Prof. Dr. Sylvia Veit (managing editor)
Sylvia Veit has been Professor of Public Administration, in particular Digital Government, at Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg since 2024. Previously, she held the Chair of Public Management at the University of Kassel since 2014. Her research focuses on the relationship between politics and administration, administrative politicization, career patterns in public administration, administrative reforms and policy advisory systems. She was a visiting scholar at Victoria University of Wellington in 2018. She received her PhD from the University of Potsdam in 2009. Her numerous publications have appeared in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, the International Review of Public Administration, Policy Sciences and Public Administration, among others.

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Prof. Dr. Thurid Hustedt (managing editor)
Thurid Hustedt is Professor of Public Administration and Public Management at the Hertie School in Berlin. At the intersection of public administration, organisational analysis, and political science, her research focuses on political-administrative relations, government coordination and policy advisory systems. She publishes her research in international journals such as Public Administration an Journal of European Public Policy. Next to research and teaching, she is regularly involved in developing and teaching executive education programs. Thurid regularly serves as an advisor to political and administrative institutions such as UN DESA and GIZ. Before joining the Hertie School, she was a visiting professor at the Free University of Berlin and a post doc at University of Potsdam.

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Prof. Dr. Jörg Bogumil
Jörg Bogumil held a chair in Public Administration, Local and Regional Politics at the Ruhr University Bochum since 2005. The political and administrative scientist has been researching the modernisation of the public sector for about 30 years. He has conducted numerous empirical research projects on the implementation status and effects of economisation and participation trends on public administrations (e.g. “citizen participation”, evaluation of the “New Steering model” at the municipal level, modernisation of the environmental administrations of the federal states, administrative structural reforms in the federal states. Further research foci are the modernisation of universities, inter-municipal cooperation, municipal finance, the administration of migration policy and the digitalisation of the public sector.

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Prof. Dr. Marian Döhler
Marian Döhler is Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration at Leibniz University Hannover. After studying political science and public administration in Berlin and Konstanz, he received his doctorate from the University of Konstanz in 1990. After working at the Science Center Berlin and the Max Planck-Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, he received the habilitation in political science at the University of Potsdam in 2005. Following a substitute professorship at Humboldt University Berlin, he took a professorship at the FernUniversität in Hagen in 2006 and Leibniz University Hannover in 2008. Since 2017 Marian Döhler is Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy. Numerous publications on public administration and public policy.

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Prof. Dr. Anke Hassel
Anke Hassel is Professor of Public Policy at the Hertie School. From 2016 to 2019 she was the Scientific Director of the WSI at the Hans Böckler Foundation. Anke Hassel has extensive international experience and scientific expertise in the fields of the labour market, social partnership, codetermination and the comparative political economy of developed industrial nations. She was an expert in the fact-finding committee on growth, prosperity and quality of life in the German Bundestag (2012-13); the expert commission on the future of the Hans Böckler Foundation (2015-17) and chairwoman of the expert group on Workers' Voice and Good Corporate Governance in Transnational Companies in Europe (2015-2018). She has also been a member of the German Federal Government's High-Tech Forum since January 2019.

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Prof. (em.) Dr. Werner Jann
Werner Jann is emeritus Professor for Political Science, Administration and Organisation at University of Potsdam, Germany. His main areas of research are public sector organization and modernization, public governance, policy making and organizational theory. He holds a PhD and Dr. Habil. from the University of Administrative Sciences Speyer, was Congressional Fellow in Washington D.C. and Research Fellow at UC Berkeley, has worked both as higher civil servant and as government consultant, and has served on a number of government commissions, amongst others for public sector reform and labour market administration (Hartz-Kommission).

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Prof. Dr. Christoph Knill
Professor Dr. Christoph Knill is Chair of Political Science and Public Administration at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. He studied public administration and political science at the University of Konstanz and obtained his PhD form the University of Bielefeld in 1994. He was research associate at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne (1994-1995), the European University Institute in Florence (1995-1998), and the Max-Planck Project Group for the Study of Common Goods in Bonn (1998-2000).

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Prof. Dr. Sabine Kuhlmann
Sabine Kuhlmann has held the Chair of Political Science, Administration and Organization at the University of Potsdam since 2013. Previously, she was Professor of Comparative Public Administration at the University of Speyer (2009-2013). She is Vice-President for Western Europe of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS) and Vice-Chair of the National Regulatory Control Council, which advises the German government on Better Regulation issues. Her research interests include comparative public administration and local government, administrative reform, Better Regulation, digitalization of the public sector, and crisis management. Since 2019, Sabine Kuhlmann is Hedda Andersson Chair and Visiting Professor at Lund University in Sweden.

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Prof. Dr. Susanne Lütz
Susanne Lütz is Professor for International Politics (W3) at the FernUniversität in Hagen since 2017. Her research focuses on international organizations in international politics and international political economy, cooperation between global and regional organizations, European political economy with a focus on finance and on regulatory politics in several policy areas (finance, corporate governance and intellectual property rights). Susanne was previously Professor for International Political Economy at the Free University of Berlin (2008-2017) and Professor for Political Regulation and Governance at the FernUniversität in Hagen (2003-2008). Susanne habilitated at the FernUniversität in Hagen and completed her PhD project in the interdisciplinary Post-Graduate Program on ‘Social networks’ at the University of  Cologne.

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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Renate E. Meyer
Renate Meyer is Professor and Chair of Organization Studies at WU Vienna. She is also Co- Director of the Research Institute for Urban Management & Governance at WU, Professor in Institutional Theory at Copenhagen Business School, and Visiting Professor of Management at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Renate is co-founder of the Institutional Theory Network (www.newinstitutionalism.org/). She is current Editor of Organization Studies and Division Chair of the OMT Division of the Academy of Management.

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Prof. Edward C. Page, PhD
Edward C. Page FBA has been Sidney and Beatrice Webb Professor of Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science since 2001. His main teaching and research areas are in the field of comparative public policy and administration. He studied at Kingston Polytechnic and the University of Strathclyde, gaining a doctorate from Strathclyde in 1982. Between 1981 and 2001 he was lecturer then reader and professor at the University of Hull. He directed the UK ESRC’s Future Governance Programme between 1999 and 2003 and has served as co-editor of Political Studies, The European Journal of Political Research and The Journal of Public Policy.

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Prof. Dr. Isabella Proeller
Isabella Proeller is Chair of Public Management at the University of Potsdam and Co-Director of the MPM Program. She holds a Degree in Business Management and Law from the University of St. Gallen, and a doctorate from the University of St. Gallen. Isabella Proeller has served on boards and as editor of various Public Management Journals. Her research work and publications focus on the fields of New Public Management, International Public Management, Performance and Strategic Management.

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Prof. Dr. Caspar van den Berg
Caspar van den Berg is Professor of Public Administration at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). His research interests include comparative public administration, civil service politicization, policy advisory systems, regional governance and centre-periphery relations. His work has been published in the international top journals including JPART, PAR, Governance and Public Administration.

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Prof. Dr. Johanna Wolff, LL.M. eur. (KCL)
Johanna Wolff is a professor for public law at the University of Osnabrück. Her research focusses on legal instruments to influence behaviour, administrative law, public commercial law, tax law and fiscal constitutional law. In 2020 she finished her habilitation at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer and received the venia legendi for public law, fiscal and tax law, European law and administrative science. Johanna Wolff studied law in Bielefeld, Frankfurt/M and London with post-graduate practical legal training in Berlin.

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Prof. Dr. Tobias Bach (Professor of Political Science, Institute for Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway) | Information

Prof. (em.) Dr. Harald Baldersheim (Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway) | Information

Prof. Dr. Michael W. Bauer (Chair of Comparative Public Administration and Policy-Analysis, German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer, Germany) | Information

Prof. Dr. Geert Bouckaert (Public Governance Institute, KU Leuven, Belgium) | Information

Prof. Dr. iur. Martin Burgi (Chair of Public Law, Business Administrative Law, Environmental and Social Security Law, LMU München, Germany) | Information

Prof. Dr. Andreas Busch (Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany) | Information

Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Lars P. Feld (Chair for Economic Policy and Constitutional Economics, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, and Director, Walter Eucken Institut, Freiburg, Germany) | Information

Dr. Caroline Fischer (Assistant Professor Public Administration and Digital Transformation, University of Twente, Section for Public Administration) | Information

Prof. Dr. em. Edgar Grande (Center for Civil Society Research, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Germany) | Information

Prof. Dr. Heike Grimm (Aletta Haniel Professor for Public Policy und Entrepreneurship, Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, University of Erfurt, Germany) | Information

Prof. Dr. Miriam Hartlapp (Professor of Comparative Politics with a focus on Germany and France, Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, Free University of Berlin) | Information

Prof. Dr. Eva G. Heidbreder (Professor of Political Science with a focus on „Regieren im europäischen Mehrebenensystem“, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg) | Information

Prof. Dr. iur. Stephan Hobe (Institute of Air Law, Space Law and Cyber Law, University of Cologne, Germany) | Information

Prof. Dr. Martin Höpner (University of Cologne/Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany) | Information

Prof. Dr. Lars Holtkamp (Chair of Politics and Administration, Institute of Political Science, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany) | Information

Univ. Prof. Dr. Michael Holoubek (Institute for Austrian and European Public Law, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria) | Information

Prof. Dr. Peter L. Hupe (Visiting Professor, Public Governance Institute, KU Leuven,  Belgium) | Information

Prof. Dr. Ellen Immergut (Professor of Political Science, Department of Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, Italy) | Information

Prof. Desmond King, PhD (Andrew W. Mellon Professor of American Government, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, UK) | Information

Prof. Dr. Tanja Klenk (Chair of Public Administration and Public Policy, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/ Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg, Germany) | Information

Prof. Dr. Sabine Kropp (Chair of German Politics, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) | Information

Prof. Dr. Andreas Lienhard (Managing Director, KPM Center for Public Management, Universität Bern, Switzerland) | Information

Dr. Elke Löffler (Senior Lecturer and Director of Strategic Partnerships at CPRL, The Open University in Milton Keynes, UK) | Information

Prof. Dr. jur. Veith Mehde (Lehrstuhl für Öffentliches Recht und Verwaltungswissenschaft, Leibniz-Universität Hannover, Germany) | Information

Prof. Dr. Frank Nullmeier (SOCIUM Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy, Theoretical and Normative Foundations, University of Bremen, Germany) | Information

Prof. Dr. Herbert Obinger (Professor am SOCIUM Forschungszentrum Ungleichheit und Sozialpolitik, Abteilung für Theoretische und normative Grundlagen, University of Bremen, Germany) | Information

Prof. (em.) Dr. Janbernd Oebbecke (Institute of Local Government, Department of Public Law, University of Münster, Germany) | Information

Francesco Palermo, PhD (Head of Institute, Institute for Comparative Federalism, Eurac Research, Bozen, Italy) | Information

Prof. Salvador Parrado Diez, PhD (Professor de Ciencia Política y de la Administración, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain) | Information

Prof. Dr. Adrian Ritz (Professor for Public Management, KPM Center for Public Management, Universität Bern, Switzerland) | Information

Prof. Dr. Eva Ruffing (Professor for the Political System of the FRG in the context of European multi-level politics, Osnabrück University) | Information

Prof. Dr. Uwe Schimank (SOCIUM Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy, Theoretical and Normative Foundations, University of Bremen, Germany) | Information

Prof. Dr. iur. Utz Schliesky (Lorenz-von-Stein Institute for Administrative Science, Kiel University, Germany) | Information

Prof. Dr. Eckhard Schröter (Department of Administrative Science with Special Emphasis on Politics and Society, German Police University, Münster, Germany) | Information

apl. Prof. Dr. med. Fritz B. Simon (Scientific Director of the Master's Distance Learning Program "Systemic Consulting”, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany) | Information

Assoc. Professor Katarina Staronova (Associate Professor of Public Policy and Administration, Institute of Public Policy, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia) | Information

Prof. Dr. Tobias ten Brink (Professor of Chinese Economy and Society, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany) | Information

Prof. Dr. Annette Elisabeth Töller (Professor for Policy Analysis, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany) | Information

Prof. Dr. Reimut Zohlnhöfer (Institute for Political Science, Universität Heidelberg, Germany) | Information