Crisis Management in Public Administration COVID, De-/Centralization and the Public Health Service in Germany

2021

Master's thesis in Political science and management (ME502) The challenges revealed by the COVID-19 crisis are omnipresent. The most urgent is an efficient pandemic response, which is described to be dependent from the institutional design and the organization of crisis management. Therefore, this thesis raises the question of what influence the federalism and the accompanying decentralized organization of the pandemic response has on the crisis management in Germany. Using expert interviews and qualitative methods, three states in Germany are being used as cases and compared according to their institutional design and their challenges in crisis management. On the one hand, it is shown that…