Beginning
For the past few years I have been conducting research on various public authorities, more specifically, security institutions. Jobs that have been recognized with awards for scientific quality of the Ministry of Defense, the Army and the Spanish Association of Political Science and Administration. In the course of these projects an intercollegiate team has been developed, where collaborators has been in and out according to research projects, but it has established a network of interests and concerns shared complicity. In turn, as the result of performing my regular teaching as a professor at the University of Barcelona, a research associate professor IBEI CIDOB (Barcelona Institute for International Studies) and the CIS (Center for International Studies), I have supervised several and diverse doctoral thesis, but all under the umbrella concept of public administration. Studies that have expanded my interests to other Administrations and other facets of the administration and that have opened thus new research, many of these projects have mandatory group. From this reality and to new needs that it required us to form the idea of GRAPA.
This website is designed to define the relationship with our colleagues in academia and public sector professionals. These space, that stills today in development, seeks to highlight the results of our work, advertise interest that arises in our areas of study and facilitate contact with the group.
Rafa Martínez (2011)
Lines of Research
Security and Defence
Studies on the structure, functions and control mechanisms of the intelligence services, the armed forces and security forces and the state. Analysis of the privatization of public safety functions and civil-military relations.
Public Service
Essentially the analysis of civil servant’s productivity under management by objectives, the performance appraisal and the problems that absenteeism causes the organization.
Team GRAPA
