Multi-level responses to COVID-19
- 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.
Author details: | Sabine KuhlmannORCiDGND, Jochen FranzkeORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2021.1904398 |
ISSN: | 0300-3930 |
ISSN: | 1743-9388 |
Title of parent work (English): | Local government studies |
Subtitle (English): | crisis coordination in Germany from an intergovernmental perspective |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Place of publishing: | London |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2022/03/31 |
Publication year: | 2022 |
Release date: | 2024/01/24 |
Tag: | coordination; covid-19; crisis; federalism; intergovernmental relations; multi-level governance |
Volume: | 48 |
Issue: | 2 |
Number of pages: | 23 |
First page: | 312 |
Last Page: | 334 |
Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Sozialwissenschaften / Fachgruppe Politik- & Verwaltungswissenschaft |
DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 34 Recht / 340 Recht |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Open Access / Hybrid Open-Access |
License (German): | CC-BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell, keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |