Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy

Meiji reformers consulted him on the drafting of the new Japanese constitution.

University of Halle and the University of Frankfurt an der Oder with the specific aim that they should train professional public administrators. In the mid to late 19th Century a German Professor, Lorenz von Stein, lecturing at the University of Vienna, established public administration as an interdisciplinary study that would be broadly recognisable today.

The university-based study and teaching of public administration probably traces its origins to the efforts in the late 17th and early 18th Centuries of the largest German state, the Kingdom of Prussia,3 to combat nepotism and corruption in its civil service. As part of his programme of reforms, the Prussian King, Frederick William I, established the first University Chairs for the study o