Alexa Lenz

Alexa Lenz is a doctoral researcher and research fellow at the chair of Public Administration and Organization Theory at University of Konstanz. She is working within the joint research project „Emergence and social effects of hybrid organizations in local crisis management (HybOrg)“, which examines how state institutions engage in crisis management activities at the local level, as well as how such efforts can help generate valuable social capital. The project aims to create a systematic record of administrative action within the realm of crisis management, analyze its effects on social cohesion, and formulate a set of concrete recommendations for relevant stakeholders.

In her PhD project, she studies public perceptions of administrative performance with a special focus on crisis management and social capital.

Alexa completed her bachelor’s program in Political Science and Media Studies at the University of Regensburg and the Universidad Austral de Chile. She holds a master’s degree in Political Science from the LMU Munich and a master’s degree in Current Democracies: Nationalism, Federalism and Multiculturalism from the UPF Barcelona, with focus on the study of political behavior and political sociology.

Publications & working papers

Eckhard, S., Lenz, A., Seibel, W., Roth, F., & Fatke, M. (2020). Latent Hybridity in Administrative Crisis Management: The German Refugee Crisis of 2015/16. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/muaa039

Lenz, A., Eckhard, S., Obermaier, K. & Hoffmann, P. (2021). Wie nimmt die Bevölkerung das Krisenmanagement während der Covid-19 Pandemie wahr? Repräsentative Bevölkerungsbefragung zur öffentlichen Wahrnehmung in der Covid-19 Pandemie. University of Konstanz, KOPS. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-2-cwtrntsqw5wm2 

Lenz, A. (2021). Trust in Times of Crisis: The Pitfalls of cooperation between Volunteers and Local Government. Working paper, presented at DVPW 2021 & ECPR 2020.

Lenz, A. & Eckhard, S. (2021). Explaining variation in citizen perceptions of government crisis management in the Covid-19 pandemic: The role of local administrations. Working paper, presented at ECPR General Conference 2021.

Lenz, A. (2021). Crisis management on the local level: dilemmas and social division. Working Paper presented at the LMU Workshop on “The Practical Relevance of Theory in Times of Societal Division”, July 2021.

Lenz, A. & Eckhard, S. (2020): Non-bureaucratic Behavior in Times of Crisis – Rule-breaking and Risky Decisions in Public Administration. Working paper, presented at the ECPR General Conference, Innsbruck, Austria. 

Roth, F., Käser, M., Lenz, A., Eckhard, S., Wiese, L. & Seibel, W. (2019). Wege zur Einbindung von Freiwilligen - Lehren aus der sogenannten Flüchtlingskrise. Behördenspiegel, 12/2019. https://bit.ly/3crKiaO

Lenz, A. (2017). Völkisch‘ and ‘Überfremdung‘ Different Enemies, Same Fascist Ideology? Fascism: Old and New. Verticals Public Seminar. https://publicseminar.org/2017/07/volkisch-and-uberfremdung/

Conferences & workshops

2021:

  • 28. Wissenschaftlicher Kongress der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft (DVPW), September 14th – 16th, online.
  • EGPA Conference, 2021, “Resilience and Agility of Public Institutions in Times of Crises”,  Brussels, 7.-10-9 2021.
  • ECPR General Conference, August 30th – September 3rd, Innsbruck, Austria (online).
  • Social Cohesion in Times of Crises Concepts, Approaches and Perspectives. Research Institute Social Cohesion, July 5th – 7th, online.
  • IRSPM Conference 2021 - Public Management, Governance and Policy in Extraordinary Times: Challenges and Opportunities, April 20th-23rd, online.

2020:

  • ECPR General Conference, August 26th - 28th, online.

2019:

  • Workshop “Local Public Management in the Refugee Crisis”, December 3rd - 4th, Utrecht School of Governance, Netherlands. 
  • EGPA Conference, September 11th - 13th, Belfast, UK.
  • ECPR General Conference, September 4th - 6th, Wroclaw, Poland.
  • Research workshop Field Access & Expert Interviews, May 6th - 7th, University of Konstanz.

2018:

  • NIG Annual Work Conference, November 1st - 2nd, The Hague, Netherlands.
  • Politicologenetmaal, June 7th - 8th, Leiden, Netherlands.