Dr. Jörn Ege

Work at ZHAW

Position

Lecturer Local & Regional Governance

Focus

Policy implementation, co-production/co-creation, coordination, policy compliance, evidence-based policy-making, international public administration, European Commission, multi-level governance, ageing and housing policy

Teaching

• Research Design (MSc)
• Economics and Politics (MSc)
• Governance (BSc)

Experience

• Project researcher, SNSF Project «CoWiNaCo»
  University of Bern
  10 / 2021 - 08 / 2022
• Interim Professorship «Digital Governance»
  University of Konstanz
  10 / 2021 - 03 / 2022
• Honorary Research Fellow
  University of Exeter
  12 / 2017 - 12 / 2021
• German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer
  PI within the DFG research unit «International Public Administration»
  03 / 2016 - 02 / 2021
• researcher
  German Research Institute for Public Administration Speyer
  10 / 2014 - 03 / 2016
• researcher and PhD student
  Humboldt University Berlin
  10 / 2014 - 03 / 2016

Education and Continuing education

Education

• PhD / Political Science
  Humboldt University Berlin
  01 / 2011 - 05 / 2016
• M.A. / Politics and Public Administration
  University of Konstanz
  10 / 2008 - 09 / 2010
• B.A. / Political and Administrative Science
  University of Konstanz
  10 / 2004 - 03 / 2008

Network

Membership of networks

• ECPR Standing Group for Public Policy
• German Political Science Association
• Alumni of Political and Administrative Science Students University of Konstanz
• Google Scholar

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-7286-6880

Awards

International Review of Administrative Science (IRAS)
Christopher Pollitt Award für den besten Artikel 2021 in IRAS
09 / 2023

Recommendations

New blog post about our research on policy divergence of street-level bureaucrats

Social media

• ResearchGate
• LinkedIn

Publications

• Ege, Jörn; Gofen,Anat; Hadorn,Susanne; Hakman,Inbal; Malandrino,Anna; Ramseier,Leroy; Sager,Fritz,

  2024.

  Understanding street-level managers’ compliance : a comparative study of policy implementation in Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and Israel.

  Policy and Society.

  43(3), pp. 317-333.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/polsoc/puae024

• Thomann, Eva; Maxia, James; Ege, Jörn,

  2023.

  How street‐level dilemmas and politics shape divergence : the accountability regimes framework.

  Policy Studies Journal.

  51(4), pp. 793-816.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12504

• Ege, Jörn; Bauer, Michael W.; Wagner, Nora; Thomann, Eva,

  2022.

  Under what conditions does bureaucracy matter in the making of global public policies?.

  Governance.

  36(4), pp. 1313-1333.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12741

• Thomann, Eva; Ege, Jörn; Paustyan, Ekaterina,

  2022.

  Approaches to qualitative comparative analysis and good practices : a systematic review.

  Swiss Political Science Review.

  28(3), pp. 557-580.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/spsr.12503

• Hadorn, Susanne; Sager, Fritz; Mavrot, Céline; Malandrino, Anna; Ege, Jörn,

  2022.

  Evidence-based policymaking in times of acute crisis : comparing the use of scientific knowledge in Germany, Switzerland, and Italy.

  Politische Vierteljahresschrift.

  63(2), pp. 359-382.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11615-022-00382-x

• Ege, Jörn; Bauer, Michael W.; Bayerlein, Louisa; Eckhard, Steffen; Knill, Christoph,

  2021.

  Avoiding disciplinary garbage cans : a pledge for a problem-driven approach to researching international public administration.

  Journal of European Public Policy.

  29(7), pp. 1169-1181.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2021.1906300

• Ege, Jörn; Bauer, Michael W.; Wagner, Nora,

  2021.

  How do international bureaucrats affect policy outputs? : studying administrative influence strategies in international organizations.

  International Review of Administrative Sciences.

  87(4), pp. 737-754.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/00208523211000109

• Thomann, Eva; Ege, Jörn,

  2020.

  Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) in public administration.

  Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1444

• Ege, Jörn,

  2020.

  What international bureaucrats (really) want.

  Global Governance.

  26(4), pp. 577-600.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1163/19426720-02604003

• Ege, Jörn; Bauer, Michael W; Wagner, Nora,

  2019.

  Improving generalizability in transnational bureaucratic influence research : a (modest) proposal.

  International Studies Review.

  22(3), pp. 551-575.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/viz026

• Ege, Jörn,

  2019.

  Learning from the commission case : the comparative study of management change in international public administrations.

  Public Administration.

  97(2), pp. 384-398.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12546

• Bauer, Michael W.; Ege, Jörn; Schomaker, Rahel,

  2018.

  The challenge of administrative internationalization : taking stock and looking ahead.

  International Journal of Public Administration.

  42(11), pp. 904-917.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2018.1522642

• Bauer, Michael; Eckhard, Steffen; Ege, Jörn; Knill, Christoph,

  2024.

  Means of bureaucratic influence : the interplay between formal autonomy and informal styles in international bureaucracies

  .

  In:

  Jörgens, Helge; Kolleck, Nina; Well, Mareike, eds.,

  International Public Administrations in Environmental Governance: The Role of Autonomy, Agency and the Quest for Attention.

  United Kingdom:

  Cambridge University Press.

  pp. 27-56.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009383486.002

• Jankauskas, Vytautas; Eckhard, Steffen; Ege, Jörn,

  2023.

  Structured, focused comparison

  .

  In:

  Badache, Fanny; Kimber, Leah R.; Maertens, Lucile, eds.,

  International organizations and research methods : an introduction.

  University of Michigan Press.

  pp. 301-307.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11685289

• Bauer, Michael W.; Ege, Jörn; Wagner, Nora,

  2022.

  Conditions of influence : policy effects of IPA autonomy in comparative perspective

  .

  In:

  Knill, Christoph; Steinebach, Yves, eds.,

  International public administrations in global public policy : sources and effects of bureaucratic influence.

  London:

  Routledge.

  pp. 31-51.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003323297-4

• Bauer, Michael; Ege, Jörn,

  2022.

  No actorness without autonomy : researching IPAs’ role in transnational policy-making

  .

  In:

  Knill, Christoph; Steinebach, Yves, eds.,

  International public administrations in global public policy : sources and effects of bureaucratic influence.

  London:

  Routledge.

  pp. 13-30.

  Routledge Studies in Policy and Power.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003323297-3

• Schomaker, Rahel M.; Bauer, Michael W.; Ege, Jörn,

  2019.

  Bureaucracy and Internationalization

  .

  In:

  Farazmand, Ali, ed.,

  Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance.

  Cham:

  Springer.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3748-2

• Ege, Jörn,

  2022.

  International public administration and politics

  .

  In:

  Ladner, Andreas; Sager, Fritz, eds.,

  Handbook on the Politics of Public Administration.

  Cheltenham:

  Edward Elgar Publishing.

  pp. 70-81.

• Bauer, Michael W.; Bayerlein, Louisa; Ege, Jörn; Knill, Christoph; Trondal, Jarle,

  2019.

  Perspectives on international public administration research : a rejoinder to Johan Christensen and Kutsal Yesilkagit.

  Oslo:

  ARENA Centre for European Studies.

  Available from: https://www.sv.uio.no/arena/english/research/publications/arena-working-papers/2019/WP-1-19.html

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

• Ege, Jörn, Michael W. Bauer, Stefan Becker (eds). 2018. The European Commission in Turbulent Times: Assessing Organizational Change and Policy Impact. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
• Ege, Jörn. 2016. Verwaltungsautonomie in internationalen Organisationen - Eine deskriptiv-vergleichende Analyse. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
• Ege, Jörn. 2017. ‘Comparing the Autonomy of International Public Administrations - An Ideal Type Approach.’ Public Administration 95(3):555-70.
• Ege, Jörn, Michael W. Bauer. 2017. ‘How Financial Resources Affect the Autonomy of International Public Administrations.’ Global Policy 8:75-84.
• Bauer, Michael W., Jörn Ege. 2016. ‘Bureaucratic autonomy of international organizations’ secretariats.’ Journal of European Public Policy 23(7):1019-37.
• Eckhard, Steffen, Jörn Ege. 2016. ‘International bureaucracies and their influence on policy-making: a review of empirical evidence.’ Journal of European Public Policy 23(7):960-78.
• Bauer, Michael W., Eugénia da Conceição-Heldt, Jörn Ege. 2015. ‘Autonomiekonzeptionen internationaler Organisationen im Vergleich.’ Politische Vierteljahresschrift Sonderheft 49:28-53.
• Bauer Michael W., Jörn Ege. 2012. ‘The Politicisation of the European Commission’s Bureaucracy.’ International Review of Administrative Sciences 78(3):403-24.

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