Knowledge Management in a Political Context: A Case Study About the Members of the German Bundestag

René M. Mittelstädt ()
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René M. Mittelstädt: University of Finance and Administration

A chapter in Eurasian Business and Economics Perspectives, 2022, pp 93-107 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This paper investigates how Members of the German Bundestag manage their individual knowledge relevant for policy making, using original data collected in a standardized quantitative online survey in early 2021. About five percent of the 709 Members of Parliament from all seven parties currently represented responded, granting a first insight into a western parliament. The main points of the survey dealt with the prior knowledge of the MPs, their familiarization phase, the support from the parties and the parliamentary administration and the organization of the MPs’ offices. The results support earlier research which stated that knowledge in parliaments tends to be tacit, informal, and not recorded. Only 37 percent of the MPs felt well prepared for their future tasks when they took office. Only 25 percent received an orderly handover by their predecessor. Accordingly, 97 percent of those questioned agreed with the thesis that loss of knowledge within parliament is a major problem. I conclude that knowledge is not systematically archived and evaluated in current politics. This is a disadvantage, especially for inexperienced MPs. Building on this, I discuss a first proposal for a political knowledge management model.

Keywords: Crisis management; Data; Knowledge management; Members of Parliament; Policy making (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-94672-2_6

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