TY - JOUR A1 - Yesilkagit, Kutsal A1 - Bezes, Philippe A1 - Fleischer, Julia T1 - What's in a name? The politics of name changes inside bureaucracy JF - Public administration N2 - In this article, we examine the effects of political change on name changes of units within central government ministries. We expect that changes regarding the policy position of a government will cause changes in the names of ministerial units. To this end we formulate hypotheses combining the politics of structural choice and theories of portfolio allocation to examine the effects of political changes at the cabinet level on the names of intra-ministerial units. We constructed a dataset containing more than 17,000 observations on name changes of ministerial units between 1980 and 2013 from the central governments of Germany, the Netherlands, and France. We regress a series of generalized estimating equations (GEE) with population averaging models for binary outcomes. Finding variations across the three political-bureaucratic systems, we overall report positive effects of governmental change and ideological positions on name changes within ministries. Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12827 SN - 0033-3298 SN - 1467-9299 VL - 100 IS - 4 SP - 1091 EP - 1106 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Oxford ER - TY - GEN A1 - Sommermann, Karl-Peter A1 - Behnke, Nathalie A1 - Kropp, Sabine A1 - Hofmann, Hans A1 - Fleischer, Julia A1 - von Knobloch, Hans-Heinrich A1 - Schimanke, Dieter A1 - Schrapper, Ludger A1 - Ruge, Kay A1 - Ritgen, Klaus A1 - Jann, Werner A1 - Veit, Sylvia A1 - Ziekow, Jan A1 - Mehde, Veith A1 - Reichard, Christoph A1 - Schröter, Eckhard A1 - Färber, Gisela A1 - Wollmann, Hellmut A1 - Kuhlmann, Sabine A1 - Bogumil, Jörg ED - Kuhlmann, Sabine ED - Proeller, Isabella ED - Schimanke, Dieter ED - Ziekow, Jan T1 - Public Administration in Germany T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe N2 - This open access book presents a topical, comprehensive and differentiated analysis of Germany’s public administration and reforms. It provides an overview on key elements of German public administration at the federal, Länder and local levels of government as well as on current reform activities of the public sector. It examines the key institutional features of German public administration; the changing relationships between public administration, society and the private sector; the administrative reforms at different levels of the federal system and numerous sectors; and new challenges and modernization approaches like digitalization, Open Government and Better Regulation. Each chapter offers a combination of descriptive information and problem-oriented analysis, presenting key topical issues in Germany which are relevant to an international readership. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe - 140 KW - Open Access KW - public administration KW - German public administration KW - federal administration KW - social security KW - institutions KW - reforms KW - governance KW - German administrative system KW - decentralisation KW - self-government KW - multilevel governance KW - Federal Constitutional Court KW - the German Constitution KW - the German federal architecture KW - European Union (EU) KW - the Basic Law KW - the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI) KW - the Länder KW - Administrative federalism Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-504637 SN - 1867-5808 IS - 140 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Radtke, Ina A1 - Fleischer, Julia T1 - The Refugee Crisis in Germany BT - New Coordination Structures to Repair Organisational Legitimacy JF - Societal Security and Crisis Management N2 - This chapter analyses the creation of novel cross-sectoral and multi-level coordination arrangements inside the German federal bureaucracy during the recent refugee crisis. We argue that the refugee crisis can be considered as an administrative crisis that challenged organisational legitimacy. Various novel coordination actors and arenas were set up in order to enhance governance capacity. Yet, all of them have been selected from a well-known pool of administrative arrangements. As a consequence, those novel coordination arrangements did not replace but rather complement pre-existing patterns of executive coordination. Hence, the recent refugee crisis exemplifies how bureaucracies effectively adapt to changes in their surroundings via limited and temporary adjustments that coexist with existing organisational arrangements. Thus, the observed changes in coordination structures contribute to repairing organisational legitimacy by increasing governance capacity. Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-3-319-92303-1 SN - 978-3-319-92302-4 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92303-1_14 SP - 265 EP - 283 PB - Palgrave Macmillan CY - Cham ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jann, Werner A1 - Fleischer, Julia T1 - Shefting discourses, steady learning and sedimentation : the German reform trajectory in the long run Y1 - 2011 SN - 978-0-415-55721-4 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Jann, Werner A1 - Bach, Tobias A1 - Fleischer, Julia A1 - Jantz, Bastian A1 - Hustedt, Thurid T1 - Opportunity and feasibility of establishing common support services for EU agencies Y1 - 2008 UR - http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/documents/dv/2009_powerpoint_agencies_/ 2009_powerpoint_agencies_en.pdf PB - Europäisches Parlament CY - Brüssel ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Jann, Werner A1 - Bach, Tobias A1 - Fleischer, Julia A1 - Hustedt, Thurid T1 - Best practice in governance of agencies : a comparative study in view of identifying best practice for governing agencies carrying out activities on behalf of the European Union Y1 - 2008 PB - Europäisches Parlament CY - Brüssel ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fleischer, Julia A1 - Wanckel, Camilla T1 - Job satisfaction and the digital transformation of the public sector BT - the mediating role of job autonomy JF - Review of Public Personnel Administration N2 - Worldwide, governments have introduced novel information and communication technologies (ICTs) for policy formulation and service delivery, radically changing the working environment of government employees. Following the debate on work stress and particularly on technostress, we argue that the use of ICTs triggers “digital overload” that decreases government employees’ job satisfaction via inhibiting their job autonomy. Contrary to prior research, we consider job autonomy as a consequence rather than a determinant of digital overload, because ICT-use accelerates work routines and interruptions and eventually diminishes employees’ freedom to decide how to work. Based on novel survey data from government employees in Germany, Italy, and Norway, our structural equation modeling (SEM) confirms a significant negative effect of digital overload on job autonomy. More importantly, job autonomy partially mediates the negative relationship between digital overload and job satisfaction, pointing to the importance of studying the micro-foundations of ICT-use in the public sector. KW - digital transformation KW - digital overload KW - job autonomy KW - job satisfaction KW - civil service survey Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0734371X221148403 SN - 0734-371X SN - 1552-759X PB - Sage CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fleischer, Julia A1 - Wanckel, Camilla T1 - Creativity in policy capacity BT - organizational and individual determinants JF - Public administration review N2 - Creativity is a crucial part of policy capacity in governments. Existing studies on creative behavior in the public sector assess employees' openness to new ideas and creative solutions, and they confirm the relevance of organizational and individual determinants for pro-creativity attitudes. Yet we lack systemic evidence on the explicit level of work-related creativity among policy officials in government organizations. At the same time, novel technologies and particularly social networking services change the working environment of policy officials radically, alter organizational features, and may also yield crucial individual effects. Our study analyses “policy creativity” of policy officials in three European governments. We demonstrate the importance of organizational and individual features, including the stress triggered by using social networking services. Our study captures officials' creativity explicitly and adds to debates on creativity and innovation in the public sector as well as the micro-level foundations of the digital transformation in the public sector. Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13676 SN - 0033-3352 SN - 1540-6210 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fleischer, Julia A1 - Seyfried, Markus T1 - Drawing from the bargaining pool: Determinants of ministerial selection in Germany JF - Party politics : an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations N2 - This article expands our current knowledge about ministerial selection in coalition governments and analyses why ministerial candidates succeed in acquiring a cabinet position after general elections. It argues that political parties bargain over potential office-holders during government-formation processes, selecting future cabinet ministers from an emerging bargaining pool'. The article draws upon a new dataset comprising all ministrable candidates discussed by political parties during eight government-formation processes in Germany between 1983 and 2009. The conditional logit regression analysis reveals that temporal dynamics, such as the day she enters the pool, have a significant effect on her success in achieving a cabinet position. Other determinants of ministerial selection discussed in the existing literature, such as party and parliamentary expertise, are less relevant for achieving ministerial office. The article concludes that scholarship on ministerial selection requires a stronger emphasis for its endogenous nature in government-formation as well as the relevance of temporal dynamics in such processes. KW - Candidates KW - Germany KW - government-formation Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068813487108 SN - 1354-0688 SN - 1460-3683 VL - 21 IS - 4 SP - 503 EP - 514 PB - Sage Publ. CY - London ER - TY - GEN A1 - Fleischer, Julia A1 - Seyfried, Markus T1 - Drawing from the bargaining pool BT - determinants of ministerial selection in Germany T2 - Party politics N2 - This article expands our current knowledge about ministerial selection in coalition governments and analyses why ministerial candidates succeed in acquiring a cabinet position after general elections. It argues that political parties bargain over potential office-holders during government-formation processes, selecting future cabinet ministers from an emerging bargaining pool'. The article draws upon a new dataset comprising all ministrable candidates discussed by political parties during eight government-formation processes in Germany between 1983 and 2009. The conditional logit regression analysis reveals that temporal dynamics, such as the day she enters the pool, have a significant effect on her success in achieving a cabinet position. Other determinants of ministerial selection discussed in the existing literature, such as party and parliamentary expertise, are less relevant for achieving ministerial office. The article concludes that scholarship on ministerial selection requires a stronger emphasis for its endogenous nature in government-formation as well as the relevance of temporal dynamics in such processes. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe - 87 KW - candidates KW - Germany KW - government-formation Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-404479 ER -