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            <title><![CDATA[Einleitung Problemaufriss]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This introduction offers a conceptual framework for analyzing stress within public administration from a historical perspective. It argues for a broad and social constructivist understanding of stress, attentive to historical contexts. While stress is often associated with modern Western societies, the contribution argues for a wider geographical and temporal frame. Key elements of such a broader definition of stress include a substantial workload that requires higher than usual effort of individuals or organizations, creates pressure and is articulated as such. The contribution considers various analytical perspectives and considers closely related concepts such as ›crisis‹ and ›turbulence‹ and outlines the analytical value of the concept of ›stress‹: It has the potential to integrate macro-(crisis), meso-(turbulence) and micro-levels of analysis as societal discourses, organizational structures as well as practices and individual perceptions shape historical phenomena of stress.The contribution suggests sharpening the analysis of stress by distinguishing between the following dimensions: individual and organizational stress; subjective perceptions and objective indicators of an increased workload; external and internal stressors; ›strong‹ and ›weak‹ forms of statehood.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Über die Nebenwirkungen behördlicher Personalentscheidungen. Solidarität und Intrigen im Mindener Kammerkollegium]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The subject of investigation is a distinct type of administrative organization: the council collegium in the federal administration of Minden. In 1764, a personnel decision made in the head office in Berlin disrupted the harmonious working environment of the authority. In relation to the overarching theme of the journal volume, the essay puts forward a paradoxical thesis: the council prevented stress by causing stress. It resisted the decision from the ministerial administration in order to maintain cohesion within the plenary body - and thus its ability to make decisions.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Stress und »Neurasthenie« in der altösterreichischen staatlich-politischen Verwaltung Dalmatiens im Ersten Weltkrieg]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The outbreak of the First World War in 1914 posed significant administrative challenges for the Dalmatian state administration. Reports by the governor Marius Attems to the government in Vienna identified various stress factors, like excessive workload, inadequate salaries, and the loss of civil servants to military service. Other burdens included malnutrition, inflation, mobilisation tasks, refugee care, supply agendas, internal irregularities and preparations for an invasion of Entente forces. These factors substantially impacted civil servants’ health, with many experiencing symptoms similar to modern-day burnout (called »neurasthenia« then). In response, Attems implemented personnel measures to alleviate the situation, such as bringing back civil servants from the military administration, retiring those who were sick or unfit, and providing convalescent leave. Despite these challenges, the Dalmatian state administration remained functional until the end of the monarchy.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[An Imperial Bureaucracy under Stress: The first Napoleonic Empire, 1799–1814, as an Exercise in Stress under Crisis]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Napoleonic episode in European history was a perpetual crisis of war and dislocation, a prolonged exercise in stress across European society which engulfed the conquered populations of the empire and the bureaucracy set to rule over them. The Napoleonic bureaucracy is increasingly evaluated in terms of an imperial bureaucracy. Bureaucracy stood at the heart of the Napoleonic state. Historians’ attention has inevitably been drawn to the inter-action of French and non-French administrators, and to the impact of specific Napoleonic policies and practices on the non-French subjects of the empire, in which stress was intrinsic, and so an essential conceptual tool.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Administration in Habsburg Austria During the Badeni Riots of 1897]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The riots of 1897 accentuated divides in the society. One of the most visible conflicts erupted between the Habsburg Austrian state administration and self-government. Although existing since the 1860s, the Badeni crisis accentuated the discontent. Local cooperation was essential for maintaining order but often failed due to differing goals, political pressures, and poor communication. Despite broad authority, the state authorities could not rule autocratically. As individuals, district captains relied on local support, exposing the limits of their power. These struggles revealed a shift toward the participatory style of governance, which was driven by societal change and mass politics of Cisleithania.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Einheitsstress? – Das Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit und die Bundesanstalt für Arbeit im Spannungsverhältnis zwischen »Volkes Wille« und Verwaltungsauftrag im Epochenjahr 1989/90]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The study examines how the Federal Employment Agency (Bundesanstalt für Arbeit, BA) and the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit, BMU) coped with the pressures of German reunification in 1989/90. It analyzes how both institutions faced unprecedented organizational stress from political, social, and administrative challenges. The BA struggled with soaring unemployment and mass migration, while the BMU focused on environmental cooperation and the creation of a ›environmental union.‹ By comparing strategies, resources, and stress responses, the paper highlights how these institutions shaped and adapted to the transformative period of unification.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The OEEC and NATO Secretariats in the Early 1950s. Convergence and Divergence around Economic Co-operation and Rearmament]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[At the beginning of the 1950s, two Atlantic institutions, the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), converged and nearly merged over the issues of economic co-operation and rearmament. This article seeks to explore this process ›inside-out‹, from the perspective of the international officials and diplomats who executed it. It demonstrates how the OEEC Secretariat, under the leadership of Secretary-General Robert Marjolin, managed to prevent the organisation from being absorbed by the military alliance; and, in turn, infused the NATO Secretariat with its bureaucratic procedures and economic competences.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The shock of the War and the advent of technocracy. The archipelago State and the birth of economic public bodies in Italy]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The article considers the transformations in Italian public administration induced by the Great War. In particular, it focuses on the birth and spread of economic public bodies that changed the relationship between state and market between the two wars; they introduced a new organizational formula parallel to ordinary public administration; they redesigned the relationship between public and private sector; they created a technocratic elite that went through fascism and played a fundamental role in the first phase of the republic. The Italian State, with the birth of public bodies, suffered a flight from the center of government administration in favor of new financial and industrial administrations which played a central role in the economy and politics for decades. Thus, it was born the archipelago state and the government through public bodies which characterized the first fifty years of republican history and whose influences on the Italian political system are still evident today.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Those Who Count: International and National Administration of the League’s 1922 Census on Displaced Persons from the Russian Empire]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Confronted with dramatic numbers of refugees from the collapsed Russian empire, national bureaucracies and emerging international organisations struggled to provide an adequate response. In 1922, the High Commission for Russian Refugees organized and carried out a census, collecting data on the population and labour potential of refugees. The following article reconstructs this unique experiment in multilateral cooperation between local bureaucracies, humanitarian organisations, and the League. Strategic decisions on the design of the census, dictated by the Commission’s lack of staff and their resorting to experts who were liable for other humanitarian players, affected the census and yielded results hardly usable for effective relief action.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sentiments of Crisis: A Catalyst for Bureaucratic Transformation and Digitalisation]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This paper proposes the concept of »sentiment of crisis« as a collective affective and cognitive response that can trigger rapid institutional change in, for example, state bureaucracies. Timm Sureau argues that the refugee crisis 2015 in Germany led to an administrative crisis within the IT department of Germany’s Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), triggering a shared sentiment of crisis among its employees. Leveraging Turner’s theory of ritual, Sureau examines how this sentiment created a transitional phase during which old bureaucratic procedures were temporarily suspended and new technological innovations were introduced. Failing to attract sufficient IT staff, BAMF resorted to outsourcing programming and maintenance to external IT companies. The post-crisis ›new normal‹, therefore also included a quasi-permanent dependency on IT companies. Drawing on Blumenberg’s concept of technicisation, Sureau demonstrates how this process of institutional change produced a new, seemingly self-evident reality, where recently introduced technologies – and dependencies – became accepted as a matter of fact. The paper contributes to understanding the complex interplay between crises, collective emotions, technological innovation, and institutional change.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Official Cultures &amp; Literary Worlds of Nineteenth Century Provincial Administrators in Company India]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This article reads the official and literary output of two underresearched English East India Company officials, John Briggs and William Browne Hockley, who served in India in the early nineteenth century. Reading unpublished archives alongside published literary works provides insights into how the Company’s officialdom in provincial western India was experienced and projected by these British men. Beyond portrayals of colonial officialdom, this article also examines how Briggs and Hockley variously attempted to use literature to reinvent themselves. This article calls for greater attention to the study of juxtaposed official and literary sources as a method to reveal the underlying logics and frameworks of colonial rule, which continue to animate and shape postcolonial bureaucracies.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Das Büro und seine Kreativabteilung Eine Führung durch die Räume der Fernsehserie »Mad Men«]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Based on the floor plan of the fictional New York advertising agency »Sterling Cooper«, the article deals with the fundamental conflicts of the television series »Mad Men«. The focus is on the copywriters who work on the image of the product in order to give it a story in the cycle of supply and demand. Office space and the experiences of office workers are inextricably linked in the creative process. The office, which as a place of orderly processes even seeks to generate the irrational, the creative idea, in a calculated way, becomes a hub of mystery and desire, which prove to be the actual motors of the series’ plot.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sicher auf Sand. Niklas Luhmann, Legitimation durch Verfahren (1969/21975) – Eine Relektüre]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Only few books are as fundamental to Luhmann’s understanding of political inclusion as his »Legitimation durch Verfahren«, and few have been read so superficially and misunderstood in their intention. It is not about a kind of legal standardization of political discourses, and it is not about a technocracy of decision-making processes. Rather, this book is about committing political controversies to an objectivity that makes defeats acceptable by preserving the dignity of the losers – and in this way keeps the future of politics open.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Laufbahnen. Zwei Bilder verwalteter Welten in literarischer Begleitung: »Karriere« (A. Paul Weber) und »Abwärts-Aufwärts« (Uwe Pfeifer)]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Following his book »Verwaltete Welten« (2013) and the therein discussed »basic aesthetic forms of visualizing public administration» (horizon, door, bench) taken from European painting, the author focuses on another basic form in this essay: the staircase. After an overview of art-historically significant representations of stairs, two lithographs published in 1968 and 1994 are presented, which use stairs to illustrate the hierarchical functioning of political and administrative career systems. They are accompanied by thematically appropriate literary texts from the 17th to the 21st centuries (e. g. Grimmelshausen, Knigge, Tucholsky, Menasse). While Weber’s picture ironically follows an unquestioning perspective of advancement, Pfeifer’s picture shows its profound disruption in an unsettling way. Constant is a criticism of careers in which concern for one’s own well-being masquerades as concern for the common good.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mitschrift revisited: Hans Joachim Schädlichs »Papier und Bleistift« (1971)]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Joachim Schädlich's »Papier und Bleistift« (1971) is a story of creation ex scriptura, which, without preconditions, produces, observes and changes a bureaucracy. This written world is added to the real world and the written writing enables transfers between literature, writing and the world. The transcript mode in the present tense splits into a double protocol; a latent algorithm with start and stop rules and recursions, the renunciation of hypotaxis and the narrative metalepses characterize the text and also make it readable in literary history. This leads to a revision of the concept ›Mitschrift‹, first introduced by the author in »In Vertretung. Literarische Mitschriften von Bürokratie zwischen früher Neuzeit und Gegenwart« (2004).]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Rational Scribbling: Bureaucratic Mythologies in Saltykov-Shchedrin’s »The Golovlevs«]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin’s novel »The Golovlevs« (1880) not only critiques the Russian gentry family, but also the shift from an agrarian economy to an urban bureaucracy in the period before and during the Great Reforms. Drawing on his experiences in the civil service and adopting Slavic folklore as a mirror, Saltykov-Shchedrin identifies the ways in which excessive administrative documentation snowballs into a governmental network of Heideggerian idle talk that produces social myths and arbitrary material power. In the post-Great Reforms era bureaucracy, Saltykov-Shchedrin contends that problems of irrationality and arbitrary authority persist, undermining the reforms by producing only emptiness.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Schreibwohnung, Akten und Archiv. Literarisches paperwork bei Elfriede Jelinek und Friederike Mayröcker]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[By archiving literary material while the author is still alive – whether as a 〉Vorlass〈 in the literary archive or as (fictional) files of a public authority – administration and literature merge into archival poetics. These are characterized by observation scenarios: While Elfriede Jelinek in »Angabe der Person« (2022) takes a tax procedure as a starting point to create destructive fantasies about her (fictitious) 〉Nachlass〈 and combines the bureaucratic requirements of a life story with those of literary writing, Friederike Mayröcker’s text »Archiv« (2005) raises questions about the institution and the conditions of writing, which can be traced back to her apartment.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Der verwaltete Souverän. Kleists Michael Kohlhaas und die preußischen Reformen]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Kleist's Kohlhaas is often considered a literary investigation into questions of legal theory. However, the novella centers around cases of misapplication of the law. Kleist spells out precisely the problems the Prussian reformers around 1800 ascribed to Frederick William's wildly rampant administration. What preoccupied him, was the imminent transformation from a princely to an administrative state with new forms of speech, writing and style. But if his Kohlhaas is a mouthpiece for the Prussian reform program, he is not exercising a ›critique of bureaucracy‹. Rather, he calls for a modern administration that adheres to the bureaucratic principle of written record-keeping.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Cabinet of Bureaucratic Wonders]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The »Cabinet of Bureaucratic Wonders« (CBW) is a collection of mundane, yet wondrous artifacts found in public sector facilities and co-curated by public servants in Brazil and in the United States. At once an institution, an archive, and an intervention, the CBW draws from design anthropology methods to invite participants to productive encounters with bureaucratic artifacts through interviews, cultural probes, workshops, and site-specific installations. This paper focuses on the CBW instantiation with the Brazilian National School of Public Administration to discuss broader contributions in revealing the agency of sociomaterial infrastructures and engaging with public institutions as porous sites of transformation.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Zihals Zahlen. Geschäftszahlen als Orientierungspunkte in einer bürokratischen Welt]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Doderer’s novel »Die erleuchteten Fenster« is read as a literary commentary on the use of ›small forms‹ in bureaucratic practices, the subjectivity of civil servants and the lack of a culture of responsibility in public administration. From this perspective, the profiling of the former Amtsrat Zihal appears as a reflection on the position of subjects in modern, highly developed organizations. What imprints were left by decades of bureaucratic practice, the regular reading of the Dienstpragmatik as a normative regulation of public service and the daily use of business figures to organize the official world reference? Doderer makes the shaping of personality by organizations comprehensible – as the appropriation and translation of an organization’s behavioral expectations and references to reality.]]></description>
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