Jens White

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Jens-Oliver Weiß (* 1968 in Mannheim ) is a German social scientist and has been Professor of Administrative Sciences at the Harz University of Applied Sciences in Halberstadt, Germany, since 2011 .

Life

Weiß grew up in Villingen-Schwenningen and graduated from high school there in 1988. He studied political science, economics and sociology at the Philipps University of Marburg , where he received his doctorate in 1999 with a thesis on environmental policy as actors . He was a member of the political economy research group at the University of Marburg and collaborated on projects at the chair of Birger P. Priddat at the private University of Witten / Herdecke . From 1999, Weiß worked as a consultant and partner in management consultancies. Since March 2011 he has been Professor of Administrative Sciences at the Harz University of Applied Sciences in Halberstadt, and since March 2017 he has been Vice-Rector for University Development and Equal Opportunities there.

Research priorities

White deals with social and organizational change processes and their controllability. His dissertation "Environmental Policy as Actor Action" shows how modern societies construct and deal with environmentally related conflicts. Since 2005 he has mainly been concerned with change processes in public administrations. Recent academic work is analyzing the results of transformation and reform processes in municipal administrations on the basis of various examples - new control model (NSM) , introduction of Doppik, electronic participatory budgeting and e-participation, strategic control, etc. - and working out typical problems in these processes and their causes .

Publications (selection)

  • Managing Performance and Strategy: Managerial Practices in German Local Governments , in: Public Performance & Management Review, published online 12/2019
  • Strategic management and impact-oriented control in municipalities , Wiesbaden 2019
  • The evolution of reform narratives: a narrative policy framework analysis of German NPM reforms , in: Critical Policy Studies, published online 10/2018
  • Trust as a key for strategic management? The relevance of council – administration relations for NPM-related reforms in German local governments , in: Public Management Review, vol. 10, pp. 1399-1414
  • Strategic budget consolidation in municipalities , Wiesbaden 2014.
  • Who will save democracy from e-participation? Three questions about electronic participation procedures . In: Verwaltung & Management, Heft 6, 2013. P. 283–288.
  • Environmental Policy as Acting Acting, A Theory of Cooperative Processing of Information and Distribution Problems , Marburg 2000.
  • The unemployed society and its welfare state , Marburg 1998, together with Kai Eicker-Wolf u. a.
  • Economic policy in a theoretical vacuum? On the Pathology of Political Economy , Marburg 1996, together with Kai Eicker-Wolf u. a.

Remarks

  1. ^ Minister Willingmann hands over the certificate of appointment to Rector Roland. Retrieved May 3, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Jens Weiß: The Transformation of German Local Government Under the Influence of the New Control Model, in: der moderne Staat, Issue 1, 2013, pp. 231-251.
  3. ↑ Jens Weiß u. a .: Evaluation of the Doppik introduction in the municipalities of the State of Saxony-Anhalt . Halberstadt 2014.
  4. ↑ Jens Weiß: Who will save democracy from e-participation? Three questions about electronic participation procedures . In: Administration & Management . Issue 6, 2013, p. 283-288 .
  5. ↑ Jens Weiß: Trust as a key for strategic management? The relevance of council – administration relations for NPM-related reforms in German local governments . In: Public Management Review . 2016, doi : 10.1080 / 14719037.2016.1266023 .
  6. ^ Jens Weiss: Managing Performance and Strategy: Managerial Practices in German Local Governments . In: Public Performance & Management Review . December 17, 2019, p. 1–21 , doi : 10.1080 / 15309576.2019.1702064 .
  7. ↑ https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-27359-0
  8. ↑ https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2018.1530605 .
  9. ↑ http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2016.1266023
  10. ↑ http://www.vum.nomos.de/fileadmin/vum/doc/Aufsatz_VM_13_06.pdf

Web links

  • Jens Weiß at the Harz University of Applied Sciences
personal data
SURNAME White, Jens
ALTERNATIVE NAMES White, Jens-Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social scientist and university professor (administrative sciences)
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim