Wolfgang Seibel
Biographic Data
| ID | 255552 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wolfgang Seibel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wolfgang |
| FAMILY NAME | Seibel |
| SIGNATURE | SEIBEL W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Konstanz |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2063-8514 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Politik und Verwaltung
Die Trennung von Politik und Verwaltung ist der Regelfall, Ausnahmen von der Regel sind aber alltäglich. Sie betreffen Situationen, die nicht durch Routineentscheidungen zu bewältigen sind, und Strukturveränderungen der Verwaltung selbst, die gesetzliche Regelungen und eine entsprechende politische Vorbereitung erfordern. Die Trennlinie zwischen Politik und Verwaltung wird dann zu einer operativen Schnittstelle, an der die unterschiedlichen Logik…
Latent Hybridity in Administrative Crisis Management
Studying the so-called refugee crisis in Germany, this article asks about the effectiveness of crisis management by a large number of local administrations, each acting upon the same crisis impulse of a high number of asylum seekers who entered the country in 2015 and 2016. Instead of theorizing the exact administrative design features fit for an effective crisis response, the focus is on the ability of administrations to adjust. We conceptualize…
I.3. Les effets politiques d’une protestation religieuse
This article focuses on a key episode of anti-Jewish persecution in German-occupied France. In the summer of 1942, a small number of high-ranking dignitaries from the Catholic Church played an important role in stopping a carefully planned deportation scheme that started in earnest with the roundups in Paris and resulted in the internment of thousands of Jews in the infamous Vélodrome d’Hiver stadium. The paper specifically addresses the Catholic…
Autonomy, Integrity, and Values in Public Administration
This article addresses a classic problem of public administration, which is the quest for institutional integrity in the presence of bureaucratic autonomy. It does so in combination with a history of ideas account of the subject with a case study of derailed autonomy at the expense of institutional integrity It does so in combination with a history of ideas account of the subject with a case study of derailed autonomy at the expense of institutio…
Are Public Bureaucracies Supposed to Be High Reliability Organizations
This article addresses the question of to what extent conventional theories of high reliability organizations and normal accidents theory are applicable to public bureaucracy. Empirical evidence suggests precisely this. Relevant cases are, for instance, collapsing buildings and bridges due to insufficient supervision of engineering by the relevant authorities, infants dying at the hands of their own parents due to misperceptions and neglect on th…
The Management of UN Peacekeeping
This groundbreaking book brings the insights of organization and public administration theories to the analysis and enhancement of complex peace operations. Focusing on three essential and interrelated aspects of organizations—coordination, learning, and leadership—the authors bridge the gap between research on UN peacekeeping and the realities confronted both in the office and in the field.
Persecution and Rescue
In 1942, two years after invading France, the Germans implemented their policy of exterminating the Jews. In contrast to Jews in many parts of German-occupied Europe, however, the majority of Jews in France survived, thanks to opposition to the Nazi extermination policy from Church dignitaries and the moral indignation of the average Frenchmen. Seeking to maintain popular support, the Vichy Regime bargained with the Germans over the substance and…
The Holocaust in Western Europe
Welfare Mixes and Hybridity
The notion of a “welfare mix” has two different points of reference. One is the variety of institutional arrangements of modern welfare states in, basically, capitalist democracies. This is primarily connected to a cross-country comparative perspective, very much influenced by classic pieces of research on the varieties of welfare states in general and related typologies (above all Esping-Andersen, The three worlds of welfare capitalism, 1990; se…
Transformation der Politisch-Administrativen Strukturen in Ostdeutschland
Regierungssystem und Verwaltungspolitik
Demokratische Politik -- Analyse und Theorie
Demokratische Politik ― Analyse und Theorie
Beyond Bureaucracy—Public Administration as Political Integrator and Non‐Weberian Thought in Germany
The political role of public administration holds an ambiguous status in public administration theory. The dominant paradigms of the discipline offer more or less negative perspectives. Max Weber’s notion of bureaucracy conceives public administration as the apolitical tool of government, while the public choice school conceives it as the realm of individual selfishness and rent seeking at taxpayers’ expense. In this unfavorable epistemological e…
Übergangsidentitäten und Täterbiographien
The Citizen as Perpetrator
The question of how “ordinary men” became killers has long exercised the scholarly imagination, but much recent scholarship has focused on mass killing in the “East.” The present study returns our gaze to Western Europe to ask how a middle-class professional with little earlier antisemitic animus could turn into a “desk perpetrator” who worked conscientiously to destroy the Jews' livelihood and thereby contributed to the realization of the “Final…
The Nonprofit Sector in Germany. Between State, Economy and Society
This text offers an overview of the size, scope, structure, historical development and current policy environment of the German nonprofit sector
Debate
Verfolgungsnetzwerke
The Strength of Perpetrators—The Holocaust in Western Europe, 1940–1944
On average, two‐thirds of the Jews in German‐controlled territory during World War II did not survive. However, the degree of victimization varied considerably, depending on the area examined. In Poland, the Baltic States, the Protectorate of Bohemia‐Moravia, Greece, the territories of Yugoslavia and the Netherlands, more than 70 percent of Jews were killed. In Hungary and the occupied territories of the Soviet Union, the number of Jews killed wa…
Transformation of the German Political Party System
L’échec, condition de survie
Successful Failure. An Alternative View on Organizational Coping. The article paper argues that a relevant theory has to explain why resources can be continuously mobilized despite permanent failure. The phenomenon of low-performance-high-persistence organizations can be explained by the failure of those in charge of the organization to enforce their prerogatives in running the organization. Due to the fact that non-profit institutions are relati…
Demokratische Politik — Analyse und Theorie
Administrative Science as Reform
What characterizes German public administration since the 18th century is its early modernization relative to the political regime. Germany is not a classic constitutional state. The identity as well as the stability of German statehood are based on administration and its organizing principle of public law. Even when the political regimes completely broke down, as was the case in 1918 and 1945, public administration never ceased to operate more o…
Successful Failure
Although organization theory has acknowledged low-performance-high-persistence phenomena, the question remains how resources can conceivably be mobilized in favor of permanently failing organizations. This article argues that permanent organizational failure requires those contributing resources to an organization to be interested in both failure and ignorance about failure. Two illustrative examples-help for battered women, employment of the han…
Latent Hybridity in Administrative Crisis Management
Studying the so-called refugee crisis in Germany, this article asks about the effectiveness of crisis management by a large number of local administrations, each acting upon the same crisis impulse of a high number of asylum seekers who entered the country in 2015 and 2016. Instead of theorizing the exact administrative design features fit for an effective crisis response, the focus is on the ability of administrations to adjust. We conceptualize…
Government/third-sector relationship in a comparative perspective
Both the private for-profit and the non-profit (or ‘third’) sectors provide what economists call public goods. The division of labour between these sectors, however, differs substantially across countries in terms of both qualitative and quantitative dimensions. Such cross-national differences are illustrated in the present paper with respect to France and West Germany. The autonomy of the state, the nature of the dominant actors and their style …
Successful Failure
Although organization theory has acknowledged low-performance-high-persistence phenomena, the question remains how resources can conceivably be mobilized in favor of permanently failing organizations. This article argues that permanent organizational failure requires those contributing resources to an organization to be interested in both failure and ignorance about failure. Two illustrative examples-help for battered women, employment of the han…
Necessary Illusions
Unified Germany is not simply an extended version of West Germany before 9 November 1989. but a new Germany. The forces dial have made this entity different from the West German model are revealing themselves in the structure of governance that is emerging. In this paper I attempt a preliminary account of this evolving structure of governance. address three questions: First, how the process of unification is being managed politically. Second, wha…
Welfare Mixes and Hybridity
The notion of a “welfare mix” has two different points of reference. One is the variety of institutional arrangements of modern welfare states in, basically, capitalist democracies. This is primarily connected to a cross-country comparative perspective, very much influenced by classic pieces of research on the varieties of welfare states in general and related typologies (above all Esping-Andersen, The three worlds of welfare capitalism, 1990; se…
The Strength of Perpetrators—The Holocaust in Western Europe, 1940–1944
On average, two‐thirds of the Jews in German‐controlled territory during World War II did not survive. However, the degree of victimization varied considerably, depending on the area examined. In Poland, the Baltic States, the Protectorate of Bohemia‐Moravia, Greece, the territories of Yugoslavia and the Netherlands, more than 70 percent of Jews were killed. In Hungary and the occupied territories of the Soviet Union, the number of Jews killed wa…
Verfolgungsnetzwerke
Government/third-sector relationship in a comparative perspective
Both the private for-profit and the non-profit (or ‘third’) sectors provide what economists call public goods. The division of labour between these sectors, however, differs substantially across countries in terms of both qualitative and quantitative dimensions. Such cross-national differences are illustrated in the present paper with respect to France and West Germany. The autonomy of the state, the nature of the dominant actors and their style …
The Third Sector
Necessary Illusions
Unified Germany is not simply an extended version of West Germany before 9 November 1989. but a new Germany. The forces dial have made this entity different from the West German model are revealing themselves in the structure of governance that is emerging. In this paper I attempt a preliminary account of this evolving structure of governance. address three questions: First, how the process of unification is being managed politically. Second, wha…
Regierungssystem und Verwaltungspolitik
Regierungssystem und Verwaltungspolitik
Administrative Science as Reform
What characterizes German public administration since the 18th century is its early modernization relative to the political regime. Germany is not a classic constitutional state. The identity as well as the stability of German statehood are based on administration and its organizing principle of public law. Even when the political regimes completely broke down, as was the case in 1918 and 1945, public administration never ceased to operate more o…
Successful Failure
Although organization theory has acknowledged low-performance-high-persistence phenomena, the question remains how resources can conceivably be mobilized in favor of permanently failing organizations. This article argues that permanent organizational failure requires those contributing resources to an organization to be interested in both failure and ignorance about failure. Two illustrative examples-help for battered women, employment of the han…
L'héritage centraliste. L'évolution institutionnelle de la Treuhand et ses répercussions sur les structures constitutionnelles de l'Etat fédéral
L'héritage centraliste. L'évolution institutionelle de la Treuhand et ses répercussions sur les structures institutionnelles de l'Etat fédéral. Wolfgang Seibel [71-86]. Institution héritée de l'ex-RDA, la Treuhand est devenue un des pilliers du processus de transformation économique et politique de l'Allemagne de l'Est. Elle fut chargée, en octobre 1990 par le gouvernement fédéral, de la politique de privatisation du capital productif possédé aup…
Demokratische Politik — Analyse und Theorie
L’échec, condition de survie
Successful Failure. An Alternative View on Organizational Coping. The article paper argues that a relevant theory has to explain why resources can be continuously mobilized despite permanent failure. The phenomenon of low-performance-high-persistence organizations can be explained by the failure of those in charge of the organization to enforce their prerogatives in running the organization. Due to the fact that non-profit institutions are relati…
Transformation of the German Political Party System
The Strength of Perpetrators—The Holocaust in Western Europe, 1940–1944
On average, two‐thirds of the Jews in German‐controlled territory during World War II did not survive. However, the degree of victimization varied considerably, depending on the area examined. In Poland, the Baltic States, the Protectorate of Bohemia‐Moravia, Greece, the territories of Yugoslavia and the Netherlands, more than 70 percent of Jews were killed. In Hungary and the occupied territories of the Soviet Union, the number of Jews killed wa…
Debate
Verfolgungsnetzwerke
The Nonprofit Sector in Germany. Between State, Economy and Society
This text offers an overview of the size, scope, structure, historical development and current policy environment of the German nonprofit sector
Übergangsidentitäten und Täterbiographien
The Citizen as Perpetrator
The question of how “ordinary men” became killers has long exercised the scholarly imagination, but much recent scholarship has focused on mass killing in the “East.” The present study returns our gaze to Western Europe to ask how a middle-class professional with little earlier antisemitic animus could turn into a “desk perpetrator” who worked conscientiously to destroy the Jews' livelihood and thereby contributed to the realization of the “Final…
Beyond Bureaucracy—Public Administration as Political Integrator and Non‐Weberian Thought in Germany
The political role of public administration holds an ambiguous status in public administration theory. The dominant paradigms of the discipline offer more or less negative perspectives. Max Weber’s notion of bureaucracy conceives public administration as the apolitical tool of government, while the public choice school conceives it as the realm of individual selfishness and rent seeking at taxpayers’ expense. In this unfavorable epistemological e…
Demokratische Politik ― Analyse und Theorie
Transformation der Politisch-Administrativen Strukturen in Ostdeutschland
Regierungssystem und Verwaltungspolitik
Demokratische Politik -- Analyse und Theorie
The Holocaust in Western Europe
Welfare Mixes and Hybridity
The notion of a “welfare mix” has two different points of reference. One is the variety of institutional arrangements of modern welfare states in, basically, capitalist democracies. This is primarily connected to a cross-country comparative perspective, very much influenced by classic pieces of research on the varieties of welfare states in general and related typologies (above all Esping-Andersen, The three worlds of welfare capitalism, 1990; se…
Persecution and Rescue
In 1942, two years after invading France, the Germans implemented their policy of exterminating the Jews. In contrast to Jews in many parts of German-occupied Europe, however, the majority of Jews in France survived, thanks to opposition to the Nazi extermination policy from Church dignitaries and the moral indignation of the average Frenchmen. Seeking to maintain popular support, the Vichy Regime bargained with the Germans over the substance and…
Political science (25 works) · Law (13 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · German (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Public Administration (7 works) · Public Administration and Political Analysis (7 works) · Economics (6 works)