„Polizei ist Ländersache!“ — Politik der Inneren Sicherheit

Frevel, Bernhard; Groß, Hermann

doi:10.1007/978-3-531-90910-3_4

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“…So it is likely to remain a key domain for such manipulation tactics. Regarding Germany specifically, a recent constitutional amendment, the “Föderalismusreform I”, has further strengthened the competences of the states in civil service employment (Frevel and Groß 2008, 84). This is likely to further boost the political manipulation of police employment.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Historically, there have been major East–West differences within Germany in this domain. After World War II, the rebuilding of police services in the new German Democratic Republic involved a centralised organisation of police forces, whereas the Federal Republic of Germany implemented a decentralised, federal organisation to improve checks and balances on policing (Frevel and Groß 2008, 69). Re-unification in 1990 caused a substantial rebuilding of police forces in the former Eastern Germany aimed at replacing “political” officers, and at implementing a federal organisational model.…”

Section: Police Employment In Germany: the Institutional Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The “motive” to do so appears strong as well. The high salience of local-level domestic security provides some circumstantial evidence for its electoral importance in Germany (Frevel and Groß 2008, 85; Gerber et al 2010). Criminologists indicate that the fear of crime affects far more citizens than actual experiences with crime (Warr 2000; Gray et al 2008).…”

Section: Theory: Electioneering Partisanship Demand-side Saliencementioning

confidence: 99%

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Cops for hire? The political economy of police employment in the German states

Tepe¹,

Vanhuysse²

2013

J. Pub. Pol.

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In times of an alleged waning of political business cycles and partisan policy-making, vote-seeking policy-makers can be expected to shift the use of political manipulation mechanisms towards other policy domains in which the macro-institutional environment allows them greater leverage. Public employment generally, and police employment specifically, are a promising domain for such tactics. Timing the hiring of police officers during election periods may increase votes, as these are ''street-visible'' jobs dealing with politically salient issues. Law-and-order competence signalling makes police hiring especially attractive for conservative parties. Testing these electioneering and partisanship hypotheses in the German states between 1992 and 2010, we find that socio-economic variables such as population density strongly determine police employment. But incumbents also hire more police officers before elections, while conservative party power increases police numbers. Subjectively ''immediate'' forms of crime (issue salience) and perceived causes of crime such as immigration are also positively associated with police numbers.

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Section: Theory: Electioneering Partisanship Demand-side Saliencementioning

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Cops for hire? The political economy of police employment in the German states

Tepe¹,

Vanhuysse²

2013

J. Pub. Pol.

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“…The German constitution gives the Bundesländer the authority to regulate police (Frevel & Groß, 2008; Ritsert & Pekar, 2009). This means that the Bundespolizei that operates at a federal level has only very limited responsibilities such as border protection or investigating certain major crimes (for a detailed overview of the operational responsibilities see Ritsert & Pekar, 2009).…”

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Do organizational differences matter for the use of social media by public organizations? A computational analysis of the way the German police use Twitter for external communication

Jungblut

2021

Public Administration

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Using a neo‐institutional framework, this study investigates how German police use Twitter for their communication. This is relevant, because the police increasingly use social media to bypass the media's gatekeeping function and attain increased agency in communication activities. However, little is known about their different communication strategies and their impact on user engagement. The analysis is based on an automated content analysis of all tweets (N = 137,771) sent out by the German police in 2019. It identifies different patterns regarding the usage of Twitter between police entities on different levels of governance and in differing types of environments and examines how these patterns translate into different levels of user engagement. We find that German police entities differ in their use of Twitter and that environmental and organizational aspects can explain these differences. Moreover, different patterns of social media usage also lead to differing levels of user engagement.

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“…Germany, like other federal countries, has decentralized police. The German constitution gives the sixteen Bundesländer (federal states) the main authority to regulate the police (Frevel & Groß, 2008;Ritsert & Pekar, 2009). While there is a federal level police service, the Bundespolizei, it only has very limited responsibilities such as border protection or investigating certain major crimes (Ritsert & Pekar, 2009).…”

Section: Hypotheses On the Use Of Twitter By The German Policementioning

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Spreading information or engaging the public? The German police’s communication on Twitter

Jungblut

2022

Public Management Review

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Police like other public organizations increasingly use social media for external communication. Due to bureaucratic organization social media poses a communication challenge for them. This study analyses the content of tweets by German police using a three-category framework. Machine-learning based classification tasks are coupled with multilevel modeling to analyze all tweets distributed in 2019. The study demonstrates that police largely use Twitter to distribute information unidirectionally focusing on core tasks, while information gathering, and public relations only play a subordinate role. There is variation between accounts. However, the model only explains parts of it, thus inviting for follow-up research.

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„Polizei ist Ländersache!“ — Politik der Inneren Sicherheit

Cited by 16 publications

References 7 publications

Cops for hire? The political economy of police employment in the German states

Cops for hire? The political economy of police employment in the German states

Do organizational differences matter for the use of social media by public organizations? A computational analysis of the way the German police use Twitter for external communication

Spreading information or engaging the public? The German police’s communication on Twitter

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