Though initially popularised by field experiments on improving health and well-being, nudging has undeniably become a prominent tool across a wide array of policy areas, including development. Hertie visiting professor Robert Lepenies discusses the practical… [Read more]
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The Governance Post Event Series – Call for Student Applications
Hertie students often propose innovative ideas for public events with external speakers and audiences to the School’s administration. The Hertie School welcomes all kinds of extra-curricular initiatives, but given limited capacity, it is able to… [Read more]
What a Way to Make a Living: Katri Bertram and Stephan Höyng on Gender and Labour
In April 2017, the Hertie School’s Gender Equality and Sexuality Club held its first “Cracking the Ceiling” Gender and Labour Conference. Governance Post editors Isabela Vera, Lisa Gow and Sara Cooper talked to two speakers… [Read more]
“Let the data take you places”: A Report on DataFest Germany 2017
“Let the data take you places” was the statement chosen to inaugurate DataFest Germany, a competition held at the University of Mannheim in which a small team of Hertie students participated in April 2017. In the… [Read more]
The EU and Kosovo: Steps Forward
Following a roundtable discussion organised last March by the Hertie IR Club, MIA student Rina Hajdari reflects on the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead in the relationship between Kosovo and the European Union. Kosovo, Europe’s youngest country… [Read more]
Global Health and Public Goods: An Interview with Julius Murke
Julius Murke is one of the founding members of Young Leaders for Health (YLH), an organisation composed of 24 students and young professionals that aims to build a platform providing education, research and advocacy in… [Read more]
Could Net-Metering Save Obama’s Climate Change Legacy?
As the Trump administration is ever-more adamant about dismantling Obama’s climate legacy, MPP student Kimberly Liu investigates federal and state-level efforts to integrate net-metering, a technology that could potentially safeguard the US against the effects… [Read more]
DeFacto – Discussing this Sunday’s French Presidential Election
With the French presidential election coming to a close this Sunday, our editors Joseph and Nathan sat down with DeFacto hosts Julian Lang and Ricardo Salas to discuss the result of the first round, uncertainties… [Read more]
Will She Make it to the Second Round?
As the outcome of the first round in this year’s French presidential election will be known this Sunday, MPP student Pierre Daix-Moreux presents his own statistical forecast, with an important focus on one of the… [Read more]
Strangers in a Strange Land: The Experience of Female Refugees in Germany
As the integration of refugees in Germany becomes an an increasingly pressing issue, MPP student and Governance Post editor Vaishali Venkatesh Prasad takes a deeper look at the hardships faced by women in refugee centres.… [Read more]