Friedrich paulsen

| Einrichtung: | Graduate School of Politics |
| Anschrift: | Scharnhorststraße 100 D-48151 Münster |
| E-Mail: | F.Paulsen@gmx.de |
Innovation between path dependency and convergence: Urban development policies in changing contexts
The research focus is on the identification and comparative analysis of innovative practices of public governance in German and US cities, focusing on the cooperation of and power relations between public, private-commercial and private non-profit actors.
Such a practice of public governance – and a consequence as at the same time a cause of current trends in cities (rise of entrepreneurial cities in competition for investment and people; importance of city marketing and reinvention of city images; urban renewal, gentrification and social exclusion; budget constraints, new forms of coalitions in cities, known as governance) – is property-dominated development and modernization of city centers in Germany and the US. Like in a burning glass, the mentioned current issues – maintaining a city’s ability to act, precarious social effects and new coalitions of public governance – condense in this phenomenon of post-modern city politics. It’s the research’s goal to unpack the arguments going along with the post-modern property-led forms of governance in cities.
The research is led by two central questions:
• Which practices of public governance in post modern cities are ascribed as innovative by using which arguments?
• Do these discourses of innovativeness develop more path-dependent (in line with the historic and institutional context) or more convergent?
The research process is separated into three major steps to answer the central research questions:
• The first goal is to describe comparatively the country-specific traditions and characteristics of the emergence and development of local public sector arrangements in the two countries.
• The second goal is to analyze to which changes that occurred in practices of local public governance in the area of post-modern city politics in the two case-study cities of Muenster and Raleigh innovativeness is ascribed on a level of argumentative schemes and discourses. That also means to understand the current debate on reforming local public governance: What are the up-to-date features of innovative public governance in cities?
• The third goal is to investigate which arguments and discourses are used in which specific context to ascribe innovativeness to practices of local public governance and if these arguments fit with the historic-institutional context of the public sector of the city under investigation. That makes possible to respond to the question of convergence versus path-dependency through a discussion of the results of the research.
Das Dissertationsvorhaben von Friedrich Paulsen wird von Prof. Annette Zimmer (Universität Münster, Institut für Politikwissenschaft) und Prof. Steven Rathgeb Smith (Syracuse University, Maxwell School) betreut.
Friedrich Paulsen ist Mitglied der Forschungsgruppe Zivilgesellschaft, sowie des Forschungsnetzwerkes Urban and Regional Innovation.
Friedrich Paulsen hat sich Im Zuge des Forschungsprozesses am American Institute for Contemporary German Studies der Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C. und am Center for Urban and Regional Studies der University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill aufgehalten. Zur Zeit halt er sich als Guest Researcher am BMW Center for German and European Studies der Georgetown University in Washington, D.C, auf.
| 2013 | Guest Researcher am BMW Center for German and European Studies der Georgetown University, Washington D.C. |
| 2012 | Studienaufenthalt am Center for Urban and Regional Studies der University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| 2012 | Experte am American Institute for Contemporary German Studies der Johns Hopkins University, Washington D.C. |
| seit 2011 | Promotionsstipendium der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung |
| seit 2011 | Project Assistant bei der European Research Services GmbH (Teilzeit) |
| 2010 | Aufnahme in die Graduate School of Politics |
| 2010-2011 | Mitarbeiter der Deutschen Hochschule der Polizei: erfolgreiche Einwerbung von Grants der Europäischen Forschungsförderung (FP7) |
| 2009-2011 | Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Tätigkeit in Forschung und Lehre |
| 2009 | Abschluss als Magister Artium |
| 2007-2008 | Studienbegleitende Ausbildung zum Nachhaltigkeitsberater am Institut für Nachhaltigkeitsbildung in Münster und Rheine |
| 2007-2009 | Magisterstudium an der Universität Münster in Politikwissenschaft, Soziologie und Öffentlichem Recht |
| 2006 | Erstellung einer Expertise zur Landreform in Namibia für das Landesbüro der Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Windhoek, Namibia |
| 2005-2009 | Studentische, ab 2007 wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft am Institut für Politikwissenschaft der Universität Münster, Lehrstuhl für Europäische Sozialpolitik |
| 2005 | Gaststudent an der Universität Amazoniens (UNAMA) in Belem, Para, Brasilien |
| 2004-2009 | Stipendiat der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Grundförderung |
| 2003-2007 | Bachelorstudium: B.A./B.Sc. Public Administration (inhaltliche Orientierung: Europastudien, Entwicklungspolitik) an der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Institut für Politikwissenschaft) und der niederländischen Universiteit Twente (School of Management and Governance) |
| 2000-2003 | Abitur am Gymnasium Augustinianum, Greven |
Solid experience in managing European Research projects:
Friedrich Paulsen has solid experience of the administration in EU projects under the 7th Framework Programme, at present he supports 2 collaborative projects (WILCO and COREPOL) and an IRSES (mobility) project.
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