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)