close links between research and teaching; E-learning activities; Combining political science and administration studies; Combining theory and practice; Faculty research and advising activities.

Universitet i Bergen, Bergen, Norwegen; Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, Frankreich; Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, Paris, Frankreich; Umeå universitet, Umea, Schweden; Andrássy Gyula Budapesti Német Nyelvû Egyetem, Budapest, Ungarn; Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spanien; Universiteit Gent, Gent, Belgien; Aarhus Universitet, Aarhus, Dänemark; Marmara Üniversitesi, Istanbul, Türkei; Tartu Ülikool, Tartu, Estland

At the heart of the research are control problems between state, economy and civil society as well as within the highly differentiated public sector. Specialisations exist in the Comparative Analysis of Organisations and Institutions, Policy Research and Administrative Science. Current research includes: Administrative Reform and Reform of the Public Sector (international comparison, at local level), Coordination Regimes in Parliamentary Democracies, International Organisations and their Management Units, Reform of Welfare States in Comparison.