Das Graduiertenkolleg „Standards des Regierens“ der TU Darmstadt und der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt sucht ab dem 1. Mai 2025 zwei engagierte studentische Hilfskräfte (m/w/d).

Moritz Stockmar took up a position as a research assistant at the department on 1 January 2025.

From January 19, 2025, Dorothee Harres returns as assistant to the working group’s secretariat.

The DFG Research Training Group “Standards of Governance,” a joint project between Technische Universität Darmstadt and Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, is offering ten PhD positions starting on April 1, 2025. Five positions are based at TU Darmstadt and five at Goethe University Frankfurt.

At this year’s ECPR General Conference in Dublin, held from August 12th to 15th, Jonas Bernhard presented an excerpt from his dissertation project. The paper titled “When local governments win (and when they lose): Conditions for successful intergovernmental lobbying in Germany” was discussed in the panel “Coalitions and Networks: How interest groups collaborate horizontally and vertically”.

Prof. Behnke is in vacation from August 04 to 14 and from Augst 23 to September 04. Please consider to send requests at least three days in advance if you wish them to be answered before Prof. Behnke leaves for her vacation.