KPM Center for Public Management

Research Projects

Current Projects

The Center of Competence for Public Management is currently involved in the following research projects:

Projects

Responsible Party at the KPM
Assessing Blame Avoidance Behavior
detailed description		 Prof. Dr. Fritz Sager
Capital City Dynamics: A Comparative Analysis of Innovation and Positioning of Secondary Capital City Regions
detailed description		 Prof. Dr. Fritz Sager
Arbeitgeberattraktivität öffentlicher Organisationen
detailed description		 Prof. Dr. Adrian Ritz
Faktoren guter Rechtsetzung
detailed description (in German)		 Prof. Dr. Andreas Lienhard
Gerichtsurteile im Spannungsfeld zwischen Transparenz und Privatsphäre (Open Justice versus Privacy)
detailed description (in German)		 Prof. Dr. Andreas Lienhard
Household Preferences for Electric Vehicles and Renewable Energy and the Effect of These Technologies on Electricity Demand
detailed description (in German)		 Prof. Dr. Doina Radulescu
How do small and medium-sized social welfare organizations cope with organizational challenges triggered by digitization?
detaillierte Beschreibung 		 Prof. Dr. Claus Jacobs
How do social entrepreneurs persuade backers through verbal and visual Communication?
detaillierte Beschreibung		 Prof. Dr. Claus Jacobs
How 'new work' settings shape organizational identity beliefs
detaillierte Beschreibung 		 Prof. Dr. Claus Jacobs
International Collaborative on Costs, Outcomes and Needs in Care (ICCONIC)
detailed description		 Prof. Dr. Rudolf Blankart
Making sense of reliability threats: Exploring risk work in Swiss prisons
detailed description		 Prof. Dr. Claus Jacobs
Humans in Digital Administration
detailed description		 Prof. Dr. Adrian Ritz & Prof. Dr. Andreas Lienhard
Multidimensionale Abschätzung des Regulatorischen Aufwandes und Identifikation von Optimierungsbedarf (MARANO)
detailed description 		Prof. Dr. Rudolf Blankart
Public Service Motivation, NF Project, Dept. I
detailed description		 Prof. Dr. Adrian Ritz
Pushing the boundaries of Cost and Outcome analysis of Medical Technologies (COMED)
detailed description		 Prof. Dr. Rudolf Blankart
Screen4Care
detailed description		 Prof. Dr. Rudolf Blankart
The normative-analytical divide in 20th century public administration thought. A history of ideas of US-American and Continental European administrative science
detailed description		 Prof. Dr. Fritz Sager
The Role of Evaluation Results in Direct Democratic Campaigns. The Cases of Education and Health Policy
detailed description (in German)		 Prof. Dr. Fritz Sager
The role of governance in public sector digitalization (RoGoDi)
detailed description		 Prof. Dr. Adrian Ritz
Undoing stigma – Enacting palliative care in children's hospital
detaillierte Beschriebung		 Prof. Dr. Claus Jacobs
Urban prosperity beyond the metropolis: Analyzing small and medium-sized towns in Switzerland
detailed description		 Prof. Dr. Fritz Sager
Use of simulation modelling to improve care for patients with chronic conditions in Switzerland (NRP 74: Smarter Healthcare)
detailed description		  Prof. Dr. Rudolf Blankart
Verteilung der energiebezogenen Wohnkosten und Wahrscheinlichkeit von umweltbelasteten Lebensbedingungen: Eine Analyse anhand von europäischen Haushaltsumfragedaten
detailed description (in German)		 Prof. Dr. Doina Radulescu

At the KPM, Dissertations are also written as part of the Doctorate in Administrative Sciences. 

Dissertation & Habilitation projects

The Center of Competence for Public Management is currently supervising the following dissertation and habilitation projects:

Dissertations & Habilitations

Responsible Party at the KPM
Assessing Blame Avoidance Behavior Markus Hinterleitner
Challenges in reforms of the professional mandate in public education. 
detailed description		 Cyrill Kalbermatten
Dilemma situations of school principals
detailed description		 Daniela Schädeli
Direct-democratic campaigns on health policies in Switzerland: The influence of evaluation results
detailed description		 Iris Stucki
Effects of regulation in the medical device industry and health systems analysis
detailed description		 Kosta Shatrov
Einflussfaktoren im vorparlamentarischen Rechtsetzungsverfahren
detailed description (in German)		 Metkel Yosief
Justizräte in der Schweiz
detailed description (in German)		 Michelle Grosjean
Leistungsvereinbarungen in der wirkungsorientierten Verwaltungsführung
detailed description (in German)		 Nistelberger Thomas
Open Data and Crowdsourcing in the Cultural Heritage Domain
detailed description		 Beat Estermann (external doctorand)
Performance Measurement in Human Service Organizations: How is it Used by Managerial Professionals?
detailed description		 Roger Pfiffner (externer Doktorand)
Publication of court rulings in the area of conflict between transparency and secrecy interests
detailed description (in German)		 Magda Chodup 
Public Leadership
detailed description		 Muriel Bärtschi
Selection of funding models by hospitals in Switzerland, Germany and Austria
detailed description 		 Bernhard Eicher (external doctorand)
The public discourse on the child and adult protection services (KESB): How did an institutional reform turn into a moral controversy and how does it affect policy practice?
detailed description		 Bettina Stauffer and Johanna Künzler
Use of simulation modelling to improve care for patients with chronic conditions in Switzerland
detailed description		 Lize Duminy

 

Habilitations

Responsible Party at the KPM
Public Sector Corruption – Exploring the Micro-foundations of Bribery and Prosocial Rule-Breaking
detailed description		 Kristina S. Weissmüller

Completed dissertations & habilitations

Dissertations & Habilitations

Responsible Party at the CCPM
Autonomy of Agencies at the Federal Level in Switzerland
detailed description		 Etienne Huber
Capital City Dynamics: Positioning Strategies of Secondary Capital City Regions
detailed description		 David Kaufmann
Direct-democratic campaigns on health policies in Switzerland: The influence of evaluation results
detailed description		 Iris Stucki
Employee motivation in the public and private sectors
detaillierte Beschreibung		 Oliver Neumann
Essays in Energy Economics
detailed description		 Fabian Feger
Governmental Budgetary Controlling and Public Debt
detailed description		 Fabienne Marti Locher
Municipal Mergers in Switzerland
detailed description		 Claire Kaiser
Papers on the Transatlantic Transfer of Administrative Ideas in the 20th Century − What American Scholars of Public Administration Learned from the Germans
detailed description		 Chriastian Rosser
Public health policy at the frontline: a comparative perspective
detailed description		 Eva Thomann
Quality Assurance in the Swiss Higher Education System
detailed description		 Fabian Amschwand
The Importation of Ideas from the U.S. American Administrative Sciences to Germany During the 20th Century
detailed description		 Pascal Hurni
The Transatlantic Transfer of Administrative Ideas between France and the United States in the 20th Century
detailed description		 Céline Mavrot