- Wolfgang Drechsler
Wolfgang Drechsler (born
June 6 ,1963 ,Marburg ,Germany ) is a Public Administration,Political Philosophy andInnovation Policy scholar. He is Professor and Chair ofGovernance , and one of the founders and directors of theTechnology Governance program, at theTallinn University of Technology ,Tallinn ,Estonia .Drechsler holds degrees from
Bridgewater College , theUniversity of Virginia , theUniversity of Marburg , and the [http://www.hfv-speyer.de/ENGL/ German Post-Graduate School of Public Administration]Speyer . Between 1993 and 2006, he wasProfessor ofPublic Administration andGovernment at theUniversity of Tartu . Before coming to Estonia, and during this time, he taught at Universities of Marburg, Giessen, and Frankfurt am Main, all Germany. He was Visiting Professor ofSociology in Lund,Sweden , in 1997, and ofGovernance at theUniversity of Erfurt , Germany, in 2007. Drechsler also teaches at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel, Germany. He has served as Advisor to thePresident of Estonia , as Executive Secretary with the German " [http://www.wissenschaftsrat.de/ Wissenschaftsrat] " duringGerman reunification , and, as an [http://www.apsanet.org/ APSA]Congress ional Fellow, a Senior Legislative Analyst in theUnited States Congress . He was the Vice Chairman of the executive board of [http://www.praxis.ee/ Praxis] , Estonia’s pre-eminent public policy think-tank, and a member of the [http://www.tan.ee/tan/en/innovation Innovation Policy Council] of the [http://www.mkm.ee/eng/ Estonian Ministry of Economics] .In Public Administration, Drechsler emphasizes the non-technocratic, non-managerial, "state sciences" approach that focuses on
effectiveness rather than efficiency. In economics and public policy, he is a strong protagonist of the role of the state in economic growth and ofinnovation and industrial policy. He serves or has served as an advisor, especially in the areas of public manangement reform and innovation policy as well as e-governance, for national governments and international organizations, such as theOECD ,Council of Europe , SIGMA,World Bank ,European Union (Lisbon Strategy ),Inter-American Development Bank , andUnited Nations (UNDP ); he has worked, in different capacities, on the national development plans of, e.g., Estonia,Mongolia ,Kazakhstan ,Peru ,Brazil , andNorway . Philosophically, Drechsler is a classical Hermeneutician, as one of the last students of the lateHans-Georg Gadamer .Drechsler received the 1997 Estonian National Science Award, Social Science category, the 2001 Alena Brunovskà Award for Teaching Excellence in Public Administration, the 2002 Outstanding
Alumnus Award fromBridgewater College , where he also delivered the annual W. Harold Row Endowed Lecture, in 2004, the [http://www.riik.ee/teenetemargid/maarjamaa_rist_en.html Maarjamaa Rist] , Estonia's Order of Merit, and in 2005, the German one, theBundesverdienstkreuz .Book Publications
* "
Friedrich Nietzsche : Economy and Society" (2006, co-ed.)
* "Kaiserliche Universität Dorpat 200 - Academia Gustaviana 370 - Das Jubiläum der Universität Tartu" (2004, co-ed.)
*" [http://users.ox.ac.uk/~scat1663/Publications/Papers/Govern%20Capacities.htm Enhancing the Capacities to Govern: Challenges Facing the CEE Countries] " (2004, co-ed.)
*"Good and Bad Government" (2001; onAmbrogio Lorenzetti ’sSiena frescoes)
*"Die selbstverwaltete Gemeinde" (1999, ed.)
*"Paradiama (Otto Kaiser 75)", "Trames" (1999, ed.)
*"On the Eminence of the Social Sciences at the University of Dorpat" (1998, also in Estonian)
*"Foundations of Public Administration" (1997, ed., in Estonian)
*Johann Ulrich v. Cramer’s "Opuscula" (5 vols., 1996, ed.)
*"Estonia in Transition", "World Affairs" (1995, ed.)
*"Reforming Higher Education and Research in Eastern Germany", "World Affairs" (1992, ed.)
*"Andrew D. White in Germany" (1989)External links
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