• Top result in the Shanghai Global Ranking 2023
    1st place in Germany, 38th place worldwide

    In the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2023, the University of Konstanz achieved the 1st place nationwide in the category "Political Sciences".  With the 38th place, the department reaches the worldwide top 50. These results reinforce the department's claim to be a top location for political science and public administration in Germany. The department was able to even surpass its very good results from the previous year (2022: 42nd place globally; 2nd place nationally). In the category "Public Administration", the University of Konstanz achieved, as in the previous year, a place in the global ranking group 51-75. Among German universities, this corresponds to ranking group 2-3 and is also an improvement compared to the previous year (2022 ranking: group 3-4 nationally).

  • The latest department
    newsletter No. 33 is released

    The department newsletter No. 33 has been published!

    You can download the newsletter here.

  • Politics and Public Administration - Our Mission - Our Research

    The Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz is one of the largest social science departments in Germany. We are recognized for excellent research and teaching in four areas of expertise: (i) democracy and public policy, (ii) international studies (iii) management and public administration, as well as (iv) data and methods. We place our students in top positions in academia, and the public, private and non-profit sectors – in Germany, Europe and worldwide.

Current news

Alexander Horn wins SER prize for the best article

Alexander Horn, Anthony Kevins and Kees van Kersbergen jointly win the SER prize for the best article.  The paper The Paternalist Politics of Punitive and Enabling Workfare: Evidence from a New Dataset on Workfare Reforms in 16 Countries, 1980-2015 convinced the committee. As a result, it is considered the best article published in the Socio-Economic Review in 2023. The award committee was deeply impressed by the high quality.

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Prof. Dr. Gerald Schneider comments on the Middle East conflict

In a report by Perspective Daily, Prof. Dr. Gerald Schneider comments on 5 questions in the Middle East conflict that are asked far too rarely. He discusses the failure of past peace plans and what we can learn from them. He explains the mediation role of the EU, the USA and the Arab states and points out common interests between Israelis and Palestinians. The full report in German is available here.

The Department congratulates Leslie Fischer for the Christiane Rajewsky Award!

Leslie Fischer, graduate of the M.A. in Politics and Puiblic Administration, receives the Christiane Rajewsky Prize of the Association for Peace and Conflict Research for her outstanding Master's thesis. Ms Fischer receives the prize for her thesis "Victimised societies and voter turnout: A natural experiment assessing the price of indifference to conflict-related sexual violence", in which she uses a natural experiment to investigate the long-term political effects of conflict-related sexual…

The silent majority on the streets? Who actually goes to demonstrations against right-wing extremism.

Since the beginning of 2024, protests against right-wing extremism have been very popular across Germany. But is it really a "silent majority" that is standing up for democracy? Marco Bitschnau and Sebastian Koos found that the participants mostly feel they belong to the upper middle class, are politically left of centre and have above-average educational qualifications. Many have no experience of protesting and are concerned about the rise of the AfD, but are more nuanced when it comes to…

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