Politics and public bureaucracies are increasingly challenged by a large number of external demands, resulting in a differentiated need for institutional adjustment. Crisis situations such as the global financial crisis and the sovereign debt crisis in the Eurozone, international reform efforts to modernize the public sector or specific national factors (e.g. energy transition, migration, integration, employment) represent challenges that political and administrative elites often cannot escape. In this context, a key question is how politicians and public administration respond to these challenges and to what extent adaptation efforts are characterized by stability or change: Do these actors respond by centralization or decentralization? What exactly do mechanisms of adaptation look like? For instance, can we observe national or policy-specific patterns? What are the effects and implications of political and administrative responses to external challenges? Young scholars from public administration, public management, organization research, policy analysis, comparative politics and adjacent fields are cordially invited to submit paper abstracts for this year's Annual Meeting of the Forum of Young State, Public Policy and Administration Scholars (FoJuS), the network for young scholars of the Standing Group on Policy Analysis and Public Administration of the German Political Science Association. The conference will provide a forum both for researchers in rather early stages (also outlines for PhD studies or individual chapters from a PhD study) as well as for the presentation of “final” results. Building on the positive experience of past meetings, we will organize several subject area specific panels and invite experienced colleagues (post docs and professors) to act as discussants. Similar to last year’s meeting, we will also organize at least one panel that is held completely in English (paper givers, discussant, chair, and floor discussion). Following the positive experience, we encourage junior researchers from outside of Germany to participate. We will also organize a “meet the editors”, during which (co-)editors of scholarly journals in Political Science and Public Administration will present their journals. Participants will also have the opportunity to discuss the submission and peer review process, as well as receiving first-hand advice on what makes a “good manuscript”. We ask for submission of abstracts (300 words, German or English) by 30th June 2014 by sending an email to Martina McCowan (martina.mccowan@gsi.uni-muenchen.de). The full papers should be available to the discussants no later than 20th November 2014. Best regards, Tobias Bach, Martina McCowan, and Stefan Thierse (FoJuS Management Committee)