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Eva Thomann presents her research, co-authored with Jörn Ege and James Maxia, as part of the Behavioural and Policy Sciences Seminar Series at the City University of Hong Kong. Their study proposes an Accountability Regimes Framework to explain how a hybrid implementation arrangement can create competing street-level accountabilities that translate into policy divergence, based on the case of the anti-terrorist “Prevent Duty” policy in Higher Education Institutions in the United Kingdom (UK).…

Eva Thomann publiziert ausfürliche Rückschau von aktuellen Ansätzen der qualitativen komparative Analyse gemeinsam mit Jörn Ege und Ekaterina Paustyan.

The workshops offer cutting-edge, inclusive, and affordable methodological training in both qualitative and quantitative research design and techniques for PhD students and postdocs. Courses take place from March 10-11 (online preparatory course) and March 14-18, 2022 (online and in-person) at the University of Konstanz — beautifully situated at Lake Konstanz, close to the Alps and near the border to Switzerland and Austria.

The conference will take place on June 8 – 10 at the LUISS University in Rome, where Eva Thomann and Jonathan Zeitlin will co-chair the section “Regulatory Governance in the European Union”. The section invites panels and paper proposals on current trends and transformations of EU regulatory governance. The application deadline is December 15.

Eva Thomann co-authored the textbook “Qualitative Comparative Analysis Using R: A Beginner’s Guide”, which was published in October. The book offers a hands-on and practical introduction to Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) including data sets, examples scripts and template files as well as quizzes and exercises to facilitate the learning process.

On the 15th of October, Prof. Dr. Eva Thomann was invited to speak at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), one of México’s top think tanks. Prof. Thomann spoke about public accountability in street-level bureaucracies as part of a series of lectures to doctoral students.

We are looking for a Research Assistant for a comparative project on customization of European fiscal policy in France, Germany and Italy under the supervision of our postdoctoral researcher Dr. Tiziano Zgaga (November-April).

The working group is looking for a research assistant for a comparative project on corruption in public procurement in Germany and Italy during the COVID crisis.

The University of Exeter online blog "EUROPP: European Politics and Policy" has published a new article about the study "Differential discrimination against mobile EU citizens: experimental evidence from bureaucratic choice settings".