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Curriculum Vitae

ACADEMIC RECORD

Current Position

Chair in Political Systems and European Integration, Departement of Political Science - Geschwister-Scholl-Institute, University of Munich - LMU, since April 2013

Previous Positions

Founding Spokesperson (Gründungssprecher), DFG Research Training Group (Graduiertenkolleg) "Wicked Problems, Contested Administrations: Knowledge, Coordination, Strategy", November 2011 - March 2013

Chair in German and European Politics and Government, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Potsdam, 2006 – March 2013

Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader in Government, Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), 1992-2006

Research Officer, Centre for European Studies, Nuffield College, Oxford, 1991-1992

Research Fellow, Post-Graduate School of Public Administration, German University of Administrative Sciences, Speyer, 1989-1991

Visiting Appointments

Visiting Professor, Sciences Po, University of Bordeaux, February 2012

Guest Professor, European Forum, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, February 2011

Participating Scholar, Kolleg-Forschergruppe ‘The Transformative Power of Europe, Free University Berlin, 2008 - 2012

Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow, European University Institute, Florence, March- July 2008

Visiting Fellow, European Institute, LSE, 2006-2009

Visiting Professor, Institute of Advanced Studies, Vienna, March 2006

Visiting Professor, Institute for Social Sciences, University of Tokyo, September-December 2005

Visiting Professor of Comparative Government, Institute for Social Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, April-September 2000

Education

DPhil, Political Science, Nuffield College, University of Oxford, 1991

MSc in the Politics and Government of Western Europe (with distinction), Department of Government, LSE, 1986

Courses in Political Science and Italian, University of Massachusetts, USA, 1984-1985

Intermediate degree in Political Science and Italian, University of Tübingen, 1982-1984

Current and Most Recent Research Grants

Resource Mobilisation in International Administrations, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), 1 July 2017, for three years.

The Timescapes of International Administrations: Time Rules and Time Horizons of Planning and Budgeting, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), project start 1 June 2014, planned duration: three years

Staggered Membership Renewal and Differential Time Horizons in Second Chambers: Comparing Patterns and Effects, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG); project start 1 July 2013, planned duration: three years

Previous Grants for Research, Workshops and Conferences

Anglo-German Foundation

British Academy

Economic and Social Research Council - ESRC

Ernst & Young (Poland)

EU-Consent

Friedrich Ebert Foundation

German Academic Exchange Service - DAAD

Goethe Institute London

Government Department, LSE

Konrad Adenauer Foundation

Nuffield Foundation

STICERD – LSE

University of Potsdam

Volkswagen Foundation

Research in progress

Staggered Membership Renewal and Differential Time Horizons in Second Chambers: Comparing Patterns and Effects, DFG-funded research project including Germany, France, Australia and Japan, start in July 2013, planned duration: three years

Timescapes of International Administrations: Time Rules and Time Horizons of Planning and Budgeting, DFG-funded project to start in June 2014

Resource Mobilisation in International Administrations, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), 1 July 2017, for three years.

TEACHING

Undergraduate Courses

Politics, Government and Public Policy in Germany, lecture series and classes, LSE

Introduction to Comparative Politics, lecture series and classes, Humboldt University Berlin (in German)

German Politics in its European Context, lecture series and classes, Potsdam (in German)

European Integration, LMU (in German)

Europeanisation: Transforming National Political Systems, LMU (in German)

Introduction to German Politics, LMU (classes in German and English)

Introduction to Comparative Politics, lecture series and seminars, LMU (in German and English)

Graduate Courses

The Political Economy of Transition in Europe, lecture series and seminars, LSE

European Politics and Policy: Comparative Analysis, lecture series and seminars, LSE

Europeanisation: The Comparative Politics of Domestic Change, seminars, LSE

Government and Politics in Germany, seminars, LSE

Public Policy in Germany, seminars, LSE

The New Institutionalism, seminars, Humboldt University Berlin (in German)

How Does Government Work? Comparative Analysis, seminars, Humboldt University Berlin (in German)

The Europeanisation of National Political Systems, seminars, Potsdam (in English)

The Temporality of Politics, seminars, Potsdam (in English)

PhD Courses

Europeanisation, Institute of Advanced Studies Vienna (in English)

Institutions and Policies: Patterns of Reciprocity, Potsdam (in English)

PhD Supervision

PhD students who completed under my supervision include Thomas Dyson, Andre Hein, Romy Hermawan, Alexander Jäkel, Laszlo Kovats, Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling, Ronny Patz, Fabian Richter, Michael Romanos, Vijajakala Seevaratnam, Lori Thorlakson, Hennig v. Wittich, Radoslaw Zubek

I currently supervise Rainer Bühling, Alexander Stepanyan, Veronika Ohliger, Chan Ka-Ming, Mahmut Mazlum

I was the Founding Spokesperson of the DFG Research Training Group “Wicked Problems, Contested Administrations” at Potsdam

Habilitation Examining

First examiner: Sabine Kuhlmann, 2007, then Potsdam; Viktoria Kaina, then Potsdam, 2008; Michael Koß, LMU, 2018 (procedure ongoing)

Second examiner: Pawel Karolewski, then Potsdam, 2008; Eugenia Conceicao-Heldt, then Humboldt University Berlin, 2009; Christian Schweiger, Chemnitz, 2016; Simon Franzmann, Düsseldorf, 2017

External Examining

External PhD examiner at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Sussex

External Examiner, MSc in European Public Policy, School of Public Policy, University College London, 2002-2005

External Appointments Committees

I have served as an external member of appointment committees at the Universities of Konstanz and Innsbruck, and have frequently been asked to act as external referee in appointment procedures in Germany and in promotion procedures in the UK, Ireland and Denmark.

SERVICES TO THE PROFESSION

University Administration

LSE

Convenor, MSc in European Politics and Policy, 1996-2004

Member, Departmental Standing Committee, 1996-2004

Member, Academic Planning and Resources Committee, 1998-2001

Member on numerous appointment committees and other minor departmental and School committees

Potsdam

Elected Faculty Member of the Senate, University of Potsdam, 2012-2013

Dean, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, 2009-2011

Deputy Dean, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, 2007-2009

Spokesperson, DFG Research Training Group, 2011-2013

Spokesperson, Political Science Group, 2008-2013

Official Representative, ECPR, 2006-2013

Member and chair of numerous professorial appointment committees, faculty and university committees

LMU

Official Representative, ECPR, 2013-

Member of professorial appointment committees and departmental committees

Spokesperson, Research Initiative “Dynamic Power Constellations”, 2018-

Journals, Conference Organisation, Associations

Co-editor, West European Politics, since 2000

Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Public Policy, 2010 - 2014

Member, Editorial Board, Croatian and Comparative Public Administration, since 2010

Local Organiser, ECPR General Conference September 2009 (2,300 participants), Potsdam

Local Organiser, Conference ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments 2016, Bavarian State Parliament, 2016

Member, ECPR Executive Committee, 2012-2018

Chair, Selection Committee, Stein Rokkan Prize, 2012-2018

Academic Co-Convenor, ECPR General Conference, Bordeaux (2013), Glasgow (2014), Montreal (2015), Prague (2016), Oslo (2017)

Consultancy

Occasional consultant, World Bank, Poverty Reduction & Economic Management Department on institutional policy in Central and Eastern Europe (comparative privatisation policy, comparative civil service policy), 1991-2001

Occasional academic consultant, OECD-SIGMA, on institutional policy in Central and Eastern Europe, Turkey and Morocco. Projects on public management profiles in Central and Eastern Europe; centres of government; parliamentary institutional capacity in Romania; civil service policy in Bulgaria and Romania, parliamentary reform in Turkey, Morocco, Kosovo, Montenegro; parliamentary control of the executive. Since 1996

Occasional academic consultant, Potsdam Centre for Policy and Management – PCPM. Training programmes for civil servants from Thailand and the Balkans. Participation is establishing university-based public administration training in Afghanistan. Participation in a GIZ Project on the Civil Service in Afghanistan and GIZ Project on the Afghan Office of the Presidency.

Article Referee

British Journal of Political Science

Comparative European Politics

Comparative Political Studies

EU Politics

Europe-Asia Studies

European Journal of Political Research

European Union Politics

Governance: An International Journal of Policy and Administration

Government & Opposition

International Relations

International Review of Administrative Sciences

Journal of Common Market Studies

Journal of European Integration

Journal of European Public Policy

Journal of Politics

Journal of Public Policy

Party Politics

Policy & Society

Policy Studies Journal

Political Studies

Politische Vierteljahreschrift

Politics

Public Administration

Review of International Studies

Scandinavian Political Studies

Time & Society

Yearbook of European Administrative History

West European Politics

 

Manuscript Reviewer

Oxford University Press

Palgrave

Routledge

Grant Reviewer

Austrian Academy of Science

European Science Foundation

Economic and Social Research Council (UK)

Federal Foundation for Peace Research (Germany)

German Research Foundation – DFG (including Begehung SFB Bremen and SFB Mannheim)

Leverhulme Trust (UK)

Thyssen Foundation (Germany)

Volkswagen Foundation (Germany)

 


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