Prof. Dr. Werner Jann
Werner Jann is Director of the PCPM and held the Chair for Political Science, Administration and Organization at the University of Potsdam from 1993 to 2015. He continues to support the faculty and the area of "Public Administration, Public Policy and Management" as Senior Professor. After his academic education and post-doc work at Universities in Berlin, Edinburgh, Speyer and Berkeley, he worked as Head of the 'Think-Tank Schleswig-Holstein' (Denkfabrik Schleswig-Holstein) in the Prime-Ministers Office of the Land Schleswig-Holstein in Kiel from 1989 - 1993. He was President of the European Group of Public Administration (EGPA) from 2001 to 2004, is Vice-Presdident of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS) and has been a member of several national and international reform commissions (2002-2009 member of ' Committee of Experts on Public Administration' UN, New York).
PCPM-Fellow
Campus Griebnitzsee
Building 2, Room 206
August-Bebel-Straße 89
14482 Potsdam
Research Topics
- Modernization of the Public Sector (also international comparison)
- Bureaucracy and Debureaucratizing
- Better Regulation
- Governmental organization
- Ministerial administration and Agencification
- Political management of the Administration
- Organizational and institutional theory
- Policy research
Research Projects
- Structure and Organisation of Government (DFG ORA: 2013-2016)
- Organizational structures and performance measurement of National Anti-Doping Organizations - an international comparison (WADA: 2013-2015)
- Stärkung der Verwaltungsausbildung in Afghanistan (Auswärtiges Amt / GIZ: 2012-2015)
- Reformen von Wohlfahrtsstaaten im Vergleich (Norwegischer Forschungsrat: 2011-2015)
- PROGRESS (BMBF: 2009-2014 - completed)
- Monitoring the Impacts of Decentralizing Health Governance in Nepal (GIZ: 2011-2013 - completed)
- Regierungsorganisation in Westeuropa (DFG: 2005-2009 - completed)