Institute for the public sector

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The Institute for the Public Sector eV (English Public Governance Institute) is a think tank founded in 2005 and funded by KPMG Germany based in Berlin . The central themes of the think tank are public management and public corporate governance . Every year the Institute for the Public Sector, together with the Carl and Anneliese Goerdeler Foundation and the City of Leipzig, awards the "Communal Science Prize of the Carl and Anneliese Goerdeler Foundation" (Carl Goerdeler Prize) for excellent dissertations in the field of local politics and administration .

structure

The Institute for the Public Sector aims to actively participate in the discussion on administrative modernization and the management and control of public companies, to provide a discussion platform for the actors involved, and to be a source of ideas and drivers of development.

Gerhard Hammerschmid from the Hertie School of Governance acts as honorary scientific director of the institute . The institute is also supported by an advisory board, the current members of which are:

The institute cooperates with the chair "Public and Financial Management" at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. It also supports the joint "Executive Master of Public Management" course at the Hertie School of Governance and the University of Potsdam . The institute is a founding member of the research and development network "Sustainable Administration" together with the Leuphana University of Lüneburg and the cities of Freiburg im Breisgau and Lüneburg .

research

Every quarter, the Institute for the Public Sector publishes the journal "PublicGovernance - Journal for Public Management", which has subscribers from politics, administration and public economy.

The think tank also publishes various studies:

In the project "Sustainable Local Government in Germany" with technical and financial support from the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU), an approach of integrated sustainability management was developed and tested with various actors from science and practice in the period from 2012 to 2015. The result was published in November 2015 as part of the manual "Making municipal administration sustainable".

In 2016, the Institute for the Public Sector published the study "The Group Commune in Crisis?", In which the economic situation of communes and public utilities was examined.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Gerhard Hammerschmid ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Hertie School of Governance, accessed March 12, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hertie-school.org
  2. ↑ Advisory Board , Institute for the Public Sector eV, accessed on March 22, 2016
  3. ↑ Municipal procurement in transition , Procurement Office of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, accessed on March 22, 2016
  4. ↑ Impact- oriented management in the third sector , Phineo gAG, accessed on March 22, 2016
  5. ↑ Energie vom Mayor , Die Zeit Online, accessed on March 12, 2016
  6. ↑ Handbook " Making municipal administration sustainable" , DBU project "Sustainable administration", accessed on March 12, 2016
  7. ↑ "The Commune Group in Crisis?" , Institute for the Public Sector eV with KPMG AG, accessed on March 22, 2016
  8. ↑ Dozens of German public utilities are about to go bankrupt , Die Welt Online, accessed on March 22, 2016
  9. ↑ Around a quarter of German public utilities are on the verge of bankruptcy , Focus Online, accessed on March 22, 2016