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Die Verwaltungswissenschaft hat in Deutschland einen unsicheren Stand und einen unklaren Status. Eine kohärente politologische Forschungsprogrammatik hat sich weder im Hinblick auf eine empirische Verwaltungslehre noch als Theorie politischer Organisation etabliert. Die in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge ziehen Bilanz und loten neue Perspektiven der Verknüpfung empirischer Forschung und Theoriebildung aus.Mit Beiträgen vonChristian Adam, Michael W. Bauer, Stefan Becker, Jörg Bogumil, Nathalie Behnke, Arthur Benz, Edgar Grande, Christoph Knill, Frank Nullmeier, Rainer Prätorius, Wolfgang Seibel, Annette Töller und Sylvia Veit.

"Policy and Organizational Termination" published on by Oxford University Press.

AbstractVoluntary contributions – often earmarked for specific purposes – have become an indispensable source of revenue for international organizations (IOs) and the UN organizations in particular. While the reasons for this trend are regularly studied, its effects on the internal functioning of the organization (especially on the 'international public administration' (IPA) as the organization's secretariat) remain unclear. Given this gap, we study the consequences of increasing financial dependence for the autonomy of IPA staff. Using financial and personnel data of 15 UN agencies over time, our results are in line with the intuitive expectation that more financial resources in the form of voluntary contributions increase the number of staff. We also find evidence, however, that the more an organization depends on voluntary resources (within its broader financial portfolio), the more it reduces the ratio of permanent staff among its total workforce in the subsequent years. The underlying adaption of IPAs' recruitment and career structures to growing financial insecurities has important implications for the autonomy of international bureaucrats and needs to be considered also in terms of its long‐term impact on administrative professionalism and organizational performance.

The European Union is going through turbulent times. The aftermath of the eurozone crisis, the challenges posed by increasing migration and the Brexit negotiations are just some of the recent challenges that have threatened the future of the Union. It is against this background that this volume brings together contributions by a variety of scholars from different academic disciplines. Focusing on the role of the Commission within the institutional system of the EU, its internal structures and processes as well as its policymaking and implementation activities, this book addresses some of the most pressing empirical and theoretical questions that have surrounded the Commission in recent years. While the last decade has intensified the challenges faced by this institution, this book's main contention is that the Commission's central position has partly endured as a result of deliberate decisions made by the EU's member states, and partly through the Commission's own activism.With contributions byProf. Dr. Wolfgang Wessels, Marieke Eckhardt, Prof. Dr. Andreas Maurer, Michael C. Wolf, Dr. Christian Adam, Prof. Dr. Miriam Hartlapp, Dipl.-Jur. Robert Böttner, Prof. Dr. Ingeborg Tömmel, Prof. Dr. Sandra Eckert, Prof. Dr. Michèle Knodt, Prof. Dr. Marc Ringel, Prof. Dr. Hussein Kassim, Prof. Dr. Sara Connolly, Prof. Dr. Michael W. Bauer, Dr. Jörn Ege, Stefan Becker, M.A.