KDZ - Center for Administrative Research
The KDZ - Center for Administrative Research (KDZ) is an institute organized as an association and based in Vienna . The non-profit organization is active in various economic areas of public task fulfillment.
history
founding
The KDZ was founded in 1969 on the initiative of the Austrian Association of Cities by the City of Vienna and the Central Savings Bank of the City of Vienna as an association for the local science documentation center as a non-profit organization . Not only should documentation be set up, but an association should be created that researches public tasks and their financing and acts as a "mediator" between science and community practice and other public bodies.
Reorganization of the association
The KDZ was reformed in 1999. In addition, the KDZ - Managementberatungs- und WeiterbildungsGmbH was founded, which is wholly owned by the association and deals with management and organizational consulting, the implementation of training events and the issuing of publications.
The research areas are public governance and public management , finance and urban economics .
Library
Due to the focus of its collection, the KDZ has well-founded municipal and administrative-scientific documentation. The library, designed as a reference library, sees itself as an information and documentation facility for public administration in Austria and is open to all interested parties. The library currently (as of 2009) has a stock of around 8,000 books and 20,000 selected journal articles from domestic and foreign specialist journals on the following key areas:
- Public finance ,
- Public economy,
- Public law ,
- Politics and public administration ,
- Business and economics ,
- Public management and public governance,
- E-government ,
- Regional and urban development ,
- Social science topics such as health , education , culture , leisure and so on,
- European topics such as regional policy , services of general interest , financial policy and others.
The KDZ became a member of the Austrian Library Association at the beginning of 2004 . The entire library holdings can be accessed online at any time via the homepage and that of the Austrian library network.
management
Until the end of 2008, Helfried Bauer was managing director of the KDZ, and Peter Biwald has been managing director since then .