Oct 20
I visited the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City on October 20-21 to participate in events marking the 40th anniversary of their Masters degree in Public Policy and Administration. Details here. I participated in a panel on October 20 that examined the question: Does ‘Public Management studies’ have a future? A recording of my brief comments can be heard here.
I gave a talk at the University of Kansas’ School of Public Affairs and Administration on October 13. Listen to the talk here. The talk was based on my working paper, “Blind Men and an Elephant: Three Partial Views of Public Administration.” Download the paper from SSRN. A copy of the Powerpoint slides for this talk can be downloaded here. I also talked with some of the School’s PhD students (right).
I gave the keynote address at the 3rd International Conference on Democratic Governance in the Developing World in Washington, DC on July 19. My topic was “One world: Building a single body of knowledge for statecraft.” Listen to the address here | Overview of the conference here.
I’ll be a presenter in the Technology for Accountability Lab that will be hosted this summer by Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and Rule of Law. Details here.
I’ll be giving a talk at the London School of Economics on February 4 as part of the London public policy seminar series. Details here. The talk will be related to this project on public management and the state.
I’ll be discussing my book project Four Crises of Democracy at the Truman School on Friday September 25. Details here. The book is under contract with Oxford University Press.
I gave a lunchtime talk at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore on March 9. More details here | Flyer here. The paper that was the basis of the lecture is available on SSRN. NUS Professor Rahul Sagar moderated the discussion.
In a February 25 speech in Dublin, European Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly discusses my address to Mexico’s Accountability Network last October as well as earlier work on the effect of Wikileaks.
I’ll be delivering the Lee Lecture at All Souls College, Oxford, on February 26, 2015. Download the details from All Souls College. The title of my lecture will be Four Crises of Democracy. The paper is now available on SSRN (Revised on January 6). The Lecture is supported by Dr. Seng Tee Lee FBA through an endowment for an annual lecture in Political Science and Government. Read more
I’ll be discussing my monograph, Large Forces: What’s Missing in Public Administration, at George Mason University’s School of Policy, Government and International Affairs on December 2. Details about the lecture here.
