Title: Europe and the Crisis: How European Governments Responded to the Banking Crisis, Economic Crisis and Fiscal Crisis in 2008-2011
Time: 19:00-20:30, May 7th, 2013
Venue: Room 302, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University
Bio of Speaker:
Prof. Walter.J.M. Kickert’s main research themes were management in complex networks, management and organization in central government, autonomisation of executive agencies, reorganizations of ministries and province. He has carried out international comparative research of public management and administrative reform in European countries. In 2012 he was awarded the Routledge prize for outstanding contribution to public management research.
Walter Kickert has graduated in experimental physics in Utrecht, was research assistant in control engineering at London University and did his PhD in organization science in Eindhoven.
Brief Introduction:
Comparative analysis how various large and smaller European states managed the banking crisis 2008, economic crisis 2009 and fiscal crisis in 2010-11. How did states respond to crises? How to explain for the similarities and differences in state responses? What lessons can be learned from comparison? This crisis was undoubtedly major challenge for Western states. Current Euro-crisis since 2010 mounted to new and maybe even more severe crisis.
