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. and 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), pp. 120–129. doi: 10.5334/ssas.218.
• Hegele, Y. and Stoll, A. (2024) ‘What drives the adoption of agile government? Insights from Austria, Germany, and Switzerland’, Information Polity, 29(2), pp. 137–152. doi: 10.3233/IP-230055.
• Hegele, Y. et al. (2024) ‘Compliance with national standards of decentralized public services : the case of preschool services in Albania’, Public Administration and Development, 44(2), pp. 75–90. doi: 10.1002/pad.2037.
• Kryeziu, X., Pleger, L. E. and Hegele, Y. (2023) ‘Die Reduzierung des Datenschutzparadoxons durch persönliche Betroffenheit : ein Umfrageexperiment im Schweizer Kontext’, Swiss Yearbook of Administrative Sciences, 14(1), pp. 32–44. doi: 10.5334/ssas.179.
• Behnke, N. and 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), pp. 160–183. doi: 10.1111/ropr.12551.
• Schnabel, J., Freiburghaus, R. and 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), pp. 42–61. doi: 10.3224/dms.v15i1.10.
• Schnabel, J. and 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), pp. 537–569. doi: 10.1093/publius/pjab011.
• Moser, L., Andermatt, K. C. and 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), pp. 98–119. doi: 10.5334/ssas.162.
• Hegele, Y. and Schnabel, J. (2021) ‘Federalism and the management of the COVID-19 crisis : centralisation, decentralisation and (non-)coordination’, West European Politics, 44(5-6), pp. 1052–1076. doi: 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. doi: 10.1177/0952076720914361.
• Hegele, Y. (2018) ‘Explaining bureaucratic power in intergovernmental relations : a network approach’, Public Administration, 96(4), pp. 753–768. doi: 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), pp. 244–268. doi: 10.1093/publius/pjx052.
• Hegele, Y. and Behnke, N. (2017) ‘Horizontal coordination in cooperative federalism : the purpose of ministerial conferences in Germany’, Regional & Federal Studies, 27(5), pp. 529–548. doi: 10.1080/13597566.2017.1315716.
• Hegele, Y. (2016) ‘Procedurally reducing complexity : the practices of German EU policy coordination’, Federal Governance, 13(1), pp. 40–55. doi: 10.24908/fg.v13i1.5981.

Books, peer-reviewed

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

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

• Stoll, A. and Hegele, Y. (2025) ‘Die Bedeutung von Agilität im öffentlichen Sektor’, in Hegele, Y. and Stoll, A. (eds) Agiles Arbeiten im öffentlichen Sektor : Erfahrungen aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Wiesbaden: Springer, pp. 1–16. doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-48296-1_1.
• Hegele, Y. and Stoll, A. (2025) ‘Gesammelte Erkenntnisse zu Agilität im öffentlichen Sektor’, in Hegele, Y. and Stoll, A. (eds) Agiles Arbeiten im öffentlichen Sektor : Erfahrungen aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Wiesbaden: Springer, pp. 355–376. doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-48296-1_20.
• Hegele, Y. (2025) ‘Agile Teamstrukturen : die Einführung von Kompetenzpools in einer kantonalen Geoinformationsstelle’, in Hegele, Y. and Stoll, A. (eds) Agiles Arbeiten im öffentlichen Sektor : Erfahrungen aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Wiesbaden: Springer, pp. 283–291. doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-48296-1_15.
• Hegele, Y. and Schnabel, J. (2025) ‘Leadership of peak intergovernmental councils : a case study on the management of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany and Switzerland’, in Behnke, N. and Petersohn, B. (eds) Horizontal intergovernmental coordination at local and regional levels. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 399–409. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-83567-4_21.
• Hegele, Y. and Lang, A. (2022) ‘Wie können kollaborative E-Government Projekte gelingen? : Lessons Learned aus zwei Projekten im Kanton Zürich’, in Pleger, L. E. and Mertes, A. (eds) Digitale Transformation der öffentlichen Verwaltung in der Schweiz : Stand, Entwicklungslinien und Praxisbeispiele. Wiesbaden: Springer, pp. 195–217. doi: 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’, in 5th ECPR Graduate Student Conference, Innsbruck, 3-5 July 2014.

Other publications

• Pleger, L., Hegele, Y. and Hasler, S. (2025) Die Wirkung von Öffentlichen Bibliotheken im Kanton Zürich. Winterthur: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-33619.
• Hegele, Y. and Behnke, N. (2019) Hypotheses testing with a small N : an example from federalism research. London: Sage. doi: 10.4135/9781526478009.
• Hegele, Y. and 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), pp. 263–284. doi: 10.3224/dms.v11i2.03.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

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

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