@article{KuhlmannHeuberger2021,
  author    = {Kuhlmann, Sabine and Heuberger, Moritz},
  title     = {Digital transformation going local},
  series = {Public money \& management},
  volume    = {43},
  journal   = {Public money \& management},
  number    = {2},
  publisher = {Taylor \& Francis},
  address   = {Abingdon},
  issn      = {0954-0962},
  doi       = {10.1080/09540962.2021.1939584},
  pages     = {147 -- 155},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {Digital government constitutes the most important trend of post-NPM reforms at the local level. Based on the results of a research project on local one-stop shops, this article analyses the current state of digitalization in German local authorities. The authors explain the hurdles of implementation as well as the impact on staff members and citizens, providing explanations and revealing general interrelations between institutional changes, impacts, and context factors of digital transformation.},
  language  = {en}
}
@incollection{Kuhlmann2023,
  author    = {Kuhlmann, Sabine},
  title     = {From Weberian bureaucracy to digital government?},
  series = {Handbook of public administration reform},
  booktitle = {Handbook of public administration reform},
  editor    = {Goldfinch, Shaun F.},
  publisher = {Edward Elgar Publishing},
  address   = {Cheltenham, UK},
  isbn      = {978-1-80037-674-8},
  doi       = {10.4337/9781800376748.00016},
  pages     = {207 -- 226},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {Over the past decades, the traditional profile of the German administrative system has significantly been reshaped and remoulded through reforms and transformations. Manifold modernization efforts have been undertaken to adjust administrative structures and procedures to increasing challenges and pressures. In this chapter, the attempt is made to outline major institutional reform paths in Germany from Weberian bureaucracy to most recent reforms towards a digital transformation of public administration. We will show to what extent the German administrative system has moved away from the classical Weberian bureaucracy to a hybrid system where elements of the 'old' model and new reform paradigms such as the NPM and digital government are hybridized, labelled the Neo Weberian State. The question will be addressed as to what extent this shift has taken shape and which hurdles and path-dependencies can be identified to explain partial persistence and continuity over time.},
  language  = {en}
}
@incollection{BogumilKuhlmann2020,
  author    = {Bogumil, J{\"o}rg and Kuhlmann, Sabine},
  title     = {Territorial administration in Germany},
  series = {Prefects, governors and commissioners : territorial representatives of the state in Europe},
  booktitle = {Prefects, governors and commissioners : territorial representatives of the state in Europe},
  editor    = {Tanguy, Gildas and Eymeri-Douzans, Jean-Michel},
  publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan},
  address   = {Cham},
  isbn      = {978-3-030-59395-7},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-3-030-59396-4_15},
  pages     = {327 -- 352},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {This chapter outlines the organization and allocation of functions at the meso-level of government in Germany (states/L{\"a}nder administrations). Furthermore, we shed light on the carriers and qualification profiles of the top bureaucrats in meso-level administrations. These high-rank territorial administrators/executives—state appointed heads of administrative districts (Regierungspr{\"a}sidenten) on the one hand, elected heads of county administrations (Landr{\"a}te) on the other hand—can be regarded as the German 'equivalents' of the prefects in countries with a Napoleonic administrative tradition. Finally, we analyse major reforms that have led to (at times, profound) transformations in territorial administrations, raising the question of to what extent alternative models of territorial bundling and coordination functions are sound and sustainable.},
  language  = {en}
}
@book{KuhlmannFranzkeDumasetal.2023,
  author    = {Kuhlmann, Sabine and Franzke, Jochen and Dumas, Beno{\^i}t Paul and Heuberger, Moritz},
  title     = {Regierungs- und Verwaltungshandeln in der Coronakrise},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  isbn      = {978-3-86956-553-8},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-56646},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-566469},
  publisher      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {145},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {Die Coronapandemie hat die zentrale Rolle von Staat und Verwaltung f{\"u}r die Krisenbew{\"a}ltigung deutlich gemacht sowie ins Zentrum wissenschaftlicher und {\"o}ffentlicher Aufmerksamkeit ger{\"u}ckt. Das intergouvernementale Pandemiemanagement, das Zusammenwirken verschiedener Politik- und Verwaltungsebenen im f{\"o}deralen Staat und die Einbringung wissenschaftlicher Expertise haben sich in der Pandemie als entscheidende institutionelle Stellschrauben erwiesen. Zugleich sind erhebliche Schwachstellen und Engp{\"a}sse zu Tage getreten, die teilweise zu institutioneller {\"U}berforderung, Reibungsverlusten, Koordinationsschw{\"a}chen oder gar Institutionenversagen gef{\"u}hrt haben. Beklagt wurden zudem Maßnahmenpakete und Entscheidungsoutputs, die hinsichtlich ihrer Evidenz- und Wissensbasis teils umstritten waren und in ihrem Zustandekommen hinreichende Legitimation, Zurechenbarkeit, Nachvollziehbarkeit und Transparenz vermissen ließen. Der seit M{\"a}rz 2020 andauernde Krisenzustand hat einen neuartigen, vom bisherigen Normalzustand stark abweichenden Modus des Regierens und des Verwaltungsmanagements in Deutschland geschaffen. In diesem Bereich herrscht weiterhin ein erheblicher politik- und verwaltungswissenschaftlicher Forschungsbedarf, zu dessen Befriedigung diese Studie beitragen soll.},
  language  = {de}
}
@incollection{Kuhlmann2016,
  author    = {Kuhlmann, Sabine},
  title     = {Local Government in Germany},
  series = {Comparative Studies on Vertical Administration Reforms in China and Germany (Speyerer Forschungsberichte ; 285)},
  booktitle = {Comparative Studies on Vertical Administration Reforms in China and Germany (Speyerer Forschungsberichte ; 285)},
  editor    = {Wang, Yukai and F{\"a}rber, Gisela},
  publisher = {Deutsches Forschungsinstitut f{\"u}r {\"o}ffentliche Verwaltung},
  address   = {Speyer},
  organization    = {Deutsches Forschungsinstitut f{\"u}r {\"o}ffentliche Verwaltung Speyer},
  isbn      = {978-3-941738-23-2},
  publisher      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {51 -- 67},
  year      = {2016},
  language  = {en}
}