TY - CHAP A1 - Hustedt, Thurid A1 - Salomonsen, Heidi Houlberg ED - Byrkjeflot, Haldor ED - Engelstad, Fredrick T1 - From Neutral Competence to Competent Neutrality? Revisiting Neutral Competence as the Core Normative Foundation of the Western Bureaucracy BT - Comparative Perspectives T2 - Bureaucracy in Transition Y1 - 2018 SN - 9781787432840 SP - 69 EP - 88 PB - Emerald CY - Bingley ET - Comparative Social Research (Yearbook Series) 33 (2018) ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hustedt, Thurid ED - Veit, Sylvia ED - Reichard, Christoph ED - Wewer, Göttrik T1 - Verwaltung und der Umgang mit Krisen und Katastrophen T2 - Handbuch zur Verwaltungsreform Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-3-658-21563-7 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-21571-2_17-1 PB - Springer VS CY - Wiesbaden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hustedt, Thurid T1 - Studying policy advisory systems: beyond the Westminster-bias? JF - Policy Studies N2 - Research on policy advisory systems has rapidly proliferated over the last decade and now focuses on advisory system change dynamics. Yet, empirical studies predominantly focus on the study of policy advisory systems in Westminster systems and it is those studies upon which theorization relies. This paper argues that this Westminster-prevalence resulted in a Westminster-bias of our understanding of policy advisory systems and directs attention to more abstract or general analytical dimensions that may be relevant for the comparative study of policy advisory systems and research on advice systems in transitional and developing countries. Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2018.1557627 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hustedt, Thurid A1 - Radtke, Ina ED - Bogumil, Jörg ED - Kuhlmann, Sabine ED - Proeller, Isabella T1 - Die Flüchtlingskrise als Herausforderung für die interministerielle Koordination in den Bundesländern – das Fallbeispiel Rheinland-Pfalz T2 - Verwaltungshandeln in der Flüchtlingskrise Y1 - 2019 SN - 9783848755271 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845296500-49 SP - 49 EP - 64 PB - Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft CY - Baden-Baden ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hustedt, Thurid A1 - Trein, Phillipp ED - Klenk, Tanja ED - Nullmeier, Frank ED - Wewer, Göttrik T1 - Koordination und Integration im E-Government T2 - Handbuch Digitalisierung in Staat und Verwaltung N2 - Der föderale Staatsaufbau und die konsensorientierten Institutionen des deutschen Regierungssystems schaffen einen hohen Koordinationsbedarf und erschweren die Integration neuer Technologien und Politiken in bestehende Strukturen. Dies zeigt sich auch beim E-Government, also der Digitalisierung der Verwaltung. Besonders die föderale Organisation von Verwaltungszuständigkeiten verkompliziert die Koordination beim E-Government, während beispielsweise im Gesundheitsbereich die konsensorientierten Institutionen die Einführung technischer Innovationen verlangsamen. Gewisse Fortschritte Deutschlands sind im internationalen Vergleich gleichwohl zu erkennen. Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-3-658-23669-4 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-23669-4_53-1 PB - Springer VS CY - Wiesbaden ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hustedt, Thurid A1 - Randma-Liiv, Tiina A1 - Savi, Riin ED - Bouckaert, Geert ED - Jann, Werner T1 - Public Administration and Disciplines T2 - European Perspectives for Public Administration: The Way Forward N2 - The public sector in our society has over the past two decades undergone substantial changes, as has the academic field studying Public Administration (PA). In the next twenty years major shifts are further expected to occur in the way futures are anticipated and different cultures are integrated. Practice will be handled in a relevant way, and more disciplines will be engaging in the field of Public Administration. The prominent scholars contributing to this book put forward research strategies and focus on priorities in the field of Public Administration. The volume will also give guidance on how to redesign teaching programmes in the field. This book will provide useful insights to compare and contrast European PA with PA in Europe, and with developments in other parts of the world. Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-94-6166-307-8 U6 - https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvv417th.11 SP - 129 EP - 146 PB - Leuven University Press CY - Leuven ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rackwitz, Maike A1 - Hustedt, Thurid A1 - Hammerschmid, Gerhard T1 - Digital transformation: From hierarchy to network-based collaboration? The case of the German “Online Access Act”. JF - dms – der moderne staat – Zeitschrift für Public Policy, Recht und Management N2 - To unlock the full potential of ICT-related public sector innovation and digital transformation, governments must embrace collaborative working structures and leadership, is commonly argued. However, little is known about the dynamics of such collaborations in contexts of hierarchy, silo cultures, and procedural accountability. A widely voiced but empirically insufficiently substantiated claim is that bringing cross-cutting digital endeavours forward requires more lateral, network-based approaches to governance beyond traditional Weberian ideals. We test this claim by shedding light on three distinct challenges (complexity, risk, and power imbalance) encountered when implementing the specific collaborative case of the German Online Access Act (OAA) and by examining how they have been addressed in institutional design and leadership. Our analysis, which combines desk research and semi-structured expert interviews, reveals that flexible, horizontal approaches are on the rise. Taking a closer look, however, vertical coordination continues to serve as complementary means to problem-solving capability. KW - Digitalisation, intergovernmental collaboration, Online Access Act, leadership, institutional design Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3224/dms.v14i1.05 VL - 14 IS - 1 SP - 101 EP - 120 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Hammerschmid, Gerhard A1 - Hustedt, Thurid T1 - Querwechsler als Impulsgeber für die Verwaltung von morgen Y1 - 2020 UR - https://www.hertie-school.org/fileadmin/2_Research/2_Research_directory/Research_Centres/Centre_for_Digital_Governance/Papers/Studie_Querwechsler_Hammerschmid_Hustedt_2020.pdf ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Trein, Phillip A1 - Biesbroek, Robbert A1 - Bolognesi, Thomas A1 - Cejudo, Guillermo M. A1 - Duffy, Robert A1 - Hustedt, Thurid A1 - Meyer, Iris T1 - Policy Coordination and Integration: A Research Agenda JF - Public Administration Review N2 - Coordinating and integrating different policies and public sector organizations is a major challenge for practitioners and a continuing topic of interest for researchers. We argue that existing research on this topic needs reorientation to provide better insights for practice and theory of policymaking as well as policy implementation. We offer four suggestions on how future research could advance: (1) combining existing conceptual and epistemological approaches more systematically; (2) complementing case studies and surveys with large-N analyses and novel research tools and methods; (3) more systematic analysis of the causal mechanisms in policy coordination and integration; (4) more thorough study of the real-world impact of policy coordination and integration. Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13180 SN - 1540-6210 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hustedt, Thurid A1 - Seyfried, Markus T1 - Inside the EU Commission: Evidence on the perceived relevance of the Secretariat General in Climate Policy-Making JF - JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies N2 - This article studies the perception of the EU Commission's Secretariat General in policy‐making. Recently, research on EU institutions devotes increasing attention to analyzing structures and procedures of decision‐making in EU institutions, most notably the EU Commission. Conventionally, the EU Commission is portrayed as a fragmented organization, divided along the lines of staff nationality, sectoral responsibilities and cabinets and General Directorates (DGs). The Secretariat General has long been viewed a weak actor that is hardly able or motivated to steer internal decision‐making. However, recent research indicates a changing role of the Secretariat General as a pro‐active broker and last arbiter. This article studies how the Secretariat General is perceived by the DGs in policy coordination and argues that this perception depends on the pattern of political authority, bureaucratic roles and the relevance and the alternatives prevailing in the policy field. The article is based on data from a survey among Commission officials. KW - EU Commission, Secretariat General, co‐ordination, centralization, climate policies Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.12605 SN - 1468-5965 VL - 56 IS - 2 SP - 368 EP - 384 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hustedt, Thurid A1 - Danken, Thomas T1 - Institutional logics in inter-departmental coordination: Why actors agree on a joint coordination output. JF - Public Administration N2 - By investigating two German inter-departmental committees, this article shows that the policy output of these coordination bodies depends on the specific institutional logic evoked throughout the coordination process. While in one of the groups a policy logic prevailed and a joint coordination output was achieved, the other was dominated by a political logic and proved unable to achieve agreement. The article contributes to research on government coordination by showing that actor orientations are crucial for explaining inter-organizational coordination. The results direct attention to the behavioural implications of coordination structures. Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12331 SN - 1467-9299 VL - 95 IS - 3 SP - 730 EP - 743 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hustedt, Thurid A1 - Salomonsen, Heidi Houlberg T1 - Politikberatung durch die Ministerialverwaltung: Funktionale Differenzierung oder Integration unterschiedlicher Wissensformen JF - der moderne staat (dms) Y1 - 2013 SN - 9783847401179 VL - Sonderheft 1/2013 SP - 203 EP - 221 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hustedt, Thurid ED - Howlett, Michael ED - Mukherjee, Ishani T1 - Policy design and policy advisory systems T2 - Routledge Handbook of Policy Design KW - Policy sciences, policy planning, public administration Y1 - 2018 SN - 9781351252928 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351252928 SP - 201 EP - 211 PB - Routledge CY - New York/London ER - TY - JFULL A1 - Hustedt, Thurid A1 - Veit, Sylvia A1 - Hundehege, Anna T1 - Herausforderungen für den modernen Staat: Krise oder Umbruch? Symposium aus Anlass des 10-jährigen Jubiläums der Zeitschrift T2 - dms – der moderne staat N2 - Symposium aus Anlass des 10-jährigen Jubiläums der Zeitschrift „dms – der moderne staat“ und zu Ehren von Prof. Dr. Bernhard Blanke Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3224/dms.v12i1.07 VL - 12 IS - 1 SP - 145 EP - 156 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hustedt, Thurid A1 - Seyfried, Markus ED - Lederer, Markus ED - Hickmann, Thomas T1 - Challenges, triggers and initiators of climate policies and implications for policy formulation T2 - Harald Fuhr ein visionärer Grenzgänger mit Leidenschaft und Augenmaß - Festschrift für Harald Fuhr Y1 - 2020 SN - 9783848752492 SP - 169 EP - 179 PB - Nomos ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hustedt, Thurid ED - Ladner, Andreas ED - Sager, Fritz T1 - Ministerial advisory systems and politics T2 - Handbook on the Politics of Public Administration N2 - Ministerial advisors are by now established actors at the apex of ministerial departments in many countries around the globe. They advanced to close and often the most intimate advisors to government ministers and other executive politicians and are often the only actors in the ministries allowed to provide political advice. Also, they are often closely involved in the coordination of government coalition politics alongside party-political lines and coordinate between the ministry and the party headquarter. While they, in general, fulfil a much more political role (compared to civil servants), their role and working conditions vary. The chapter looks into different types of ministerial advisory systems, their institutionalization, working dynamics and in particular their role as political advisors. And even though ministerial advisors have received considerable attention by public administration scholars for around two decades, their position has not been accounted for in general public administration or policy process theory. The chapter revises the current literature on the emergence and role of advisors in theoretical, conceptual and empirical regards to provide a state-of-the-art overview of variation in ministerial advisory systems. KW - Ministerial advisers KW - Policy advice KW - Policy advisory systems KW - Ministerial cabinets KW - Special advisers Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839109447.00015 SP - 93 EP - 101 PB - Edward Elgar Publishing CY - Cheltenham ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hustedt, Thurid A1 - Salomonsen, Heidi H. T1 - Political Control of Coordination? The Roles of Ministerial Advisers in Government Coordination in Den-mark and Sweden. JF - Public Administration N2 - Ministerial advisers are said to strengthen the political control of bureaucracy. Using a comparative case design, this article investigates this claim by studying the roles of ministerial advisers in government coordination in Denmark and Sweden. The article demonstrates how the roles of advisers differ in coordination: Swedish advisers directly control government coordination through hierarchical authority. The roles of advisers and bureaucrats are functionally differentiated in coordination. In contrast, Danish advisers play a more indirect role in coordination. Rather than controlling coordination, they serve to reproduce the functional politicization of the permanent bureaucracy in government coordination. The findings underline the relevance of including advisers in the future study of government coordination. The analysis is based on 48 interviews with advisers and top civil servants in Denmark and Sweden. Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12312 SN - 1467-9299 VL - 95 IS - 2 SP - 393 EP - 406 ET - Special Issue: Symposium: Ministerial advisers in executive government ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hustedt, Thurid A1 - Kolltveit, Kristoffer A1 - Salomonsen, Heidi Houlberg T1 - Ministerial advisers in executive government: Out from the dark and into the limelight. JF - Public Administration N2 - Ministers increasingly rely on advisers for support and advice. In many countries, these political aides are labelled differently. Generally, they serve as close confidants to their political masters and operate in the ‘shadowland’ between politics and bureaucracy. Scholarship has dragged the ministerial advisers out of the dark and described their background and functions. Still, the field of scholarship has a Westminster bias, is characterized by single case studies, and remains under‐theorized. The lack of comparative focus and theoretical underpinnings can be explained by the complex nature of ministerial advisers. This introductory article suggests a definition for ministerial advisers and reviews the extant literature on these important actors. The main argument is that the extent and relevance of ministerial advisers in executive government merits integration into mainstream public administration and political science theory and research. Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12329 SN - 1467-9299 VL - 95 IS - 2 SP - 299 EP - 311 ET - Special Issue: Symposium: Ministerial advisers in executive government ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Veit, Sylvia A1 - Hustedt, Thurid A1 - Bach, Tobias T1 - Dynamics of change in internal policy advisory systems: the hybridization of advisory capacities in Germany JF - Policy Sciences N2 - Recent scholarship on advisory systems has focussed on the externalization of advisory capacities and sectoral dynamics of change, whereas changes of internal policy advisory systems have not yet been approached systematically. This article proposes an analytical concept for exploring change dynamics in internal policy advisory systems by means of three logics for assessing policy advice (political salience, credibility and representativeness). The approach is illustrated by analysing changes within the internal policy advisory system of the German federal government (1990–2015). The analysis relies on three original datasets on ministerial departments, research agencies and governmental advisory bodies. We find that the internal advisory system of the German federal government is characterized by a differentiated hybridization of advisory logics, which has changed the nature of policy advice. Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-016-9266-9 SN - 0032-2687 (print), 1573-0891 (online) VL - 50 IS - 1 SP - 85 EP - 103 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Radtke, Ina A1 - Hustedt, Thurid A1 - Klinnert, Anne T1 - Inter-Ministerial Working Groups as a Panacea for Coordination Problems? JF - der moderne staat (dms) N2 - Based on a comparative design, the article shows that inter-ministerial working groups do not generally represent panaceas for coordination problems as is usually assumed by the literature. The analysis compares three inter-ministerial working groups in the German federal government. The article asks which factors influence the mode of coordination in inter-ministerial working groups. The analysis reveals that it is affected by the organisational structure of these bodies and the negotiation mode for solving conflict among its members, which leads to variance in its capacity to establish positive coordination. Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3224/dms.v9i1.23641 SN - 1865-7192 VL - 9 IS - 1 SP - 65 EP - 81 ER - 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 -