讲座主题一：Evaluating  public sector reform in Europe. This talk is based on the large COCOPS survey the speaker did among all top civil servants in 19 countries  

讲座主题二：How do citizens react to public service decline? This is a talk based on a number of experiments to see how people react and who they blame when a public service fails.  

讲座嘉宾：Professor Steven Van de Walle，Erasmus University Rotterdam  

主持人：吴建南教授，国际与公共事务学院常务副院长  

时间：2016年4月11日（周一）下午2点半  

地点：徐汇校区新建楼3005室  

嘉宾简介：Steven Van de Walle is Professor of Comparative Public Administration at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Before joining Erasmus University, he worked as a lecturer at the University of Birmingham and as a visiting researcher at Syracuse University. He started his career at the Public Management Institute, Leuven University (Belgium), where he also earned his PhD in the Social Sciences in 2004. He has published over 30 peer-reviewed articles in international and national journals including, and edited a number of books. He sits on the editorial board of 5 journals, and is associate editor of one. His past research, funded by national research councils in the Netherlands, Belgium and the UK includes research on citizens’ perceptions of the public sector, public sector performance, comparative public administration, and trust in government. He worked on research projects and as consultant to a number of public sector bodies, including OECD, the Audit Commission, the Ministry of Justice, the Belgian Federal Government, and the Dutch Ministry of the Interior. He was co-chair of the Permanent Study Group on Performance in the Public Sector within the European Group of Public Administration, and is currently chairing the IIAS Study group on trust and Public Attitudes. He is also coordinator of the FP7-funded COCOPS project (Coordinating for Cohesion in the Public Sector of the Future). With a budget of nearly 2.7 million € and scholars from 11 universities in 10 countries this is currently one of the largest comparative public management research projects in Europe. In 2013, a large project on socialisation of public officials and client-government interactions started.