In this module, students receive a fundamental introduction to Public Management. They learn about the framework conditions (including the relationship between politics and administration) and the theoretical foundations of Public Management. Students are introduced to the basics for understanding public tasks and public institutions and, building on this, gain knowledge of administrative modernization and the reform movements subsumed under it. Students engage with various functional elements of modernization. The module imparts the competence to discuss the transferability of business management tools to administrative practice.