Public Administration and Politics
Research Group
Our Research
Our research group on Public Administration and Politics is united by a common basis in classic as well as emerging theorizing on organizations, politics and public administration. Our research themes include:
- Management reform, organizational change and bureaucratization in public administration
- The administrative structure of historical communist state administration
- Post-communist public administration in EU candidate countries
- International organisations and East-West policy isomorphism during the Cold War
- The multilevel governance of mineral extraction in West Africa
- European and nation level migration agencies as public administration
Current research projects
Workshops on the study of the civil service in Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova
Teaching
Our teaching includes courses within Bachelor, Master’s and PhD programs at the Department of Global Political Studies (GPS).
Programmes and courses
The Bachelors program in Political Science and Public Administration
- Course: Public administration, democracy and ethics
- Course: Organization Theory
- Course: International Organizations as Bureaucracies
- Course: Management, organization ande decision making in modern politics
The Master program on Global Politics
- Course: Foreign Policy Decision Making, States and Institutions
Master program on Global Politics
The PhD program in Global Politics
- Course: Contestations and Change in the World Polity
Doctoral studies in Global Politics
The PhD program in Organization Studies
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Researchers
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