Research projects (externally funded)
Strategic control in party-government-systems
Developing a concept of strategic management in the context of party-government-systems and its empirical application to a comparative study of strategic government control in Great Britain and Germany.
more (in German)
* Financial support by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
* Start: April 2006
* End: March 2009
Modernization of public administration – Lower Saxony
Empirical investigation on the impact of the abolition of opposition proceedings in Lower Saxony (2005-2009).
More information in German can be found here
* Financially supported by the Ministry of Interior of Niedersachsen
* Start: October 2006
* End: December 2008
Model County Law – Lower Saxony
Accompanying Research on the Model County Law of Lower Saxony (Modelkommunengesetz) (analysis of acceptance and effects)
Intermediate report [PDF] (in German)
* Financially supported by the state chancellery Niedersachsen
* Start: January 2006
* End: Dezember 2008
Patterns of democracy and capacity of political systems in Central and Eastern Europe
Quantitative-empirical comparison of the economic, ecological and social performance of 10 CEE countries, in cooperation with the University of Greifswald, Prof. Dr. Detlef Jahn.
More information in German can be found here
* Financially supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
* Start: January 2004
* End: December 2007
Ministerial Recruitment and Career Patterns in Central Eastern Europe
Compiling a dataset about the socio-structural background variables and the career patterns of over 1200 Ministers in ten CEE countries.
* Financially supported (partly) by the European Science Foundation (ESF), EURELITE Project
* Start: November 2002
* End: December 2007
Governing in New Democracies
Interviews with ca. 380 former ministers (1990-2000) in ten CEE countries.
* Financially supported (in part) by the World Bank
* Start: November 2002
* End: December 2006
Publication: Jean Blondel, Ferdinand Müller-Rommel, Darina Malova et. al.,
Governing New European Democracies (London: MacMillan / Palgrave, 2007).
Datasets:
CEEMinisterdataneu [SAV]
MinisterQuestionnaire [PDF]
Ministercodebook [PDF]
East-West Network of Competence Celle - Lüneburg
Coordination of activities by different actors with East-West-competence
in the government district of Lüneburg. What does ‘East-West’ mean here?!?!
See: www.osteuropa-niedersachsen.de
* Financially supported by EU regional fund (EFRE) as well as the Ministry of Economics of Niedersachsen
* Start: October 2003
* End: December 2005