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Reference No.: 2024/047. The start date is June 1st, 2024. The position is available initially for four years with option to extend. Until January 2025 the working hours can be increased to 65 %. Increases of working hours after January 2025 are intended, contingent on successful acquisition of third-party funding by the head of the working group of Public Administration.

Die AG Verwaltungswissenschaft sucht Masterstudierende, welche ihre Abschlussarbeit zum Thema „Überlastung süddeutscher Ämter“ schreiben möchten. Die Teilnahme bedingt die Mitarbeit bei der qualitativen Auswertung einer Bürger*innen-Mitmachaktion des SWR im Mai-Juli 2024 unter Anleitung des Projektteams. Die Studierenden können dafür diese Daten (ebenso wie die Resultate der repräsentativen Verwaltungs- und der Bevölkerungsumfrage) für Ihre Abschlussarbeit verwenden und sind innerhalb des…

In the midst of crisis, the support—or lack thereof—from governments can significantly impact frontline workers. A recent study conducted by Gabriela Lotta, Eva Thomann, Michelle Fernandez, Jan Vogler, Arthur Leandro and Marcela Garcia Corrêa sheds light on how populist governments' actions affect frontline workers' self-efficacy during crises.

Not only, but particularly since Brexit, 'national self-determination' is back on everyone’s lips. Consequently, Differentiated Integration has garnered increased scholarly attention, focusing on the analysis of opting in or out of EU policies, or committing to them at varying speeds. However, the present article takes this discussion a step further. In a recent publication in West European Politics, Asya Zhelyazkova, Eva Thomann, Eva Ruffing, and Sebastiaan Princen take the concept of…

Guest lecture from Prof. Dr. Eva Thomann at the University Institute for Public Administration (IDHEAP) in Lausanne on January 22 2024 on the topic "Bringing street-level bureaucrats’ behaviour and accountability regimes into policy evaluation"

Wie geht es weiter mit dem Deutschlandticket? Welche Reformen und Anpassungen sind nötig, um das D-Ticket zu einem dauerhaften Erfolg zu machen? Die Transferplattform SPNV-Monitor liefert dazu Input. Die Projektwebsite zum D-Ticket ist erreichbar unter: https://zukunft-deutschlandticket.de

Tiziano Zgaga, Eva Thomann, and Mathieu Goubier studied why Germany, France and Italy change European Union fiscal policies during implementation. They find that customised implementation reflects the interplay of member states’ preferences and capacities: member states do what they want, if they can.

The Chair of Public Administration at the University of Konstanz is seeking research assistants (RAs) for the research project “COVICORR: Comparing Mask Scandals in 27 European Union Member States”.

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The start date is February 1st, 2024 or upon agreement. The position is available for two years.

The University of Konstanz is one of eleven Universities of Excellence in Germany. Since 2007 it has been successful in the German Excellence Initiative and its follow-up programme, the Excellence Strategy.

The postdoctoral position is situated at the Chair of Public Administration at the intersection of public policy and public…