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Instructors: Sander Frank
Event type:
Seminar
Org-unit: Politics, Administration & International Relations
Displayed in timetable as:
Public Management
Hours per week:
3
Credits:
6,0
Location:
Campus der Zeppelin Universität
Language of instruction:
German
Min. | Max. participants:
7 | 35
Priority scheme: Standard-Priorisierung
Course content:
The seminar focuses on public administration in the context of disruptive transformation processes induced by digitization and climate change. Initially, fundamental facts are discussed and analyzed to what extent both digitization and climate change influence public administration and how, as a societal institution, it bears responsibility in shaping these processes. The conditions of administrative federalism, bureaucracy, and legislation are also examined and contrasted with other administrative systems to develop an understanding of the system-specific conditions of German administrative action.
By exploring theories of policy change, including the Multiple-Streams approach, the Veto Player approach, and institutional theory, a bridge is built to policy-making, discussing how the transformation in the context of digitization and climate change can be conceptually designed and implied through policy change. Furthermore, the discussion about policy change is embedded in a supranational context and analyzed using the example of international climate negotiations and agreements, examining how global phenomena can be addressed and advanced through national efforts. By discussing the relevance of data and evidence in policy-making, a substantive connection between the two core topics, digitization, and climate change, is established. Based on this foundation, the substantive connections between digitization and climate change in the scientific literature are prepared and debated in the seminar. It is critically reflected upon whether and which connections between digitization and climate change exist in terms of content, political theory, and administrative science, or if they are possibly exaggerated.
Finally, an inquiry is made into the contribution that administrative digitization can make to the generation of environmental and climate data and how these can be used through environmental and climate information systems, as well as digital twins or visual representation, for more effective policy-making in the context of mitigating climate change.
The following sessions and content are planned:
- The German Administrative Culture: Status quo and framework conditions of the continental-European federal administrative culture in the German context.
- Administrative digitization in Germany: Status, challenges, potentials, strengths & weaknesses.
- Data as the Fuel of the Modern Age: The significance of data and data spaces in the economy, as well as European and German data strategy.
- Climate change and sustainability: Status, definitions, and insights regarding the expected consequences of global warming.
- German climate policy: Insights and development of past climate policies. Deficiencies, achievements, and specifics of historical and contemporary climate policy in Germany.
- Theories of policy change and international climate conferences: Agenda-Setting Approach & Multiple-Streams Approach, Veto Player Theory, Institutional Theory, UNFCCC, and CoP.
- Smart City and Smart Green City Strategies: Approaches, examples, comparisons.
- Artificial Intelligence as a Climate Killer or Climate Solution? Potentials, dangers, and challenges of artificial intelligence in the context of administrative and governmental actions in climate policy.
- Environmental information systems and gamification: Possibilities of applying climate and environmental data.
- Digital Green Twins: Control and planning of climate-effective actions by the public sector.
Educational objective:
The students gain insights into current trends, novel concepts, models, and findings in the fields of administrative digitization and climate change. They become familiar with the applications of data in the context of climate change and are expected to be able to assess the extent to which administrative digitization contributes significantly to shaping climate policy and the methods available for applying climate and environmental data.
Further information about the exams:
The examination consists of a presentation of a seminar topic during the semester and a written elaboration at the end of the semester (endterm paper).
Admitted Aids:
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Mandatory literature:
- Göhler, G. (1987). Grundfragen der Theorie politischer Institutionen. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden.
- Koordinierungs- und Transferstelle Modellprojekte Smart Cities. (2023). Resilienz in der Smart City. Bundesinstitut für Bau-, Stadt- und Raumforschung, Bonn.
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Modulbeschreibung:
The seminar constitutes the module. Thus, the module and seminar are congruent.
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