Harvard Kennedy School (HKS),officially the John F. Kennedy School of Government,is the school of public policy and government of Harvard University in Cambridge,Massachusetts. The school has routinely ranked as the best,or among the best,of the world's public policy graduate schools. Harvard Kennedy School offers master's degrees in public policy,public administration,and international development,four doctoral degrees,and various executive education programs. It conducts research in subjects relating to politics,government,international affairs,and economics. As of 2021,HKS had an endowment of $1.7 billion. It is a member of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA),a global consortium of schools that trains leaders in international affairs.
The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs is the professional public policy school of Syracuse University,a private research university in Syracuse,New York. The school is organized in 11 academic departments and 13 affiliated research centers and offers coursework in the fields of public administration,international relations,foreign policy,political Science,science and technology policy,social sciences,and economics through its undergraduate (BA) degrees,graduate Master of Public Affairs (MPA),Master of Arts (MA),and PhD degrees.
The administrative divisions of Ukraine are under the jurisdiction of the Ukrainian Constitution. Ukraine is a unitary state with three levels of administrative divisions:27 regions,136 raions (districts) and 1469 hromadas.
Stephen Frand Cohen was an American scholar of Russian studies. His academic work concentrated on modern Russian history since the Bolshevik Revolution and Russia's relationship with the United States.
The School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) is the international affairs and public policy school of Columbia University,a private Ivy League university located in Morningside Heights,Manhattan,New York City. SIPA offers Master of International Affairs (MIA) and Master of Public Administration (MPA) degrees in a range of fields,as well as the Executive MPA and PhD program in Sustainable Development.
Richard Sakwa is a British political scientist and a former professor of Russian and European politics at the University of Kent,a senior research fellow at the National Research University-Higher School of Economics in Moscow,and an honorary professor in the Faculty of Political Science at Moscow State University. He has written books about Russian,Central and Eastern European communist and post-communist politics.
David H. Rosenbloom is a scholar in the field of Public Administration. He is the Distinguished Professor of Public Administration at the School of Public Affairs at American University in Washington,D.C. An authority on issues related to administrative law and constitutional aspects of public sector personnel policies,Rosenbloom is known for his approach emphasizing understanding American public administration from the three perspectives associated with the constitutional separation of powers:law,politics and management. He advocates establishing "constitutional competence" as a basic standard for public service professionals.
The American University School of Public Affairs (SPA) is an institution of higher education and research located in Washington,D.C. that grants academic degrees in political science,public administration,public policy,and justice,law,and criminology. Established in 1934 as part of American University,the school houses three academic departments - Public Administration &Policy,Government,and Justice,Law &Criminology - as well as ten centers and institutes.
The Paul H.O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs is the public policy and environmental studies school of Indiana University with locations on both the Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses. It is the largest and highest-ranked public policy and environmental studies school of its kind in the United States. Founded in 1972,as the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs,it was the first school to combine public management,policy,and administration with the environmental sciences. O'Neill School Bloomington is the top ranked school of public affairs in the United States. The school received a facelift and expansion when the Paul O'Neill Graduate Center opened for classes in the Spring 2017 semester due to the growing influx of students. In 2019,the name was changed to the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs in honor of alumnus Paul H. O'Neill who served as the United States Secretary of the Treasury in 2001–2002.
David Bruce Audretsch is an American economist. He is a distinguished professor at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) at Indiana University and also serves as director of the SPEA International Office,Ameritech Chair of Economic Development,and director of SPEA's Institute for Development Strategies (IDS). He is co-founder and co-editor of Small Business Economics:An Entrepreneurship Journal,and also works as a consultant to the United Nations,the World Bank,the OECD,the EU Commission,and the U.S. Department of State. He was the director of the Entrepreneurship,Growth and Public Policy Group at the Max Planck Institute of Economics in Germany from 2003 to 2009. Since 2020,he also serves as a distinguished professor in the Department of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship at the University of Klagenfurt.
Paul J. D'Anieri is Professor of Public Policy and Political Science and former Executive Vice Chancellor &Provost of University of California,Riverside. Prior to his position at UCR,Dr. D'Anieri served as the dean of the University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS),from July 2008-June 2014 and the associate dean for humanities from 2004 to 2008 and associate dean for international programs from 1999 to 2003 at the University of Kansas.
John D. Graham is a former senior official in the George W. Bush administration and the former dean of the Indiana University O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Graham stepped down from the deanship to return to the O'Neill School faculty in the 2019 academic year.
Taras Kuzio is a Professor of Political Science at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. His area of study is Russian and Ukrainian political,economic and security affairs.
The German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer,is a national graduate school for administrative sciences and public management located in Speyer,Rhineland-Palatinate,Germany. Founded in 1947 by the French occupational authorities as a grande école,today it is operated under the joint responsibility of both the Federal Republic (Bund) and all 16 German states (Länder). It runs four Master's programs,grants doctoral degrees and habilitations,offers a postgraduate certificate program,and administers programs of executive education. The school is a major training ground for German and international senior government officials. Noted alumni and faculty include former President of Germany Roman Herzog,Professor Niklas Luhmann;former Minister of Defence Christine Lambrecht,current Justice at the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany Heinrich Amadeus Wolff,former President of the Bundesbank Helmut Schlesinger,former Prosecutor General of Germany Alexander von Stahl,and CEO of BASF Jürgen Strube.
The Maidan People's Union is an alliance in Ukraine formed by several political parties and non-partisan individuals and public organizations on the fifth Sunday of the Euromaidan-protests with the aim of "building a new Ukraine and a new Ukrainian government" by creating a new Ukrainian constitution,and removing corrupt judges and prosecutors. It also aims to organize opposition to the current regime and to coordinate the protest movement in all regions of the country. In practice this means broadening support for the goals of the organization in the pro-government and pro-presidential heartland East Ukraine.
The CEVRO Institute is a private university in Prague,Czech Republic,established in 2005 by CEVRO,a think-tank affiliated with the Civic Democratic Party (ODS).
Robert Agranoff was an American political scientist and public administration scholar and author. A Professor Emeritus at the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs,Agranoff was best known for his contributions to the field of collaborative public management and intergovernmental management.
Maureen Pirog is an American scholar and policy analyst. A leading authority in family assistance,child support and poverty in the United States,she is the Rudy Professor of Policy Analysis at Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs.
The Dnipropetrovsk Mafia,also known as the Dnipropetrovsk clan or simply Dnipropetrovtsi,is a group of Ukrainian oligarchs,politicians,and organised crime figures,and formerly Soviet politicians. While two separate groups,both iterations of the Dnipropetrovsk Mafia have been linked by their powerful influence on Ukraine and base in the southern Ukrainian city of Dnipro.
The 1990 Ukrainian local elections took place on 4 March 1990 when Ukraine,as the Ukrainian SSR was still a part of the Soviet Union. In these relatively free elections electoral commissions managed to block the participation of most opposition group candidates while "acceptable social organisations" were permitted to register.
