Final theses

If the general requirements are fulfilled, please contact the professorship with a topic proposal of your choice within the given deadlines. You must submit a request for supervision, which must include an exposé, and a current performance record. Please send your documents only by e-mail to the assistant of the professorship. Please make sure that your topic proposal fits into the teaching and research profile. 

The concrete procedure will be explained to you step by step on the specific page.

• Bachelor Politik und Verwaltung
• Bachelor Politik, Verwaltung und Organisation
• Bachelor Politik und Wirtschaft
• Master Politikwissenschaft
• Master Verwaltungswissenschaft
• Master Internationale Beziehungen
• Master of Public Management

In evaluating your thesis, we will primarily assess, 

• how original, clear and focused your research question is,
• whether the structure of your thesis is appropriate to the research question (outline),
• how you use theories and concepts,
• whether you develop a convincing, coherent and contradiction-free argumentation that leads to a clear and comprehensible answer to your research question (red thread),
• whether and how you classify your question and the contents of your paper theoretically (theoretical location),
• whether and how comprehensively you independently prepare the state of research on your topic of investigation (state of research),
• whether and how you independently and critically deal with the existing scientific literature that is theoretically and empirically relevant to your research question,
• whether and how you use the technical vocabulary of the discipline and define central terms,
• whether and how you provide sufficient and convincing empirical evidence for your arguments,
• how you analyze complex issues as well as elaborate the main substantive points in a limited space,
• how you use social science methods,
• whether and how you describe and justify your approach (method and case selection),
• whether you can formulate clearly, understandably and correctly in writing (expression, grammar, spelling, punctuation),
• whether you apply scientific presentation and preparation techniques in a formally correct way (citation, source work, bibliography) and
• whether your work meets the formal requirements (cover page, table of contents, if applicable list of figures and tables, formatting, scope).