Prof. Dr Jörg Faust
Jörg Faust is director of the German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval) and Extraordinary Professor of Political Science at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He holds a doctoral degree in political science from the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and a Master in Business Administration from Mannheim University. Before joining DEval he was Head of Department at the German Development Institute (DIE). He is the Chair of the OECD/DAC Network on Development Evaluation (EvalNet) and a member of the scientific advisory board for the Bertelsmann Transformation Index (BTI).
Key qualifications
- Thematic focus
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bilateral and multilateral development cooperation,
political determinants of economic development,
democratisation and decentralisation processes,
fragile states,
conflict studies
- Methodological focus
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Quantitative and qualitative methods of empirical social research and evaluation
Research and evaluation management
Publications
- Manipulating the Masses? Right-Wing Populist Messages, Political Ideology, and Public Support for Multilateral Development Aid in Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom
- Under Challenging Conditions. Development Cooperation in Fragile States
- Policy Brief: Strengthening the Role of Partner Countries in Evaluating Development Cooperation: A Framework for Analysis
- Implementation of Recommendations from DEval Evaluations. Synthesis of the Implementation Monitoring of DEval Evaluation Recommendations (2015-2018)
- Unter erschwerten Bedingungen. Entwicklungszusammenarbeit in fragilen Staaten
- Umsetzung von Empfehlungen aus Evaluierungen des DEval. Erste Synthese des Monitorings der Umsetzung von Evaluierungsempfehlungen des DEval (2015 – 2018)
- Aid Management, Trust, and Development Policy Influence: New Evidence from a Survey of Public Sector Officials in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries
- Does the COVID-19 pandemic threaten global solidarity? Evidence from Germany
- Policy Brief: Öffentliche Meinung zu internationaler Solidarität in der Corona-Pandemie
- Policy Brief: Public Opinion on International Solidarity in the Coronavirus Pandemic
- Rigorose Wirkungsevaluierung – Genese, Debatte und Nutzung in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
- Evaluation: Standards in unterschiedlichen Handlungsfeldern Einheitliche Qualitätsansprüche trotz heterogener Praxis?
- DEval Brief: Öffentliche Meinung und internationale Solidarität in der Corona-Pandemie
- DEval Brief: Public Opinion and International Solidarity in the Corona Pandemic
- Policy Brief: Rigorose Wirkungsevaluierung in der deutschen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
- Policy Brief: Rigorous Impact Evaluation in German Development Cooperation
- Policy Brief: Die DAC-Evaluierungskriterien: zwischen Optimierung und Transformation
- Policy Brief: The OECD-DAC Evaluation Criteria: To Reform or to Transform?
- Ein Interview mit Olga Marta Sánchez Oviedo, Planungsministerin von Costa Rica, und Jörg Faust, Direktor des DEval
- Lernen fördern. Transparenz schaffen. 5 Jahre DEval 2012 – 2017
- Who Cares? European Public Opinion on Foreign Aid and Political Conditionality
- Policy Brief: Die deutsche Entwicklungszusammenarbeit aus Partnerperspektive
- German Aid from a Partner Perspective
Selected Publications
Bayram, A. B., Schneider, S. H., Faust, J., & Thomson, C. (2024). Manipulating the masses? Right-wing populist messages, political ideology, and public support for multilateral development aid in Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Journal of International Development, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3927
Masaki, T., Parks, B. C., Faust, J., Leiderer, S., DiLorenzo, M. D. (2021), "Aid Management, Trust, and Development Policy Influence: New Evidence from a Survey of Public Sector Officials in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries", Studies in Comparative International Development.
Schneider, S. H., J. Eger, M. Bruder, J. Faust, L. H. Wieler (2020), "Does the COVID-19 pandemic threaten global solidarity? Evidence from Germany", World Development, Volume 140, 2021.
Bär, T., Faust, J., von Jan, S., Meyer, W. & Wein, S. (2019), „Die DeGEval-Standards in der deutschen bilateralen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit." Evaluation: Standards in unterschiedlichen Handlungsfeldern. hrsg. H.U. Hense, W. Böttcher, M. Kalman, W. Meyer. Münster, S. 165-183.
Bruder, M., Faust, J., & Krämer, M. (2019). Rigorous Impact Evaluation in German Development Cooperation. Policy Brief 05/2019. German Institute for Development Coopartion (DEval), Bonn.
Faust, J. & Verspohl, I. (2018). The OECD-DAC evaluation criteria: To reform or to transform? Policy Brief 09/18. German Institute for Development Coopartion (DEval), Bonn.
Bodenstein, T., Faust, J., Furness, M. (2017), “European Union Development Policy: Collective action in times of global transformation and domestic crisis”, Development Policy Review, Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 441 – 453.
Bodenstein, T., Faust, J. (2017), “Who Cares? European Public Opinion on Foreign Aid and Political Conditionality”, JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 55, No. 5, pp. 955 – 973.
Koch, S., Leiderer, S., Faust, J., Molenaers, N. (2017), “The rise and demise of European budget support: political economy of collective European Union donor action”, Development Policy Review, Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 455 – 473.
Parks, B. C., Masaki, T., Faust, J., Leiderer, S. (2016), “Aid management, trust, and development policy influence: New evidence from a survey of public sector officials in low-income and middle-income countries”, AidData Working Paper, No. 30.
Faust, J. (2016), „Entwicklungstheorien und Entwicklungspolitik”, Politikwissenschaft. Eine Einführung, 8. Ed., edited by Hans-Joachim Lauth and Christian Wagner, Paderborn, pp. 322 – 356.
Faust, J., Grävingholt, J., Ziaja, S. (2015), “Foreign aid and the fragile consensus on state fragility”, Journal of International Relations and Development, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 407 – 427.
Molenaers, N., Dellepiane, S., Faust, J. (2015), “Political Conditionality and Foreign Aid”, World Development, Vol. 75, pp. 2 – 12.
Bader, J., Faust, J. (2014), “Foreign aid, democratization, and autocratic survival”, International Studies Review, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 575 – 595.
Faust, J., Garcia, M. M. (2014), “With or without force? European public opinion on democracy promotion”, JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 52, No. 4, pp. 861 – 878.
Faust, J., Leiderer, S., Schmitt, J. (2012), “Financing poverty alleviation vs. promoting democracy? Multi-donor budget support in Zambia”, Democratization, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 438 – 464.
Faust, J., Messner, D. (2012), „Probleme globaler Entwicklung und die ministerielle Organisation der Entwicklungspolitik“, Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 165 – 175.
Faust, J., Harbers, I. (2012), “On the local politics of administrative decentralization: applying for policy responsibilities in Ecuador”, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 52 – 77.
Faust, J. (2010), “Policy experiments, democratic ownership and development assistance”, Development Policy Review, Vol. 28; No. 5, pp. 515 – 534.
Faust, J., Leiderer, S. (2010), „Die Effektivität der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit–Ergebnisse des ökonometrischen Ländervergleichs“, Wirksamere Entwicklungspolitik: Befunde, Reformen, Instrumente (Entwicklungstheorie und Entwicklungspolitik, Bd. 8), edited by Jörg Faust and Susanne Neubert, Baden-Baden, pp. 166 – 189.
Conzelmann, T., Faust, J. (2009), „‘Nord‘ und ‚Süd‘ im globalen Regieren, Politische Vierteljahresschrift, Vol. 50, No. 2, pp. 203 – 225.
Faust, J., Messner, D. (2008), „Arm, aber einflussreich: ‚Ankerländer‘ als außenpolitische Herausforderung“, Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, Vol. 43, pp. 28 – 34.
Faust, J. (2008), “Are more democratic donor countries more development oriented? Domestic institutions and external development promotion in OECD countries”, World Development, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 383 – 398.
Faust, J. (2007), “Democracy's dividend: Political order and economic productivity”, World Political Science, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 1 – 29.
Faust, J., Messner, D. (2005), “Europe's new security strategy: challenges for development policy”, The European Journal of Development Research, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 423 – 436.
Faust, J., Marx, J. (2004), „Zwischen Kultur und Kalkül? Vertrauen und Sozialkapital im Kontext der neoinstitutionalistischen Wende“, Swiss Political Science Review, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 29 – 55.