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)
• Public Policy and Management Summer School (MSc)

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

Projects

• The Relevance and Success of Co-Production in Local Governance / Project leader / ongoing
• Analysis and Strategic Alignment of Child and Youth Policy in a Swiss Municipality / Team member / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Machljankin, J. et al. (2026) 'Exploring the role of consulting in local government digital transformation', Public Money & Management, 46(2), pp. 202–211. doi: 10.1080/09540962.2024.2414060.
• Ege, J., Kaiser, C. and Steiner, R. (2025) 'Explaining patterns of co-creation in Swiss local governance', Public Management Review, 28(6), pp. 1644–1666. doi: 10.1080/14719037.2025.2505149.
• Ege, J. et al. (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. doi: 10.1093/polsoc/puae024.
• Thomann, E., Maxia, J. and Ege, J. (2023) 'How street‐level dilemmas and politics shape divergence : the accountability regimes framework', Policy Studies Journal, 51(4), pp. 793–816. doi: 10.1111/psj.12504.
• Thomann, E., Ege, J. and Paustyan, E. (2022) 'Approaches to qualitative comparative analysis and good practices : a systematic review', Swiss Political Science Review, 28(3), pp. 557–580. doi: 10.1111/spsr.12503.
• Hadorn, S. et al. (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. doi: 10.1007/s11615-022-00382-x.
• Ege, J. et al. (2022) 'Under what conditions does bureaucracy matter in the making of global public policies?', Governance, 36(4), pp. 1313–1333. doi: 10.1111/gove.12741.
• Ege, J. et al. (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. doi: 10.1080/13501763.2021.1906300.
• Ege, J., Bauer, M. W. and Wagner, N. (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. doi: 10.1177/00208523211000109.
• Ege, J. (2020) 'What international bureaucrats (really) want', Global Governance, 26(4), pp. 577–600. doi: 10.1163/19426720-02604003.
• Thomann, E. and Ege, J. (2020) 'Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) in public administration', Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1444.
• Ege, J., Bauer, M. W. and Wagner, N. (2019) 'Improving generalizability in transnational bureaucratic influence research : a (modest) proposal', International Studies Review, 22(3), pp. 551–575. doi: 10.1093/isr/viz026.
• Ege, J. (2019) 'Learning from the commission case : the comparative study of management change in international public administrations', Public Administration, 97(2), pp. 384–398. doi: 10.1111/padm.12546.
• Bauer, M. W., Ege, J. and Schomaker, R. (2018) 'The challenge of administrative internationalization : taking stock and looking ahead', International Journal of Public Administration, 42(11), pp. 904–917. doi: 10.1080/01900692.2018.1522642.

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

• Bauer, M. W. and Ege, J. (2026) 'Autonomy', in Trondal, J. (ed.) Research Handbook on International Bureaucracies. Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 235–247. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-36334.
• Bauer, M. W. and Ege, J. (2025) 'The autonomy of international bureaucracies', in Peters, B. G. (ed.) Handbook of bureaucratic autonomy : politics, resources, power. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 116–131. doi: 10.4337/9781803927046.00016.
• Ege, J., Bauer, M. W. and Wagner, N. (2025) 'How do international bureaucrats affect policy outputs? : studying administrative influence strategies in international organizations', in Capano, G., Craft, J., and Howlett, M. (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Policy Advisory Systems. New York: Routledge, pp. 160–173.
• Bauer, M. et al. (2024) 'Means of bureaucratic influence : the interplay between formal autonomy and informal styles in international bureaucracies', in Jörgens, H., Kolleck, N., and Well, M. (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. doi: 10.1017/9781009383486.002.
• Jankauskas, V., Eckhard, S. and Ege, J. (2023) 'Structured, focused comparison', in Badache, F., Kimber, L. R., and Maertens, L. (eds) International organizations and research methods : an introduction. University of Michigan Press, pp. 301–307. doi: 10.3998/mpub.11685289.
• Bauer, M. W., Ege, J. and Wagner, N. (2022) 'Conditions of influence : policy effects of IPA autonomy in comparative perspective', in Knill, C. and Steinebach, Y. (eds) International public administrations in global public policy : sources and effects of bureaucratic influence. London: Routledge, pp. 31–51. doi: 10.4324/9781003323297-4.
• Bauer, M. and Ege, J. (2022) 'No actorness without autonomy : researching IPAs' role in transnational policy-making', in Knill, C. and Steinebach, Y. (eds) International public administrations in global public policy : sources and effects of bureaucratic influence. London: Routledge, pp. 13–30. doi: 10.4324/9781003323297-3.
• Schomaker, R. M., Bauer, M. W. and Ege, J. (2019) 'Bureaucracy and Internationalization', in Farazmand, A. (ed.) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Cham: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3748-2.

Other publications

• Thomann, E., Ege, J. and Diez de Bonilla, A. (2025) 'Estudiando la implementación en el nivel de la calle por medio del marco del régimen de rendición de cuentas', in Laguna, M. I. D. and Benítez, A. C. (eds) Debates emergentes sobre administración y políticas públicas. FLACSO-México, pp. 167–192. doi: 10.2307/jj.31761188.9.
• Ege, J. (2022) 'International public administration and politics', in Ladner, A. and Sager, F. (eds) Handbook on the Politics of Public Administration. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 70–81.
• Bauer, M. W. et al. (2019) Perspectives on international public administration research : a rejoinder to Johan Christensen and Kutsal Yesilkagit. Oslo: ARENA Centre for European Studies. Available at: https://www.sv.uio.no/arena/english/research/publications/arena-working-papers/pdf/2011-2020/wp-1-19.pdf.

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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