Last week we launched mappp – the atlas for politics, processes and participation. It is based on the joint work with Gestaltungszentrale Politik. Our release event in Berlin’s Delphi Lux Cinema had free popcorn for all. And a short movie that is online now, too (watch it below). And please check out the mappp!
Faculty and staff are invited to attend Colorado College Visiting Professor of German & Political Science Sven Siefken’s Faculty Lunch talk on “Hot or Cold Politics? Political Decision Making in a Parliamentary Democracy”. How does an idea become a law? This fundamental question of political decision making will be analyzed for the parliamentary democracy of…
Coming up in January 2026: The Practice of Legislation, an event organized by Hermann Hill at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer. Sven T. Siefken will present research conducted on the early stages of the legislative process, both in a formal and informal perspective. You can sign up for the event here: https://weiterbildung.uni-speyer.de/suche/veranstaltungsdetails.html?courseId=588-C-4382895
In a Workshop organized by the Netzwerk Organisationsverfassung, Sven T. Siefken presented the the cartography of legislation; identifying veto points, discussing the numerous veto points and the role of the Chancellery in coordination and strategic management.
At the German University of Public Administration in Speyer, Sven T. Siefken was invited as guest speaker in the graduate lecture on the “Foundations of Public Decision Making”. He presented and discussed the many steps in the legislative process and their implications: Veto points, coordination mechanisms, oversight and engagement.
During this week’s conference “Behavioral Insights – Impact on Modernizing Government” our working group of practitioners and students discussed how visual approaches can help understand, analyze and communicate inside public administration, to political decision makers and towards the broader public. Visual approaches provide plenty of untapped opportunities … but dangers of oversimplification and even manipulation…
The academic journal „The Theory and Practice of Legislation“ has published a new special issue titled „How much legislating in a legislature? Democratisation, de-democratisation and beyond“. It compiles various case studies on recent development of democracy, among them Poland, Indonesia, India and Bolivia. They shine a light on how parliaments suffer from processes of de-democratization,…