Eine neue Veranstaltungsreihe beginnt in diesem Semester unter dem Namen "International Public Management Lecture Series kurz IPM. Diese Veranstaltung des PMG Departments bietet ein Forum für Studierende, Lehrende und Wissenschaftler aus aller Welt über aktuelle Fragestellungen der Politik- und Verwaltungswissenschaften zu diskutieren.

The IPM Lecture Series brings students and scientists together. Experts from all over the world visit the Zeppelin Universität to present their research on current political and administrative topics and engage in discussion with students. International students are welcome to join as all lectures and discussions will be conducted in English.

Former Lectures:

Prof. Nadeem Naqvi (Professor of Economics)
Monday, November 23rd, 2009 | 7PM | LZ 6 | Campus Seemooser Horn
Language: English

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| Capitalism versus World Market Capitalism

The first decade of the 21st century is witnessing the emergence of a new social formation, with characteristics quite distinct from those of late 20th century Capitalism. The origins of this new face of Capitalism, World Market Capitalism, its features and eventual form constitute the subject matter of this talk.
Prof. Naqvi graduated from Delhi University and pursued a Master’s degree at the Delhi School of Economics. In 1981, he moved to the USA, where he obtained another M.A. and his PhD at the Southern Methodist University, Texas. In the States, he worked on various country projects for distinguished organizations: South Africa for the World Bank, Vietnam for the World Wildlife Fund, and Kenya for the United Nations. Since 2007 he has been teaching at the American University in Bulgaria.



Dr. Adam Steinhouse (National School of Government)
Monday, November 9th, 2009 | 7PM | LZ 6 | Campus Seemooser Horn
Language: English

| Learning and innovation in government: EU lessons from the UK National School of Government

Born in Montreal, Dr. Adam Steinhouse graduated with a BA from Harvard and a DPhil from Oxford. Before he became Head of the School of European Studies at the National School of Government, he taught European Politics at the London School of Economics and the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. He also commented on European and North American affairs for BBC, CNN, NBC, and Sky News.
Because of his experience in extensive EU training of officials and executives on EU affairs in virtually every EU Member State, Dr. Adam Steinhouse is both: distinguished scholar and foreign policy expert. His political analyses and lectures are sought-after by senior policy makers, politicians and academics.



Dr. phil. Dieter Plehwe
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 | 7 PM | LZ 3 | Campus Seemooser Horn
Language: English

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| Think Tanks. Challenging Science and Politics

Dr. Plehwe has been a research fellow of the research unit "Internationalization and Organization" at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) for thirteen years. His main research interests are International Political Economy and Neoliberalism. A lecturer and professor at, among others, the University of Vienna, Yale University and New York University, Dr. Plehwe has shared his expertise on comparative political economy with an international range of scholars and students. In 2005 he cofounded “LobbyControl”, a new civil society initiative that provides information on lobbying, PR campaigns and think tanks and promotes transparency and democracy in Germany and the European Union.
Dr. Plehwe currently coordinates the project “Transnational community and discourse coalitions: Comparative analysis of neoliberal networks of intellectuals and think tanks”. The project aims at deepening the analysis of the world wide influence of neoliberal networks of intellectuals and think tanks through focusing on specific issue areas (e.g. development and environmental policies).



Dr. Rodney Smith (University of Sydney)
Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 7 PM, LZ 02 , Campus Seemooser Horn
Language: English

| Australian Public Sector Integrity Measures in a Comparative Perspective

Compared with most other countries, Australia is usually seen as having sound public sector integrity. Nonetheless, instances of serious corruption continue to occur at all three levels of government: the national level; the state level; and the local level. At the same time, public sector integrity systems in Australia have remained reasonably static. After a wave of attention to developing integrity measures in the 1990s, especially at the state government level, enthusiasm for further integrity reforms has waned.
The current Australian public sector integrity measures are quite uneven when comparing the vertical and horizontal federal dimension. Examining the vertical dimension the national level integrity system is weak, while the integrity systems on a regional and local level are comparatively well developed. Different Australian states however, comparing them horizontally, have again taken quite different approaches to integrity measures.
After setting out these features of Australian public sector integrity measures in more detail, the presentation will explain these patterns by adopting a comparative perspective. In doing so, Dr. Smith draws on recent frameworks for practicing and interpreting public policy and public administration, including new public management and path dependency.

Dr Rodney Smith is Professor in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney where he teaches Australian politics and political sociology. He has had a long term research interest in public sector integrity, most recently collaborating in a three-year Australian study on public sector whistleblowers, and on an international comparison of local integrity systems.