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Reclaiming Public Value

What are public institutions for, and how can they show it?

The programme studies how public organisations define their mandate, organise their services and demonstrate results to parliaments, ministries and citizens. Its work includes the M3 framework (mandate, mechanism, measurement), research on service models and decision-making patterns in public agencies, and practitioner perspectives on innovation policy and on public trust in information.

This programme across the three pillars

Public Policy

How governments set missions and create the conditions in which public and private actors deliver value together.

Reclaiming Public Value (2026) · Debating Conflict, war and revolution: Introduction to the special section (2023)
Public Administration

How public organisations choose their service models, take decisions and measure the results they deliver.

Successful Innovation Policy (2026) · Service Model Analysis (2026)
Public Finance

How public financial instruments for innovation and infrastructure can be designed to serve their public purpose.

Strategic renewal (2025) · Public Management (2022)

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All research in this programme
PillarAllPublic PolicyPublic AdministrationPublic Finance

Experts in this programme

Prof Dr Henning Meyer

Director · Lead, Reclaiming Public Value

Prof Dr Andreas Klasen

Director · Lead, Strategic Collaboration

Prof Dr Kuno Schedler

Distinguished Fellow

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