| Publication type: | Article in scientific journal |
| Type of review: | Peer review (publication) |
| Title: | Horizontal coordination in cooperative federalism : the purpose of ministerial conferences in Germany |
| Authors: | Hegele, Yvonne Behnke, Nathalie |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13597566.2017.1315716 |
| Published in: | Regional & Federal Studies |
| Volume(Issue): | 27 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Page(s): | 529 |
| Pages to: | 548 |
| Issue Date: | 2017 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Routledge |
| ISSN: | 1359-7566 1743-9434 |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Intergovernmental relation; Cooperative federalism; Policy sector; Shared rule/self-rule |
| Subject (DDC): | 350: Public administration |
| Abstract: | Intergovernmental councils in Germany comprise 18 sectoral ministerial conferences and the prime ministerial conference as peak organization. They complement the Bundesrat as institutions of Intergovernmental Relations in the German system of cooperative federalism, dealing with matters of shared rule as well as self-rule. Based on expert interviews among ministerial bureaucrats, this contribution finds that contrary to conventional wisdom, vertical influence and autonomy protection are not their main purpose. Rather, they serve primarily information exchange and coordination. Still, the emphasis on either influence and autonomy protection or coordination and information as well as the directions of interaction vary across policy sectors. We further investigate constitutional allocation of power and party political composition as determinants on the specific purpose of ministerial conferences. The findings suggest that the allocation of power is more important than party political composition in explaining variation between sectoral ministerial conferences. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/17391 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | Licence according to publishing contract |
| Departement: | School of Management and Law |
| Organisational Unit: | Institute of Public Management (IVM) |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen School of Management and Law |
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Hegele, Y., & Behnke, N. (2017). Horizontal coordination in cooperative federalism : the purpose of ministerial conferences in Germany. Regional & Federal Studies, 27(5), 529–548. https://doi.org/10.1080/13597566.2017.1315716
Hegele, Y. and Behnke, N. (2017) ‘Horizontal coordination in cooperative federalism : the purpose of ministerial conferences in Germany’, Regional & Federal Studies, 27(5), pp. 529–548. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/13597566.2017.1315716.
Y. Hegele and N. Behnke, “Horizontal coordination in cooperative federalism : the purpose of ministerial conferences in Germany,” Regional & Federal Studies, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 529–548, 2017, doi: 10.1080/13597566.2017.1315716.
HEGELE, Yvonne und Nathalie BEHNKE, 2017. Horizontal coordination in cooperative federalism : the purpose of ministerial conferences in Germany. Regional & Federal Studies. 2017. Bd. 27, Nr. 5, S. 529–548. DOI 10.1080/13597566.2017.1315716
Hegele, Yvonne, and Nathalie Behnke. 2017. “Horizontal Coordination in Cooperative Federalism : The Purpose of Ministerial Conferences in Germany.” Regional & Federal Studies 27 (5): 529–48. https://doi.org/10.1080/13597566.2017.1315716.
Hegele, Yvonne, and Nathalie Behnke. “Horizontal Coordination in Cooperative Federalism : The Purpose of Ministerial Conferences in Germany.” Regional & Federal Studies, vol. 27, no. 5, 2017, pp. 529–48, https://doi.org/10.1080/13597566.2017.1315716.
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