Research

Nora Carstens studies the effect of multi-level governance systems on the digital transformation of the public administration. She puts a special focus on the municipal level and the online access act (Onlinezugangsgesetz/ OZG). Her other main interests include the research on political parties and electoral systems.

Teaching

• Winter semester 2022/23: Parties and Party System in Germany (Bachelor, Seminar)
• Summer semester 2022: Governance in the Federal State (Bachelor, Seminar) and Elections and Electoral Behavior in Germany (Bachelor, Seminar)
• Winter semester 2021/22: Parties and Party competition (Bachelor, Seminar together with Lukas Thiele)
• Summer semester 2020: Political parties and party systems (Bachelor, Seminar)
• Winter semester 2019/20: Introduction into academic work for Political and Administrational Science (Bachelor, Seminar)
• Summer semester 2019: Political parties and party systems (Bachelor, Seminar)
• Winter semester 2018/19: Introduction into academic work for Political and Administrational Science (Bachelor, Seminar)

Conference contributions

Fleischer, J. & Carstens, N. (2020): Policy Labs as Arenas for Boundary Spanning-Evidence from the Digital Transformation in Germany, Vortrag auf der ECPR General Conference Online, Virtual Event, 24.- 28 August 2020.

Carstens, N. (2020): Single-Sign-On für die deutsche Kommunalverwaltung - Einflussfaktoren für die Einführung von Servicekonten,  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.

Carstens, N. (2019): Digitalisation Labs – A new form of collaboration to overcome the joint decision trap?, PSG VI: Governance of Public Sector Organizations, EGPA Annual Conference Belfast, United Kingdom, 11. - 13. September 2019.