Projects

The projects with all details can be found on the website of the working group “Political System of the Federal Republic of Germany”

Current Projects

  • Weizenbaum Institute (WZB Berlin): GENKIA: "Generative Artificial Intelligence in the public workforce. WP: Lab-in-the-field experiment with municipal employees." (with Mareike Sirman-Winkler (WZB Berlin) and Yongping Bao (SOCIUM)).

  • Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB): Research project on “The Acceptance of Artificial Intelligence in Public Employment Services”. (with Martin Dietz (IAB), Christopher Osiander (IAB) and Mareike Sirman-Winkler (WZB)).

Completed Projects

  • Volkswagen Foundation: “Who should get the vaccine first? How do COVID-19 vaccine allocation regimes affect citizens' global vs. national identities and priority preferences” (Principal Investigator together with Pieter Vanhuysse, University of Southern Denmark and Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

  • Ministry of Science and Education (MWK Nds.): “Smart Self-Service Systems in the Municipal Administration” (Principal Investigator) and OFFIS.

  • Volkswagen Foundation, Research Cooperation Lower Saxony & Israel, Lower Saxony: “The causal effect of public sector identity on moral behavior” (Principal Investigator together with Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

  • German Research Foundation (DFG) Research Group (FOR 2104): “Need-based justice, group membership and expertise” (Principal Investigator, Sub-Project B2 - https://www.hsu-hh.de/bedarfsgerechtigkeit/).
  • Ministry of Science and Education (MWK Nds.), Lower Saxony: “Results of Municipal Elections in Lower Saxony from 1996 to 2017: Development and Application of a new data set for the empirical study of municipal elections” (Principal Investigator).

  • German Research Foundation (DFG) Research Grant: “Legislative oversight of ministerial bureaucracy. Institutional design, formal modeling and experimental validation” (Principal Investigator together with Susumu Shikano, University of Konstanz).

  • Fritz-Thyssen Foundation (FTS): “Pro-social motives of civil servants in the context of administrative modernization. A field experimental analysis of subject-pool effects” (Principal Investigator).