Arbeitsbereich: Public Administration

Prof. Dr. Katrin Möltgen-Sicking

21. March 2018

Prof. Dr. Katrin Möltgen-Sicking has taught political science, sociology and intercultural competence at the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration NRW since 2001. Since 2005, she has been a lecturer in project management at the University of Kassel. Her research interests are in the field of non-constituted forms of political participation at the municipal level, municipal integration policy and intercultural opening of the administration.

In 2012, she spent a three-month research stay at the Federal University of Porto Alegre (Brazil) to study forms of political participation at the municipal level in Brazil.

Prof. Dr. Harald Hofmann

19. March 2018

Prof. Dr. Harald Hofmann has been teaching and researching at the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration NRW in the subjects of general administrative law and municipal law since 1991. He is currently working on a research project on “Administrative Decision Making” and “Civic Participation” in China and Germany.

His research interests include the legal aspects of political participation.

Prof. Dr. Frank Bätge

14. March 2018

Prof. Dr. Frank Bätge is a university lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration NRW as well as a lecturer at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer and at the NRW School of Governance at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Prior to his appointment, he worked as a legal advisor in local government. His research focuses on the areas of municipal law and the law of political participation.

He is particularly interested in legal issues of e-democracy and e-participation. He has written various publications in this field and is co-editor of the journal “Kommunalpraxis Wahlen” as well as of the series “Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht”.