Political Decision-Making under Conditions of a PandemiaFrank Nullmeier
2 December 2021
Frank Nullmeier (University of Bremen), 17:15 - 18:45, presents his project in the Interdisciplinary Research Seminar of the GRK "Collective Decision-Making”.
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Abstract
Political decision-making in times of extreme crisis is often expected to achieve a higher degree of consensus. Misery unites - a Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat speech and consensus can be established. But the opposite assumption can also be defended: Conflicts of interest come to a head in the face of the immense costs of any solution in the crisis - a pronounced political polarisation occurs. In recent days, however, German politics - in the midst of the next wave of the pandemic - has found itself in a situation where neither consensus nor polarisation occur, but disagreement on all sides. The lecture examines three topics of political decision-making in the pandemic: (1) decision-making by simultaneous horizontal and vertical coordination, (2) the political non-bundling of interests, evidence and time horizons, and (3) administrative control without implementation and monitoring resources, and asks about the causes of this general non-agreement.