Research

Lukas Thiele studies the digital transformation of the public sector. He focuses on the relationship between the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and democracy, especially in concern to participatory processes. Moreover, his research interests include the analysis of electoral behaviour, environmental politics and public policy.  

Teaching

• Summer semester 2021: Public policy in Germany and Europe: A comparison of policy fields (Bachelor, Seminar)
• Winter semester 2020/21: Party competition and electoral behavior (Bachelor, Seminar)
• Summer semester 2020: Indices in Political Science (Bachelor, Seminar)
• Winter semester 2019/20: Policy Analysis in Environmental and Climate Policy. An Introduction to Current Approaches in Policy Research (Bachelor, Seminar)

Conference contributions

Thiele, L. (2021): The many forms of e-participation? A framework for measuring e-participation adoption by local governments in the UK and Germany, presentation at the 14th Annual Conference of the "Forum Junge Staats-, Verwaltungs- und Policy-Forschung (FoJuS)", „Chancen und Herausforderungen für Staat, Verwaltung und Policy-Prozesse in den 2020s“, Virtual Event, 25.-26. February 2021.

Thiele, L. (2020): Towards participatory policy-making? A framework for measuring e-participation adoption by local governments in the UK and Germany, presentation at the EGPA Annual Conference, Virtual Event, 03.-04. September 2020.

Thiele, L. (2020): Wie demokratisch ist E-Democracy? Zur Vermessung der demokratischen Qualität digitaler Informations- und Partizipationsinstrumente auf lokaler Ebene, presentation at the 13th Annual Conference of the "Forum Junge Staats-, Policy- und Verwaltungsforschung (FoJuS)", "Zukunft der Verwaltung, Verwaltung der Zukunft", Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg, 27- 28. February 2020, Hamburg.