Department of Politics and Public Administration

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Areas of Interests

 

Politics and public administration, international administration, non-governmental and non-profit organisations, theories of public administration

 

European Union (especially European Council, Council of Ministers, and European Monetary Union); politics and financial markets; prediction of political events; causes and consequences of political violence; Globalization; terrorism; diversity and political violence; mediation and other forms of conflict management

 

European Integration and Institutions, Single European Market, Decision-making in the EU, i.e. Differentiated Integration, Elections and Democracy in Africa, Conflicts in Africa, Political Violence, Armed Groups, Mediation, Constitution-making following Internal Conflicts, Ethnic Groups and Conflict

 

Personnel management, cooperation and communication in organisational groups, leadership, cooperation and performance in cultural organisations, research on innnovation

 

Information and communication policy, innovation policy, energy policy, politics of climate change, interest groups and democracy, organized business, social and political networks

 

Decision theory, Bayesian statistics, experiments, computer-based simulations

 

Interest groups, lobbying, decition making process in the European Union, European Comission, European Parliament, European parties

 

Labour market policies, academic policies, education, youth unemployment, economic policy, financial and economic crises, reforms of the welfare state, US politics

 

European Union, regional integration, German foreign politics


Public policy in advanced democracies, comparative political economy, political methodology, and budgetary politics

 

                                                                                                                     

Civil wars, ethnic conflicts, modern communication technologies, mobilization and protest in autocratic systems, democratization, computer-based simulations, multi-dimensional data-analysis

 

Problems, governance and reforms of public administrations (national, EU, international); environmental policy, social policy, higher education reform, moral policy (abortion policies, euthanasia, gun control, gambling, drugs, etc.); EU politics and policies

 

Public finance/fiscal transfer, municipal finances, debt brake, federalism in Germany, federalism reforms, the'Bundesrat', multi-level government, intergovernmental relations, public administration, administrative reforms, bureaucracy, administrative ethics, fight against corruption, scandals, political responsibility

 

Happiness, trust, motivation of human beings, trust in stake holders, trust and control in companies, income and motivation

 

Public opinion surveys, elections, direct democracy


 

German and comparative legislative studies, political parties, institutional reform, types of democacy, constitutional courts and democracy

 

 

 

 

Politics of the financial crisis in Europe / Social and Employment Policies in Germany and Scandinavia / Politics, Economy and Society in Scandinavia / Defects of Contemporary Democracies – Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

 

Quantitative and qualitative methods: Advanced data analysis, semi-parametric regression, ecological inference, maximum likelihood estimation, categorical data analysis, latent variabel modelling, reconstruction of political positions from texts, research design in comparative political and social research

Political attidudes and political behavior: Impact of social structure and party competition on voting, political sophistication and opinion formation, strategic voting, political interest and political participation.

 

Employment relations in the public sector, social consequences of European integration, atypical employment/contingent work, flexicurity, mergers of organizations