Dr. Yvonne Hegele

Work at ZHAW

Position

Lecturer

Focus

• Administrative Coordination and policy coherence
• Intergovernmental Relations and federalism
• Collaborative Governance and Stakeholder Involvement
• Agility in the public sector

Experience

• Resarch Stay
  Center on Constituional Change, University of Edinburgh
  01 / 2019 - 04 / 2019
• Senior Researcher
  LCSS, Unviersity of Hannover
  05 / 2018 - 12 / 2018

Education and Continuing education

Education

• Dr.rer.soc / Politics and Public Management
  University of Konstanz
  04 / 2014 - 05 / 2018
• Master of Arts / Politics and Public Management
  University of Konstanz
  09 / 2012 - 03 / 2014

Continuing Education

• Hermes Edition 2022 Foundation
  ZHAW
  03 / 2024
• Certificate of Higher Education Didactics
  Baden-Württemberg, University of Konstanz
  03 / 2018

Network

Membership of networks

Swiss Political Science Association

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-1567-0317

Projects

• The Relevance and Success of Co-Production in Local Governance / Team member / ongoing
• Measuring the impact of libraries in the canton of Zurich / Co-project leader / completed
• Mapping Digital Governance in a Swiss Canton / Co-project leader / completed
• Agility in the public sector in Germany, Austria and Switzerland / Project leader / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Thaler, L., & Hegele, Y. (2024). Polizeiorganisation in mittelgrossen Städten und Gemeinden in der Schweiz : Chancen und Risiken der Interkommunalen Zusammenarbeit. Swiss Yearbook of Administrative Sciences, 15(1), 120–129. https://doi.org/10.5334/ssas.218
• Hegele, Y., & Stoll, A. (2024). What drives the adoption of agile government? Insights from Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. Information Polity, 29(2), 137–152. https://doi.org/10.3233/IP-230055
• Hegele, Y., Karakaçi, V., Lang, A., & Mushani, A. (2024). Compliance with national standards of decentralized public services : the case of preschool services in Albania. Public Administration and Development, 44(2), 75–90. https://doi.org/10.1002/pad.2037
• Kryeziu, X., Pleger, L. E., & Hegele, Y. (2023). Die Reduzierung des Datenschutzparadoxons durch persönliche Betroffenheit : ein Umfrageexperiment im Schweizer Kontext. Swiss Yearbook of Administrative Sciences, 14(1), 32–44. https://doi.org/10.5334/ssas.179
• Behnke, N., & Hegele, Y. (2023). Achieving cross‐sectoral policy integration in multilevel structures : loosely coupled coordination of “energy transition” in the German “Bundesrat”. Review of Policy Research, 41(1), 160–183. https://doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12551
• Schnabel, J., Freiburghaus, R., & Hegele, Y. (2022). Crisis management in federal states : the role of peak intergovernmental councils in Germany and Switzerland during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Dms – Der Moderne Staat – Zeitschrift Für Public Policy, Recht Und Management, 15(1), 42–61. https://doi.org/10.3224/dms.v15i1.10
• Moser, L., Andermatt, K. C., & Hegele, Y. (2021). Home sweet Home? : Erkenntnisse zu Homeoffice in den Zürcher Gemeindeverwaltungen während der Covid-19 Pandemie. Swiss Yearbook of Administrative Sciences, 12(1), 98–119. https://doi.org/10.5334/ssas.162
• Schnabel, J., & Hegele, Y. (2021). Explaining intergovernmental coordination during the COVID-19 Pandemic : responses in Australia, Canada, Germany, and Switzerland. Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 51(4), 537–569. https://doi.org/10.1093/publius/pjab011
• Hegele, Y., & Schnabel, J. (2021). Federalism and the management of the COVID-19 crisis : centralisation, decentralisation and (non-)coordination. West European Politics, 44(5-6), 1052–1076. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2021.1873529
• Hegele, Y. (2020). The impact of department structure on policy-making : how portfolio combinations affect interdepartmental coordination. Public Policy and Administration. https://doi.org/10.1177/0952076720914361
• Hegele, Y. (2018). Explaining bureaucratic power in intergovernmental relations : a network approach. Public Administration, 96(4), 753–768. https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12537
• Hegele, Y. (2017). Multidimensional interests in horizontal intergovernmental coordination : the case of the German Bundesrat. Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 48(2), 244–268. https://doi.org/10.1093/publius/pjx052
• Hegele, Y., & Behnke, N. (2017). Horizontal coordination in cooperative federalism : the purpose of ministerial conferences in Germany. Regional & Federal Studies, 27(5), 529–548. https://doi.org/10.1080/13597566.2017.1315716
• Hegele, Y. (2016). Procedurally reducing complexity : the practices of German EU policy coordination. Federal Governance, 13(1), 40–55. https://doi.org/10.24908/fg.v13i1.5981

Books, peer-reviewed

Hegele, Y., & Stoll, A. (2026). Agiles Arbeiten im öffentlichen Sektor : Erfahrungen aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (1. Auflage). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-48296-1

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

• Hegele, Y., & Stoll, A. (2025). Gesammelte Erkenntnisse zu Agilität im öffentlichen Sektor. In Y. Hegele & A. Stoll (eds.), Agiles Arbeiten im öffentlichen Sektor : Erfahrungen aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (pp. 355–376). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-48296-1_20
• Stoll, A., & Hegele, Y. (2025). Die Bedeutung von Agilität im öffentlichen Sektor. In Y. Hegele & A. Stoll (eds.), Agiles Arbeiten im öffentlichen Sektor : Erfahrungen aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (pp. 1–16). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-48296-1_1
• Hegele, Y. (2025). Agile Teamstrukturen : die Einführung von Kompetenzpools in einer kantonalen Geoinformationsstelle. In Y. Hegele & A. Stoll (eds.), Agiles Arbeiten im öffentlichen Sektor : Erfahrungen aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (pp. 283–291). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-48296-1_15
• Hegele, Y., & Schnabel, J. (2025). Leadership of peak intergovernmental councils : a case study on the management of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany and Switzerland. In N. Behnke & B. Petersohn (Eds.), Horizontal intergovernmental coordination at local and regional levels (pp. 399–409). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-83567-4_21
• Hegele, Y., & Lang, A. (2022). Wie können kollaborative E-Government Projekte gelingen? : Lessons Learned aus zwei Projekten im Kanton Zürich. In L. E. Pleger & A. Mertes (eds.), Digitale Transformation der öffentlichen Verwaltung in der Schweiz : Stand, Entwicklungslinien und Praxisbeispiele (pp. 195–217). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-36591-2_9

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

Hegele, Y. (2014). Coordination by the core executives of the Länder : an analytical framework. 5th ECPR Graduate Student Conference, Innsbruck, 3-5 July 2014.

Other publications

• Pleger, L., Hegele, Y., & Hasler, S. (2025). Die Wirkung von Öffentlichen Bibliotheken im Kanton Zürich. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-33619
• Hegele, Y., & Behnke, N. (2019). Hypotheses testing with a small N : an example from federalism research. Sage. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781526478009
• Hegele, Y., & Radtke, I. (2018). Verwaltung als Akteur ‒ Akteure in der Verwaltung : aktuelle Beiträge zur Debatte. dms – der moderne staat – Zeitschrift für Public Policy, Recht und Management, 11(2), 263–284. https://doi.org/10.3224/dms.v11i2.03

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• Hegele, Y., & Stoll, A. (2023). Agility in public administrations : a solution to what problems? IRSPM Conference 2023, Budapest, Hungary, 3-5 April 2023.
• Hegele, Y. (2018, September 5). The effects of portfolio allocation on the intergovernmental coordination process. Annual Conference - the European Group for Public Administration (EGPA), Lausanne, 5-7 September 2018.
• Hegele, Y. (2016, July 26). Strategic coalition formation in intergovernmental relations. IPSA Conference, Poznan, Poland, 26 July 2016.
• Behnke, N., & Hegele, Y. (2015). Brokers, moderators or protectors against federal encroachment? : the role of ‘Landesministerkonferenzen’ in Germany. IPSA RCs Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, 16-18 September 2015.
• Hegele, Y. (2015). Horizontal bureaucratic networks : structure and effect of relations in Germany subnational coordination. EGPA PhD Symposium, Toulouse, France, 24-25 August 2015.

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