Public administration is a crucial but neglected aspect of liberal democracy as well as authoritarian rule, at the national as well as transnational and international levels.

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 organizations as global polity 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

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

Doctoral studies at the Department of Urban Studies

Research group leaders

Astrid Hedin

Astrid Hedin - Associate Professor/Senior lecturer

astrid.hedin@mau.se
+46 40 665 81 62

Politics, rights and organisation

Patrik Hall - Professor

patrik.hall@mau.se
+46 40 665 71 56

Department of Global Political Studies (GPS)

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