- Graduate School
Standards of Governance
- Humanities and Social Sciences
The DFG-funded Research Training Group "Standards of Governance" at TU Darmstadt and Goethe University Frankfurt is concerned with ideas and practices for which the term "good governance" as become established. This includes general norms such as transparency, participation and accountability of those in power, but also very specific ones such as gender equality, anti-corruption and systematic evaluation of policies, depending on the concept. The requirements of "good governance" set standards in both the public and the private sector, from states and municipalities, listed companies, financial market players to non-governmental organizations. Today, they are all assessed and ranked according to their performance on scales of "good governance".
The Research Training Group brings together perspectives from political science, sociology, philosophy and law. Its focus is on key questions that sharpen the understanding of standards of governance: How do such standards emerge? Why are they codified? Why do they spread across boundaries? How are they implemented in practice and how is compliance measured? How are they enforced? Why is resistance being formed? In order to answer these questions, the Research Training Group combines research and qualification in a structured doctoral program in the context of which results are presented in public lectures and publications.
Speaker: Prof. Jens Steffek (TU Darmstadt). Deputy Speaker: Prof. Sandra Seubert (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Funding period: 2023 to 2028.
