PhD Projects

If you are interested in a PhD at the Chair for Public Management (Prof. Dr. Sylvia Veit), and you fulfil the requirements set forth by the University of Kassel (more information), then you can apply as an external doctoral student.

We kindly request, that you send us a short letter of motivation, your CV and a copy of your diplomas. Your application should also include an exposé about the intended PhD project of about 5 pages length. This exposé is supposed to include information about the research question, the theoretical framework, the research design and the methodological approach of your research project.

In case of a positive review you will have an in-depth discussion with Prof. Dr. Sylvia Veit. Subsequent to this meeting, we will decide on your application. Before you will receive our answer, the consent of the PhD-Committee is needed.

We conclude a supervision agreement with all doctoral students. Doctoral students are expected to participate in a colloquium of doctoral students and present their progress twice a year. Furthermore, you should participate in an international scientific conference at least once a year and present your research results. The travel costs and registration fees for scientific conferences of external doctoral students unfortunately cannot be paid for by the Chair for Public Management.

• "Functional politicization as informal institution in the ministerial bureaucracy: The social function of collective informality" (Jana Walter, University of Kassel)
• „Public Service Motivation in German Police Organisations – A Grounded Theory Study“ (Annika Dreimann, University of Kassel) 
• „The Influence of Signaling Effects on Career Success“ (Simon Scholz, University of Kassel)
• "Politics and Administration in German Dictatorships – A Comparing Analysis of the National Socialism and the German Democratic Republic" (Bastian Strobel)
• „Final Mark Only? The Role of Cross-Disciplinary Competencies for the Recruitment in the Civil Service“ (Stefanie Vedder, University of Kassel)

• "How do regulatory advisory boards contribute to cutting red tape? A comparative analysis of Actal, NKR and RPC " (Antonia Schurig, University of Potsdam)
• „The diffusion of public sector accounting reforms in German states“ (Doris Böhme, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg)