Autor: Patrick Overeem

Dr Patrick Overeem is an assistant professor at the Institute of Public Administration at Leiden University in the Netherlands, where he specialises in political and administrative theory, with a special interest in public ethics. For his doctoral dissertation (2010; published 2012), he studied the constitutional rationale for disentangling politics and administration in modern states. Articles have been published in Public Administration Review, Administration & Society and Administrative Theory & Praxis. His current research concerns constitutional legitimacy, virtue-ethics (especially MacIntyre’s), statesmanship, and the political implications of value pluralism. He teaches courses on political philosophy, administrative ethics, public values, and the philosophy of social science.