TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kuhlmann, Sabine
A1  - Franzke, Jochen
T1  - Multi-level responses to COVID-19
BT  - crisis coordination in Germany from an intergovernmental perspective
JF  - Local government studies
N2  - This article is aimed at analysing local and intergovernmental responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany during the ‘first wave’ of the pandemic. It will answer the question of how the intergovernmental system in Germany responded to the crisis and to what extent the pandemic has changed patterns of multi-level governance (MLG). The article argues that the coordination of pandemic management in Germany shifted between two ideal types of multi-level governance. While in the first phase of the pandemic the territorially defined multi-level system with the sub-national and local authorities as key actors of crisis management was predominant, in the second phase a more functional orientation with increased vertical coordination gained in importance. Later on, more reliance was given again on local decision-making. Based on this analysis, we will draw some preliminary conclusions on how effective MLG in Germany has been for coordinating pandemic management and point out the shortcomings.
KW  - intergovernmental relations
KW  - crisis
KW  - covid-19
KW  - federalism
KW  - coordination
KW  - multi-level governance
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2021.1904398
SN  - 0300-3930
SN  - 1743-9388
VL  - 48
IS  - 2
SP  - 312
EP  - 334
PB  - Taylor & Francis
CY  - London
ER  -