Annual Conference of the DVPW section ‘Policy Analysis and Public Administration' on March 20 and 21, 2025, at the TU Darmstadt

This year’s annual conference of the section ‘Policy Analysis and Public Administration’ of the German Society of Political Science (DVPW) is hosted by Prof. Dr. Nathalie Behnke at the TU Darmstadt. In eight panels, on March 20 and 21, the current state of German research on topics around resilience policies and administrative reform from local to European level is presented and discussed on March 20 and 21 in the Residential Palace.

Presentation by Prof. Behnke at the ‘Professors’ talk’ of the Deutschen Landkreistag, Tuesday, 26 February 2025 in Heidelberg

At this year’s ‚Professors‘ Talk’ of the Deutscher Landkreistag, Nathalie Behnke presented research results on the subject of resources and success of local government associations.

Event organized by the ‘Evangelische Akademie Frankfurt’ on Wednesday, 12 March 2025

In an After-Talk on the ZDF telecast ‚Die Anstalt‘, which will be broadcast on 11 March 2025, Nathalie Behnke discusses as invited guest with moderator Matthias Blöser and with the ‘Die Anstalt‘ Script Writer Dr. Friedrich Krauß on the issue of ‘Bureaucracy’. The event is organised by the Evangelische Akademie Frankfurt as a talk series under the heading of ‘Humor ist …’.

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).

New article by Prof. Behnke as part of the commemorative publication for Jörg Bogumil.

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.