German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer

Summer Studies
SPEA in SPEYER

8 May to 12 June 2010

Program 2010

General

The program will run for slightly longer than four weeks, from May 8 to June 12, 2010. It consists of five seminars at the graduate level which are fully integrated into the regular curriculum of the university and, therefore, open to DHV students. Four seminars have one session per week lasting three teaching hours (1 teaching hour = 45 minutes). This makes 12 hrs per seminar during the four week period or 48 hrs for four seminars. The fifth seminar has two sessions of 3 hrs each per week or 24 hrs for the entire period. In sum, the DHV Speyer offers 72 hrs of coursework during the summer program. During the time American students are in residence, classes will be conducted in English.

The size of classes will depend on the number of US students and about 10 DHV students per seminar. A general introduction to the program including assignments of topics and other issues will be given on Monday morning, May 10, 2010 or earlier depending on arrival of students.

Seminar topics

A comparative perspective on public administration in the EU, Germany and the US

Origins of public administration as a discipline: Are Weber’s bureaucratic model and Wilson’s distinction between politics and administration still relevant today?
The citizen’s right to know in the US, EU and Germany
IIntergovernmental coordination in multi-level systems
Local governments as entrepreneurs in Germany and the US
Political approaches to public personnel administration
Budgetary controls of the federal bureaucracy in the US and Germany
Competing state paradigms and consequences for public administration
Administrative reforms

Eberhard Bohne

Sergio Fernandez

Comparative history of public administration in Europe

Monarchical and proto-democratic traditions of European public administration
French Revolution as trigger for reforms of German and European public administrations
Beginning of social security systems in Europe
Impact of national-socialism and communism on German public administration

Stefan Fisch

European economic integration

European integration from the Treaty of Rome until today / The economics of regional economic integration
The Single Market / The EU’s budget
Common Agricultural Policy / Common Transport Policy and Common Commercial Policy
Monetary integration
The Treaty of Lisbon and beyond

Andreas Knorr

Europeanization of policymaking in EU member states

“Europeanization” – Introduction to a research
agenda
Impact on member state’s institutions
Impact on member state’s politics
Impact on new member states – accession
politics

Sabine Kropp

A comparative perspective on public and private health systems in Europe

Introduction to the US, EU and German public and private health systems
The European health system from Germany to
the UK
Financing and the economy of health care
Rules of competition on and trade in health care

Rainer Pitschas

Timetable

Requirements
The seminars are part of SPEA's master program. Credit requirements for SPEA-students are determined by SPEA:

Students who are enrolled at the DHV are welcome to participate in one or more seminars of the program as part of their regular curriculum. Students have to meet the normal seminar requirements of the DHV: Submission of a paper and an oral presentation both in English.

The DHV also offers a certificate of participation to those DHV students who participate in all five seminars. In this case, a paper and an oral presentation have to be given in a seminar of the student’s choice. Furthermore, oral presentations of assigned readings are required in the remaining seminars where papers are not written. The deadline for the submission of papers will be determined by agreement with the instructors.