The Problem-solving Capacity of the Modern State Governance Challenges and Administrative Capacities

Kai Wegrich, Professor of Public Administration and Public Policy, Hertie School of Governance,Martin Lodge, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Department of Government and the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation, London School of Economics and Political Science

The Hertie School of Governance is an international teaching and research centre of excellence in Berlin, Germany that prepares students for leadership positions in government, business, and civil society. An internationally-recruited faculty, interdisciplinary in outlook, research, and teaching, offers analytically-challenging and practice-oriented courses on governance, policy analysis, management, and leadership and helps students grow intellectually in a professional, research-intensive environment, characterised by public debate and engagement. The School was founded in 2003 as a project of the Hertie Foundation, which remains its major partner.


Martin Lodge (PhD, London School of Economics) is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy in the Department of Government and the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).


Kai Wegrich (Dr. rer. pol., Potsdam University) is Professor of Public Administration and Public Policy at the Hertie School of Governance.

1. Governance Innovation, Administrative Capacities, and Policy Instruments, Martin Lodge and Kai Wegrich
Part I Administrative Capacities
2. Delivery Capacity, Peter Hupe and Michael Hill
3. Coordination Capacity, Kai Wegrich and Vid Stimac
4. Regulatory Capacity, Martin Lodge
5. Analytical Capacity, Salvador Parrado
6. Management Capacity and Performance in European Public Administrations, Gerhard Hammerschmid, Vid Stimac, and Kai Wegrich
Part II Challenges and Capacities in Key Policy Areas
7. Demographic Change and Welfare State Restructuring, Michaela Kreyenfeld and Anika Rasner
8. Sustainability, Andrea Lenschow
9. Governance Dilemmas of the Contemporary State: The Politics of Infrastructure Policy, Jacint Jordana
10. Wicked Problems, Clumsy Solutions and Messy Institutions in Transnational Governance, Marco Verweij
11. Capacity and Constraint: Governance Through International and Transnational Law, Nico Krisch
12. Administrative Capacities in the European Union: Developing a Multilevel Executive, Eva Heidbreder
13. Collaborative Innovation and Governance Capacity, Eva Sorensen and Jacob Torfing
14. Capacity, Innovation and their Interaction in Multistakeholder Sustainability Initiatives, Kira Matus
15. Conclusion, Martin Lodge and Kai Wegrich