Evaluation of experience with the compensation for services rendered

          in accordance to TVöD (Standard rate for public service) in the

          government sector (together with BearingPoint GmbH);

          Contracted by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Berlin, Germany

       Evaluation of the freedom of information laws Mecklenburg-

          Vorpommern within the scope of the legally binding mandate

          pursuant to § 15 IFG M-V (together with Michael Rodi, Universität

          Greifswald); Contracted by the Regional Representative for Data

          Protection and Freedom of Information M-V, Germany

       Scholarly reporting within the scope of the „Global

          Observatory on Local Democracy and Decentralisation"; Country-

          Report „Germany" (together with Hellmut Wollmann); Contracted by

          GRALE – Groupement de Recherche sur l’Administration Locale en

          Europe (Paris)

       Scholarly reporting within the scope of the project „Le

          citoyen et la co-production de service public" (Subproject

          „Deutschland") within the scope of the 5th European Conference on

          Quality of Public Administration (Paris); Contracted by the Ministère

          du Budget et de la Réforme de l’Etat (Paris) in cooperation with the

          Federal Ministry of the Interior Berlin) and Governance International

          (Birmingham)

       Advisory opinion for the “European Public Sector Award (EPSA)”,

          field of “Collaborative Governance”, of the “European Group of Public

         Administration (EGPA)”, of the German University for Administrative

         Sciences in Speyer and the Bertelsmann Endowment.

       Advisory opinion for the young academics prize from the Society for

         Evaluation (DeGEval)

       Report «　Les régions entre l’Etat et les collectivités locales　»

         (Subproject «　Deutschland　»); Contracted by the Ministry of the

         Interior, Paris, France (together with Hellmut Wollmann)

         Public Administration

       Politische Vierteljahresschrift (PVS)

       Zeitschrift für Evaluation (ZfEval)

       Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft (ZfVP)