Chair of Public Administration & Public Policy
Prof. Dr. Steffen Eckhard
Steffen Eckhard is Professor of Public Administration and Public Policy at Zeppelin University . He is also affiliated with the Center of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality” at the University of Konstanz and a Fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin.
In his research and teaching, he focuses on the management of public organizations and how they make an impact on politics and society – within the nation state but also internationally. His research projects cover a variety of topics, including public service encounters at the street-level, hybrid organizations at the boundary of the public and non-profit sector, and international public administrations in global policy-making. In support of his research, Steffen has received external funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Germany Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), and the Canadian Research Foundation (SSHRC), among others.
Steffen Eckhard studied political and administrative science in Konstanz, Grenoble and Stockholm. Between 2011 and 2014, he worked as a research associate at the Berlin-based think tank Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) for clients such as the German Foreign Office, United Nations and the Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF). In 2013, he received a PhD from the University of Konstanz. Between 2014 and 2018, Steffen was scientific coordinator of the research unit International Public Administration at the Geschwister Scholl Institute of Political Science (GSI) at the University of Munich (LMU), where he also completed his Habilitation in 2020. Between 2018 and 2022, Steffen was Junior Professor of Public Administration and Organization Theory at the University of Konstanz.
Publications
Book Publications
Eckhard, S. & Jankauskas, V. (forthcoming 2023).
The politics of evaluation in international organizations. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
Bauer, M., Knill, C., & Eckhard, S. (eds.) (2017).
International bureaucracy: Challenges and lessons for public administration
research. Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Eckhard, S. (2016). International assistance to police reform: Managing peacebuilding. Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Special
Issues
Behnke, N., & Eckhard, S. (2022). Crisis management by politics, administration and society in Germany. Special Issue in: Der moderne staat (dms): https://www.budrich-journals.de//dms/issue/view/3045
Thorvaldsdottir, S., Patz, R., & Eckhard, S. (2021). International bureaucracy and the United Nations system. Special Issue in International Review of Administrative Sciences: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/rasb/87/4
Selected
journal publications (peer-review)
Eckhard, S., & Friedrich, L. (2022). Linguistic features of public service encounters: How spoken administrative language affects citizen satisfaction. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. doi:10.1093/jopart/muac052.
Lenz, A., & Eckhard, S. (2022). Conceptualizing and explaining flexibility in administrative crisis management – a cross-district analysis in Germany. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. doi:10.1093/jopart/muac038.
Eckhard,
S., Friedrich, L., Hautli-Janisz, A., Mueden, V., & Espinoza, I. (2022). A taxonomy of administrative language in public service encounters. International
Public Management Journal. doi.org/10.1080/10967494.2022.2075062.
Eckhard,
S., Patz, R., Schönfeld, M., & van Meegdenburg, H. (2021). International bureaucrats in the UN Security Council debates: A
speaker-topic network analysis. Journal of European Public Policy, 1-20.
doi.10.1080/13501763.2021.1998194.
Eckhard, S., Lenz, A., Seibel, W., Roth, F., &
Fatke, M. (2021). Latent Hybridity in Administrative Crisis Management: The
German Refugee Crisis of 2015/16. Journal of Public Administration Research
and Theory, 31(2), 416–433.
Eckhard, S. & Y. Steinebach (2021). Staff
recruitment and geographical representation in international organizations. International
Review of the Administrative Sciences, 87(4), 701–717.
Eckhard, S., & Jankauskas, V. (2020). Explaining
the political use of evaluation in international organizations. Policy
Sciences 53, 667–695.
Eckhard, S. (2021). Bridging the citizen gap:
Bureaucratic representation and knowledge linkage in (international) public
administration. Governance, 34(2), 295– 314.
Eckhard, S., Patz, R., & Schmid, S. (2018). Reform
efforts, synchronization failure, and international bureaucracy: The case of
the UNESCO budget crisis. Journal of European Public Policy, 26(11),
1639-1656.
Eckhard, S. (2018). Comparing how peace operations
enable or restrict the influence of national staff: Contestation from within? Cooperation
and Conflict, 54(4), 488–505.
Eckhard, S., & Ege, J. (2016). International bureaucracies and their influence on policy-making: a review of empirical evidence. Journal of European Public Policy, 23(7), 960-978.
Data
Schönfeld, M., Eckhard, S., Patz, R., & Meegdenburg, H. v. (2019). The UN Security Council Debates Dataset. Harvard Dataverse: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/KGVSYH