Dr. Ronny Patz

Vita

Ronny Patz is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Chair in Political Systems and European Integration at the Department of Political Science (Geschwister-Scholl-Institute) at the University of Munich. In his research at LMU Munich, which is part of the multi-project DFG Research Unit "International Public Administration", Ronny has focused on budgeting in international organisations, in particular in the United Nations system. A Global Policy special issue on "Resourcing International Organizations" co-edited by Klaus H. Goetz and Ronny Patz was published in 2017; a book on UN system budgeting is in production with Oxford University Press.

Currently, Ronny is working on resource mobilisation by UN system organisations in the domain of forced migration and refugee policy – in particular UNHCR, UNRWA and IOM – together with Prof. Dr. Klaus H. Goetz and Dr. Svanhildur Thorvaldsdottir.

Before joining LMU in June 2014, Ronny worked at the EU Office of Transparency International in Brussels (since 2012) on the transparency, integrity and accountability of EU institutions closely following the 2014 EU elections. He was the co-author of the TI study on "The European Union Integrity System" (2014).

Ronny has studied political science at Freie Universität Berlin as well as Central and Eastern European transitions at Tartu Ülikool (Estonia). During and after his studies, he has worked for the Estonian Ministry of Education, for the German EU Council Presidency at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg and in pre-electoral assistance at the Council of Europe Field Office in Moldova.

In 2009, he joined Potsdam University (Germany) as an academic assistant, doctoral research and lecturer, teaching courses on political science methods and on the German political system in the European context. He received his PhD from Potsdam University in 2014. In his dissertation, he used quantitative network analysis to study how leaks of EU documents were distributed among interest groups in EU fisheries policies. Follow-up research on EU leaks prevention by the Euroepean Commission, which complements this dissertation research, has been published in West European Politics in 2018.

Since 2008, he has also been a blogger on European affairs and and academic research. His blog can be found at http://polscieu.ideasoneurope.eu. He is also tweeting as @ronpatz.

Recent publications

• Patz, R. (2017) Leaking, leak prevention, and decoupling in public administrations: the case of the European Commission, West European Politics. 
• Goetz, K. H.; Patz R. (2017) Resourcing International Organizations: Resource Diversification, Organizational Differentiation, and Administrative Governance, Global Policy, 8(S5), 5-14.
• Patz, R. and Goetz, K.H. (2017) Changing budgeting administration in international organizations: budgetary pressures, complex principals and administrative leadership, in Knill, Christoph; Bauer, Michael; Eckhard, Steffen (eds.) International Bureaucracies: Challenges and Lessons for Public Administration Research (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan).
• Patz, R. (2016) Just the TTIP of the iceberg? Dynamics and effects of information leaks in EU politics, in: European Journal of Risk Regulation, 7(2).
• Goetz, K.H.; Patz, R. (2016) Pressured budgets and the European Commission: towards a more centralised EU budget administration?, Journal of European Public Policy, 23(7).

Selected functions at conferences and workshops

• Section Chair (with Steffen Eckhard) "21st Century International Bureaucracy: People, Power, and Performance" at ECPR General Conference in Oslo, 6-9 September 2017
• Panel Chair "Challenges in Financing Global Public Goods through Bilateral Aid and Multilateral Organisation" at ECPR General Conference in Prague, 7-10 September 2016
• Co-Organizer (with Klaus H. Goetz) Workshop "Resourcing international organizations: actors, processes and budgets" in Munich, 23-24 June 2016
• Panel Chair (with Steffen Eckhard) "Bureaucratic Perspectives on International Organizations" at ECPR General Conference in Montreal, 26-29 August 2015

Teaching

Undergraduate Courses

• European Studies Intensive, Munich International Summer University (MISU) 2014, 2015, 2016 
• German Politics in its European Context, Potsdam (in German) Winter 2010-11 
• Introduction to Political Science Methods, Potsdam (in German) Winter 2009-10