Research and lecture profile

Comparative Public Policy

Topics:
Policy convergence and policy diffusion
Europeanisation of national policies
Policy change and policy retrenchment


Policy areas:
Moral Policy
Environment Policy
Higher Education Policy
Structural Policy

Geographical focus:
European Union
OECD area
Central and Eastern Europe
Lantin America

Comparative Administrative Science

Topics:
International Public Administration
Europeanisation of national administrations
Public Sector Reform
Management reforms in international organisations
Patterns of attitude of administrative elites

Geographical focus:
European Union
International Organisations
OECD area
Central and Eastern Europe
Developing and newly industrialized countries

Current research projects

• Comparative Analysis of Moral Policy Change
• Confronting Social and Environmental Sustainability with Economic Pressure: Balancing Trade-offs by Policy Dismantling? (CONSENSUS)
• National conditions of cross-national policy convergence in the context of the Bologna-Process
• Center of Excellence 16: Transnational Public Administration
• Management Reforms in International and Supranational Organisations

Completed research projects

• Decentralisation following the Reform of the European Commission: Evaluation and Perception
• Comparing Higher Education Policy in Central and Eastern Europe: Convergence or Divergence?
• Environment and the Single Market
• Factors of Policy Change: The Impact of Transnational Policy Learning and Domestic Veto Players in Environmental Policy
• Governance Preferences in the EU Multilevel System
• Politikbeendigung und Politikabbau
• Expert Survey "Modernisation of administration organisation and of administrative procedures in the environment protection"
• Envipolcon: Environmental Policy Convergence in Europe