Research Projects

Main Research Projects

The KPM Center 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
Employer Attractiveness of Public Organizations
detailed description		 Prof. Dr. Adrian Ritz
Factors of Good Legislation
detailed description		 Prof. Dr. Andreas Lienhard
Court Decisions Between Transparency and Privacy (Open Justice versus Privacy)
detailed description		 Prof. Dr. Andreas Lienhard
Household Preferences for Electric Vehicles and Renewable Energy and the Effect of These Technologies on Electricity Demand
detailed description		 Prof. Dr. Doina Radulescu
How do small and medium-sized social welfare organizations cope with organizational challenges triggered by digitization?
detailed description		 Prof. Dr. Claus Jacobs
How do social entrepreneurs persuade backers through verbal and visual Communication?
detailed description		 Prof. Dr. Claus Jacobs
How 'new work' settings shape organizational identity beliefs
detailed description		 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
Public Service Motivation, NF Project, Dept. I
detailed description		 Prof. Dr. Adrian Ritz
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		 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
detailed description		 Prof. Dr. Claus Jacobs
Urban prosperity beyond the metropolis: Analyzing small and medium-sized towns in Switzerland
detailed description		 Prof. Dr. Fritz Sager
Distribution of Energy-Related Housing Costs and Probability of Environmentally Burdened Living Conditions: An Analysis Based on European Household Survey Data
detailed description		 Prof. Dr. Doina Radulescu

Dissertation & Habilitation projects

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

Dissertations & Habilitations

Candidate
Assessing Blame Avoidance Behavior Markus Hinterleitner
Challenges in reforms of the professional mandate in public education. 
detailed description		 Cyrill Kalbermatten
Influencing factors in the pre-parliamentary legislative process
detailed description (in German)		 Metkel Yosief
Introduction of flat rates per case in Switzerland: prerequisites and influence of increasingly involved debt capital markets Bernhard Eicher (external doctoral candidate)
Performance agreements in impact-oriented administrative management
detailed description (in German)		 Thomas Nistelberger
Open Data and Crowdsourcing in the Cultural Heritage Domain
detailed description		 Beat Estermann (external doctoral candidate)
Publication of court rulings in the area of conflict between transparency and secrecy interests
detailed description (in German)		 Magda Chodup 
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

 

Habilitations

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

Completed Dissertations & Habilitations

Dissertations & Habilitations

Candidate
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
Competence-oriented identification of talent in the public sector
detailed description		 Peter Sinelli
Contextualising technology and practice adoption in healthcare settings Sandra Gillner
Dilemma situations of school principals
detailed description		 Daniela Schädeli
Effects of Regulation in the Medical Device Industry and Health Systems Analysis
detailed description		 Kosta Shatrov
Employee Motivation in the Public and Private Sectors
detaillierte Beschreibung		 Oliver Neumann
Essays in Energy Economics
detailed description		 Fabian Feger
'Evidence-Based Policy': The role of the federal administration Simone Ledermann
Governmental Budgetary Controlling and Public Debt
detailed description		 Fabienne Marti Locher
Judicial councils in Switzerland
detailed description (in German)		 Michelle Grosjean
Legal framework for workload management in the Swiss judiciary; status - comparison - conclusions
detailed description		 Andreas Müller
Methodology of Workload Studies in the Judiciary
detailed description		 Daniela Winkler
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		 Christian Rosser
Parliamentary Supervision of Public Enterprises of the Confederation - Analysis and Consequences in the Context of Supervision and Control by the Federal Council
detailed description		 Claudia Höchner
Performance Measurement in Human Service Organizations: How is it Used by Managerial Professionals?
detailed description		 Roger Pfiffner
Processing of Data on Judges; Needs and Limitations
detailed description		 Peter Bieri
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
Supervision of the Judiciary
detailed description		 Mirjam Frey Haesler
The Importation of Ideas from the U.S. American Administrative Sciences to Germany During the 20th Century
detailed description		 Pascal Hurni
The Potential of Public Service Motivation for External Personnel Marketing in Public Administration
detailed description		 Christian Waldner
The Role of Evaluation Results in Direct Democracy Campaigns - Evidence-based Discourse in Education Voting Campaigns
detailed description		 Caroline Schlaufer
The Transatlantic Transfer of Administrative Ideas between France and the United States in the 20th Century
detailed description		 Céline Mavrot
Use of Evaluation Results in Health Policy Referendum Campaigns
detailed description		 Iris Stucki
Use of Simulation Modelling to Improve Care for Patients with Chronic Conditions in Switzerland
detailed description		 Lize Duminy