What do Political Theorists think about Sequoia publishing the Source Code of its Voting System?

October 30, 2009
By Philipp Mueller

As history unfolds it is often hard to distinguish the truly historical from the incidental. As someone who has lived through German reunification 20 years ago these days, I can attest to that. But the absence of political theorists following the debate about open source in general and open voting systems in specific seems reckless.
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Adaptive Advantages and Deliverology

October 28, 2009
By Philipp Mueller

The trend in 2009 is to argue that in times of crisis, strategy needs to be more attuned to the changing realities of an organizations environment. As Stefan Stern argues in the FT: At BCG, Reeves and Deimler has produced a paper, “New bases of competitive advantage”, that looks at something they call “adaptive advantage”.
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Documenting the Government 2.0 Camp

August 23, 2009
By Sebastian Haselbeck
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On August 28, academics, professionals and practitioners will meet in Berlin at the Hertie School of Government‘s premises for the Government 2.0 Camp, a bar-camp event organized by the Innovators Club and sponsored by a host of companies and organizations. The Center for Public Management and Governance is hosting the documentation effort by Dr. Philipp Müller‘s Team of the ESPP (which is now called the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy) at gov20.cpmg.eu for...
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Verwaltung 2.0

April 2, 2009
By Philipp Mueller

Unsere Vorstellung von Verwaltung ist immer noch von Max Weber geprägt: Ihre Logik ergibt sich aus dem Spannungsverhältnis von Gesetz, Hierarchie und Verwaltungshandeln, das von der Beamtenethik geprägt ist. Arcana imperii (Staatsgeheimnisse) und ihr kleiner Bruder, das Amtsgeheimnis, sichern die Legitimität von Staats- und Verwaltungshandeln. Barack Obamas Forderungen nach Transparenz, Partizipation und Kollaboration sind nicht aus dem Nichts entstanden. Seit mehreren Jahrzehnten werden mit New Public Management, dem neuen Steuerungsmodell, wirkungsorientierter Verwaltung, Digital-era governance...
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Transparenz, Partizipation und Kollaboration

April 2, 2009
By Philipp Mueller

Im Februar 2009 veröffentlichte Präsident Obama auf www.whitehouse.gov ein Memo zur Transparenz, Partizipation und Kollaboration, das einen radikalen Umbruch im Verständnis von Verwaltung darstellt. Wenn dieses Memo in aller Konsequenz durchgesetzt wird, wird sich die Logik der Verwaltung in den USA ändern. Es lohnt sich es im Ganzen zu lesen. MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES SUBJECT:      Transparency and Open Government My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of...
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Rethinking the Client

April 2, 2009
By Sebastian Haselbeck

When governments and public administrations interact with their “clients”, this can be a one-way process (the client approaching an institution for a problem, or the institution exercising policy or disseminating information to the clients) or an interactive process. We are entering an era of governance where public institutions (as...
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