Politikberatung – eine Einführung

Falk, Svenja; Glaab, Manuela; Römmele, Andrea; Schober, H.; Thunert, Martin

doi:10.1007/978-3-658-03483-2_1

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“…Throughout the initial establishment of the CCG-Unit, there was fierce media coverage, mainly due to the behavioral science orientation of the unit (especially the so-called nudging), which was referred to as “a particularly insidious form of coercion, in which the state manipulates and patronizes the citizen without democratic control and thus ultimately shapes its model citizen” (Dams et al, 2015), epitomized by the yellow press as: “Merkel wants to hire psycho trainers” (BILD 2019, quoted in Falk et al, 2019: 4). As can be expected, the unit's members were convinced that it was “not doing anything bad, but acting in the interests of the citizens” (INT1).…”

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Organizational reputation in executive politics: Citizen-oriented units in the German federal bureaucracy

Fleischer

Pruin

2023

International Review of Administrative Sciences

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In recent years, governments have increased their efforts to strengthen the citizen-orientation in policy design. They have established temporary arenas as well as permanent units inside the machinery of government to integrate citizens into policy formulation, leading to a “laboratorization” of central government organizations. We argue that the evolution and role of these units herald new dynamics in the importance of organizational reputation for executive politics. These actors deviate from the classic palette of organizational units inside the machinery of government and thus require their own reputation vis-à-vis various audiences within and outside their parent organization. Based on a comparative case study of two of these units inside the German federal bureaucracy, we show how ambiguous expectations of their audiences challenge their organizational reputation. Both units resolve these tensions by balancing their weaker professional and procedural reputation with a stronger performative and moral reputation. We conclude that government units aiming to improve citizen orientation in policy design may benefit from engaging with citizens as their external audience to compensate for a weaker reputation in the eyes of their audiences inside the government organization. Points for practitioners Many governments have introduced novel means to strengthen citizen-centered policy design, which has led to an emergence of novel units inside central government that differ from traditional bureaucratic structures and procedures. This study analyzes how these new units may build their organizational reputation vis-à-vis internal and external actors in government policymaking. We show that such units assert themselves primarily based on their performative and moral reputation.

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Section: Empirical Analysismentioning

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Organizational reputation in executive politics: Citizen-oriented units in the German federal bureaucracy

Fleischer

Pruin

2023

International Review of Administrative Sciences

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“…With the substantial increase of the use of the concepts of psychology and public health in the scientific discourse, it would be easy to wonder whether this increase has been echoed in the political discourse on poverty. Research ideas and results are often taken up by political actors, for example, by consulting scientific experts in political commissions (Falk et al, 2019). Hence, whether medicalization and psychologization processes have occurred not only in the scientific arena but also in the political arena is an open question.…”

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Poverty: More Than Just a Lack of Material Resources?

Krayter,

Ariaans

2023

Toward a Biopsychosocial Welfare State?

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Krayter and Ariaans empirically demonstrate how poverty is becoming increasingly connected to medical and psychological language as well as to medicalized and psychologized institutional categories. By first showing that poverty is a social construct whose meaning has developed throughout the decades, the authors reveal that scientific publications have contributed to an increasingly medical and psychological definition of poverty. Drawing on the example of Germany, the authors explain how political actors have medicalized and psychologized the issue of poverty as well as how German institutions have increasingly frequently drawn on medical and psychological labels and categories.

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Public-Affairs-Dienstleister und -Berater

Fuhrberg¹

2021

Handbuch Public Affairs

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Politikberatung – eine Einführung

Cited by 7 publications

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Organizational reputation in executive politics: Citizen-oriented units in the German federal bureaucracy

Organizational reputation in executive politics: Citizen-oriented units in the German federal bureaucracy

Poverty: More Than Just a Lack of Material Resources?

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