NIPAG Publications

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The findings of the Institute's research are disseminated through a variety of channels, including academic journals, external publishing houses, and the Institute's own publication series.

This page provides an overview of the Institute's publications since 2016. For the full texts of these publications, as well as those from earlier years, please refer to the joint document and publication server (DoPuS) of the Research Institute and the University of Speyer.

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What does knowledge management in public administrations look like in practice?

The need for effective and targeted knowledge management in the public sector is growing in response to complex challenges, impending retirement waves, and digital transformation. However, knowledge management is often treated as a buzzword, without really understan-ding its scope.

2025-03-06 10:53:25 FÖV Discussion Papers

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Resilienz und Vulnerabilität des freiheitlichen Verfassungsstaates:

Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland steht auch 75 Jahre nach ihrer Gründung auf einem demokratischen Fundament und muss weder die Schrecken eines Bürgerkrieges noch einer Hyperinflation fürchten.

2025-02-13 10:13:57 Further Publications In: Der Staat: Zeitschrift für Staatslehre und Verfassungsgeschichte, deutsches und europäisches öffentliches Recht, Heft 4, S. 515-546.

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What drives trust in regulatory agencies?

Trust between constituent actors within the European Union (EU)'s multilevel regulatory re-gimes is decisive for regulatory success. Trust drives information flows, increases compliance, and improves cooperation within these regimes.

2025-02-10 14:08:24 Further Publications In: European Political Science Review: EPSR; a journal of the European Consortium for Political Research, Heft 4/2024, S. 539-556.

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How do elite core actors assess trust in national and EU authorities?

In this paper, we position generalised trust as central to the debate on elites’ assessments of trust in EU multi-level governance. We leverage one of the most influential factors in explaining political trust in single-government studies to understand variations in trust towards political authorities at various levels.

2025-02-10 13:58:44 Further Publications In: Comparative European Politics: CEP, Online first 2024.

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Public-private partnerships caught in a trust-trap and the potential role of information:

Trust is known to be beneficial for cooperation, though remains underdeveloped in public-private partnerships (PPPs), which are caught in a trust trap due to the cooperative regime’s internal heterogeneity.

2025-02-10 13:52:31 Further Publications In: European Journal of Government and Economics: EJGE, Heft 1/2014, S. 5-28.

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Public values im öffentlichen Dienst

Der Begriff der public values hebt auf den gesellschaftlichen Mehrwert einer öffentlichen Organisation sowie auf ihre gesellschaftsstabilisierende Funktion ab. Er wird im vorliegenden Beitrag zunächst aus einer historischen und vergleichenden Perspektive erörtert.

2025-01-20 10:34:13 Further Publications In: Die öffentliche Verwaltung: DÖV, Zeitschrift für öffentliches Recht und Verwaltungswissenschaft, Kohlhammer: Stuttgart, Heft 1, S. 1-8.

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Civil Service in Transition: Privatisation or Alignment of Employment Conditions?

The role of the State as an employer requires special regulation. Traditionally, the prototypical public employee has been the civil servant, whose employment relationship had specific public-law status.

2025-01-20 09:27:18 Further Publications In: The Civil Service in Europe: A Research Companion, Routledge: London, S. 423-441.

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Methylmercury contamination in Mediterranean seafood: Exposure assessment and cost of illness implications

Methylmercury (MeHg) is a widespread contaminant that bioaccumulates in marine food webs, including those in the Mediterranean sea. It poses serious health risks, especially to developing infants and children, where exposure can cause neurological damage and developmental delays.

2025-01-16 10:38:30 Further Publications In: The Science of The Total Environment: an international journal for scientific research into the environment and its relationship with man, Elsevier: Amsterdam.

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The Civil Service in Europe:

This book opens an often nationally focused field of research to a transnational, common European debate. It addresses the ongoing transformation of the civil service, examining its evolving landscape across Europe and exploring the intricate web of historical, social and political influences that are shaping its current state and setting the future direction.

2025-01-16 09:59:45 Further Publications Routledge: London 2025.

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Publications (Mainly in German)

Public Administration and the Transformation of Civil Service:

The articles published in this special issue of CERIDAP are a revised version of papers presented at the "Public Administration in the New Millennium" conference, which took place on December 15 and 16, 2022, at the University of Milan.

2025-01-16 09:33:45 Further Publications In: CERIDAP: rivista interdisciplinare sul diritto delle amministrazioni pubbliche, Sonderheft 2, Università di Milano: Milano 2024.

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More about our current projects

Our current projects

Projects

Development and Implementation of a Youth-Check for Berlin

The project engages with the development and introduction of a youth specific regulatory impact assessment tool (‘youth-check’) for the Federal State of Berlin. The project was introduced after the Berlin Senate passed a resolution in April of 2024 which approved the introduction and implementation of a youth-check for Berlin. The youth-check is a regulatory impact assessment tool that helps to raise awareness for the concerns of the young generation. The youth-check helps to visualise the effects of draft legislation on the young generation.

2024-09-01 13:08:00 Transformation of Public Administration Transformation of the administration | Duration: 01/09/2024 -31/07/2025 | Funding: Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family Berlin

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Cybersecurity And The New EU Legislation

The project "Cybersecurity And The New EU Legislation" investigates the recent and upcoming legislative acts by the EU, especially the NIS-2-Directive, the Cyberresilience Act and the EU Cyber Solidarity Act.

2024-08-01 09:49:00 Digital Transformation in the Rule of Law Duration: 01/08/2024 - 31/03/2026

[Translate to English:] Eine Waage und ein Dollarzeichen auf schwarzem Hintergrund

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Scientific evaluation of the "Second Collective Agreement on Measures to Accompany the Reorganisation of the Brandenburg State Administration" (TV Umbau II)

The National Institute for Public Administration Germany is conducting a scientific evaluation of the TV Umbau II on behalf of Ministry of the Interior and for Municipal Affairs.

2024-07-16 11:46:00 Transformation of Public Administration Duration: 16/07/2024 - 30/06/2025 | Funding: Ministry of the Interior and for Municipal Affairs Brandenburg

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Building Bridges: The partnership with EURAC Bozen takes a new step. International conference on artificial intelligence in cooperation with the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation

On 28 February 2025, the Institute for Comparative Federalism at EURAC Bozen organised, in collaboration with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, an international conference on "Artificial Intelligence - Challenges for Administration and Law". EURAC Bozen is a research institution with which FÖV signed a cooperation agreement in 2010. The conference represents a new step of a lively scientific exchange between the two institutions.

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“Satisfied with New Work? The effects of changes in work on the health and satisfaction of employees”

The third workshop in the “New Work in Public Administration” series of events will take place from April 2 to 3. As in previous years, the event will be organized by the National Intsitute for Public Administration (NIPAG) and held in cooperation with the subcommittee “General Administrative Organization” (UA AV) of AK VI of the Conference of Interior Ministers under the direction of Prof. Dr. Jan Ziekow and Dr. Silke I. Keil.

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Discussion Paper „What does knowledge management in public administrations look like in practice? Development of KM criteria on the basis of case study reviews" is published

The recently published discussion paper “What does knowledge management in public administrations look like in practice? Development of KM criteria on the basis of case study reviews.” analyses and clarifies the sometimes elusive concept of knowledge management using a series of international case studies. The author Stella Hill examines over 100 instances where knowledge management has been implemented in the public sector, deriving a set of criteria that empirically define knowledge management.
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Artificial intelligence in administration: reducing bureaucracy à la Musk - Prof. Dr Jan Ziekow and Dr Silke I. Keil from the NIPAG in dialogue with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung

The ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ (DOGE), an organisation initiated by Elon Musk and created by decree, is streamlining public administration in the USA by using AI, among other things. In this context, Prof Dr Jan Ziekow and Dr Silke Keil from the National Institute for Public Administration Germany (NIPAG) discuss the opportunities and risks of artificial intelligence in public administration in Germany.

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The handbook "The Civil Service in Europe: A Research Companion" has been published

Over 50 experts from various European countries analyse the changes and reform needs of the civil service in Europe comparatively in about thousand pages. The handbook aims to establish civil service law as part of European constitutional and administrative law and promote a European public administration perspective.

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Lecture hosted at the NIPAG on the international research project 'Opportunities and risks associated with automated administrative decisions,' with the participation of the NIPAG.

On 3 December 2024, guest researcher Prof. Angela Ferrari Zumbini (Universita Federico II, Naples, Italy) gave a lecture at the National Institute for Public Administration Germany (NIPAG) on the application of artificial intelligence in administrative decision-making.

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