Lars Holtkamp

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Lars Holtkamp (* 1969 ) is a German political and administrative scientist . He is a professor at the Fernuniversität in Hagen .

Studies and academic career

Holtkamp studied social sciences at the Ruhr University Bochum from 1990 to 1996 and received a graduate scholarship from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1997 to 1999. In 1999 he received his doctorate in social sciences at the Ruhr University Bochum with a dissertation on municipal budget policy , for which he received the Carl Goerdeler Prize of the Carl Goerdeler Foundation and the Wilhelm Hollenberg Prize of the Society of Friends of the Ruhr in 2001 -University of Bochum.

From 1999 to 2000 he was a research assistant at the Ruhr University in the 1999 municipal elections project in North Rhine-Westphalia and in 1999 at the Hagen Open University.

In 2007 Holtkamp received the Venia Legendi for Political Science and Public Administration. From 2008 he was a substitute professor for politics and administration at the University of Hagen. In 2010 he was appointed Professor of Politics and Administration there.

His work and research focuses on budget policy, administrative modernization , democratic reforms , parties and local political research.

Political commitment

Lars Holtkamp was a member of the Green Council in Waltrop from 1989 to 2014 . As essential local political goals he indicated the expansion of citizen participation according to the model of the citizen commune , a gradual consolidation of the Waltrop budget without social cuts and the limitation of party politicization of local politics.

Publications (monographs only)

  • Local politics and local government - a practice-oriented introduction , Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn 2013 (together with Jörg Bogumil )
  • Administrative reforms - a problem-oriented introduction to administrative science , Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2012 ( review )
  • Local budget policy with empty coffers. Inventory, consolidation strategies, options for action , series Modernization of the Public Sector, Vol. 33, edition sigma, Berlin 2010
  • Half of Power in Sight - The Influence of Institutions and Parties on the Political Representation of Women , Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin 2010 (together with Sonja Schnittke)
  • Communal concordance and competitive democracy - parties and mayors in representative democracy , habilitation thesis, published in the series Society Policy and State Activities, Vol. 30, Wiesbaden, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2008
  • Perspectives of municipal administrative modernization, series Modernization of the Public Sector, Vol. 30, Berlin, edition sigma 2007 (together with Jörg Bogumil and others)
  • Local politics and local government - a policy-oriented introduction , Volume 42 of the series "Basic Knowledge of Politics", VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2006 (together with Jörg Bogumil)
  • Cooperative Democracy - The Political Potential of Citizen Engagement , Frankfurt 2006 (together with Jörg Bogumil and others)
  • Status report administrative reform - an interim balance after ten years , series Modernization of the Public Sector Vol. 24, Berlin 2004 (together with Jörg Bogumil et al.)
  • The Reform Model Citizen Commune - Services - Limits - Perspectives , Series Modernization of the Public Sector, Vol. 22, Berlin 2003 (together with Jörg Bogumil and others)
  • Management at eye level - strategy and practice of customer-oriented service policy , series Modernization of the Public Sector, Vol. 19, Berlin 2001 (together with Jörg Bogumil and Leo Kißler)
  • Local budget policy in NRW - budget situation - consolidation potentials - savings strategies , diss., Opladen 2000
  • Citizen Participation in Cities and Towns - Practical Guide for Citizens' Commune , Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin 2000
  • Peace, joy and pancakes? Mediation process in environmental policy , Marburg 1995 (together with Birgit Stach)

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SURNAME Holtkamp, ​​Lars
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political and administrative scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1969