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Nicolas Drathschmidt, M.A.

Research and Teaching Associate

Nicolas Drathschmidt is a research and teaching associate at the Chair of Public and Nonprofit Management. He is interested in research on public personnel, the effect of digitization on job strain and stress, as well as red tape and bureaucracy.
Nicolas Drathschmidt studied Political Science, Administration and Organization at the University of Potsdam. He also completed his master's degree in "Administrative Sciences" at the University of Potsdam. During his studies he worked as a research assistant at the chairs of Political Science, Administration and Organization as well as Public and Nonprofit Management. In addition, he worked as a student assistant for a local political association and was holder of a scholarship of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.

Since October 2021, he has been working as a research and teaching associate at the University of Potsdam.

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Publications

(2024): Modern civil service. Flexible, digital, well paid?! How the public sector retains its employees (with Isabella Proeller and Jakob Kühler). University of Potsdam / dbb jugend. Open-access:DOI

(2024): It Takes (at least) Two to Tango. Investigating Interactional Dynamics between Clients and Caseworkers in Public Encounters (with Matthias Döring and Stine P. P. Nielsen). In: Public Administration Review, pp. 1-17. Open-access:DOI

(2024): 'Modern Talking': Narratives of Agile by German Public Sector Employees (with Jakob Kühler and Daniela Großmann). In: Information Polity, pre-press, S. 1-18. Open-access:DOI

(2023): Digital Era, Digitale Transformation und Digital Red Tape – ein Debattenbeitrag zur Digitalisierungsforschung. VM Verwaltung & Management, Vol. 29., No 4, pp. 188-191. DOI

(2023): Coronitalization. Effekte der Corona-Pandemie auf die Digitalisierung der Verwaltung (with Isabella Proeller and Jan Adam). In: Krause, T., Schachtner, C., Thapa, B. (Eds.): Handbuch Digitalisierung der Verwaltung. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, pp. 33-54. DOI

(2023): Ist digital immer besser? Wie Verwaltungsmitarbeitende mit unnötiger Bürokratie umgehen. In: AWV-Informationen, No 1/2023. Open access: Link

(2022): Umgang von Verwaltungsmitarbeitenden mit Red Tape. In: BestMasters. Wiesbaden: Springer. Master's Thesis. Universität Potsdam. DOI

(2022): Virtuelle Teams und Homeoffice (with Caroline Fischer, Isabella Proeller and John Siegel). In: Tanja Klenk/Frank Nullmeier/Göttrick Wewer (Eds.): Handbuch Digitalisierung in Staat und Verwaltung. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. DOI

(2022): Resilience through digitalisation: How individual and organisational resources affect public employees working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic (with Caroline Fischer, John Siegel, Isabella Proeller). In: Public Management Review. Open access: DOI

(2022): Stress-Test Sozialamt: Psychische Belastungen in der Sozialverwaltung (with Matthias Döring). Odense: Universität, Dänemark. Open access:DOI

(2021): Wissensmanagement. Den Austausch fördern (with Esther Steverding). In: Kommune 21, No 03/2021, pp. 12-13. Open access: PDF

(2020): Verwaltung im Lockdown. Empirische Befunde aus Sicht der Beschäftigten (with John Siegel, Caroline Fischer, Adrian Gelep and Thomas Kralinski). In: Verwaltung & Management, Vol. 26., No 6, pp. 279-287. DOI and open access: DOI

Conference Papers

Awards

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consulting hours
Upon request