ED - Döhler, Marian T1 - Kontakt durch Kontrakt? Ministerien und Agencies in Dänemark T2 - Agencies in Westeuropa N2 - Agencification in Dänemark“ ist Thema vorliegenden Aufsatzes und soll eine neuere Entwicklung in der dänischen Zentral Verwaltung in den Mittelpunkt rücken. Y1 - 2007 SN - Print: 978-3-531-15422-0 / Online: 978-3-531-90560-0 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-90560-0_4 SP - 100 EP - 137 PB - VS Publisher for Social Sciences ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hundehege, Anna A1 - Hustedt, Thurid ED - Kolltveit, Kristoffer ED - Shaw, Richard T1 - On a Wild Goose Chase? The (Core) Executive in Germany T2 - Core Executives in a Comparative Perspective. Governing in Complex Times N2 - 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. Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94503-9_7 SP - 165 EP - 187 PB - Palgrave Macmillan CY - Cham ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Brinde, Erik A1 - Hustedt, Thurid A1 - Houlberg Salomonsen, Heidi ED - Kolltveit, Kristoffer ED - Shaw, Richard T1 - The Swedish Executive: Centralising from Afar T2 - Core Executives in a Comparative Perspective. Governing in Complex Times N2 - 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. Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94503-9_9 SP - 211 EP - 233 PB - Palgrave Macmillan CY - Cham ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hustedt, Thurid ED - Shaw, Richard T1 - Chapter 15: The Continental tradition of ministerial advice: no institutional home for ministerial advisers? T2 - Handbook on Ministerial and Political Advisers N2 - 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. KW - Ministerial advisers KW - Continental tradition KW - Rechtsstaat KW - Weberian bureaucracy KW - Politicisation Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800886582.00025 SP - 221 EP - 231 PB - Edward Elgar Publishing CY - Cheltenham, UK ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Bach, Tobias A1 - Hustedt, Thurid ED - Shaw, Richard T1 - Chapter 23: Policy-making in the executive triangle: a comparative perspective on ministers, advisers, and civil servants T2 - Handbook on Ministerial and Political Advisers N2 - 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. KW - Civil servants KW - Comparative public administration KW - Executive triangle KW - Ministerial advisers KW - Policy advice KW - Politicisation Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800886582.00034 SP - 338 EP - 351 PB - Edward Elgar Publishing CY - Cheltenham, UK ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Salomonsen, Heidi Houlberg A1 - Flinders, Matthew A1 - Hustedt, Thurid T1 - A comparative analysis of senior civil servants’ involvement in media management JF - Policy & Politics N2 - 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. Y1 - 2025 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1332/03055736y2024d000000037 SN - 0305-5736 N1 - Published online 20 May 2024 VL - 53 IS - 1 SP - 109 EP - 128 PB - Bristol University Press ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hustedt, Thurid ED - Henningsen, Bernd T1 - Die Verwaltungssysteme T2 - Nordeuropa: Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium Y1 - 2023 SN - 978-3-8487-8699-2 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748930914-253 SP - 253 EP - 261 PB - Nomos CY - Baden-Baden ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hustedt, Thurid A1 - Radtke, Ina ED - Sager, Fritz ED - Mavrot, Céline ED - Keiser, Lael T1 - Coordination and Policy Implementation T2 - Handbook of Public Policy Implementation Y1 - 2024 UR - https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/handbook-of-public-policy-implementation-9781800885899.html SN - 9781800885899 SP - 429 EP - 436 PB - Edward Elgar ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hustedt, Thurid ED - Howlett, Michael ED - Mukherjee, Ishani T1 - Variations of policy advisory systems: taking stock T2 - Handbook of Policy Advice Y1 - 2025 SN - 9781035318070 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035318087 SP - 600 EP - 608 PB - Edward Elgar Publishing Limited CY - Cheltenham, UK & Northampton, USA ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Veit, Sylvia A1 - Hustedt, Thurid A1 - Bach, Tobias ED - Capano, Giliberto ED - Craft, Jonathan ED - Howlett, Michael T1 - Dynamics Of Change In Internal Policy Advisory Systems: The hybridization of advisory capacities in Germany T2 - The Routledge Handbook Of Policy Advisory Systems Y1 - 2025 UR - https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Policy-Advisory-Systems/Capano-Craft-Howlett/p/book/9781032737454?srsltid=AfmBOoq8AGN8n5-LE0TwJvZnUE8m3Hp38_wOzU2vc6ld7o8P9bNdgcv5 SN - 978-1-032-73745-4 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003465720 SP - 458 EP - 475 PB - Routledge CY - Abingdon and New York ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hustedt, Thurid ED - Capano, Giliberto ED - Craft, Jonathan ED - Howlett, Michael T1 - Moving Beyond Westminster: Expansion and Comparison in the Study of National Policy Advisory Systems T2 - The Routledge Handbook Of Policy Advisory Systems Y1 - 2026 UR - https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Policy-Advisory-Systems/Capano-Craft-Howlett/p/book/9781032737454?srsltid=AfmBOoq8AGN8n5-LE0TwJvZnUE8m3Hp38_wOzU2vc6ld7o8P9bNdgcv5 SN - 9781032737454 SP - 123 EP - 134 PB - Routledge CY - Abingdon and New York ER -