Dr. Eva Krick

Programme Director Democracy and Society


e.krick@remove-this.helmut-schmidt.de

  • CV
  • Research interests
  • Publications
  • MA in Modern European Studies, University of North London and Magister in European Studies, University of Osnabrück; 2005-2006 lecturer and researcher in the field of state and governance, University of Hagen; 2006-2011 associated PhD student at the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences and teaching assignments at Humboldt University Berlin; 2011 PhD in political science, University of Darmstadt funded by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung; 2011-2017 lecturer and researcher in the field of German politics at Humboldt University Berlin; 2015-2020 researcher at the University of Oslo’s ARENA Centre for European Studies, partly funded by the German Research Council; 2019 Visiting scholar at the Universities of Edinburgh and Aarhus und 2014 at the National University of Singapore; 2020-2022 teaching assignments in political theory and in policy studies at the Universities of Hildesheim and Hagen; 2021 lecturer and researcher in the field of political economy at University of Mainz; 2022 interim professor of comparative politics at Humboldt University Berlin; since 2022 affiliated researcher at University of Mainz’s department of political science; since 2019 associated member of the SKAPE Centre for science, knowledge and policy at the University of Edinburgh; since 2023 head of the research and events program on “Democracy and Society” at the Bundeskanzler-Helmut-Schmidt-Stiftung in Hamburg.

    • Political and cultural participation
    • Democratic theory and democratic legitimacy
    • Policy advice, expertise and knowledge in the political context
    • Governance, political negotiations and collective decision-making 
    • Institutional and organisational analysis
    • Environmental and climate policy in Germany, Norway and the EU
  • Selected publications:

    • Eva Krick (2022): ‚Citizen experts in participatory governance. Democratic and epistemic assets of service user involvement, local knowledge and citizen science’, Current Sociology 70(7), 994-1012. 
    • Eva Krick/Lars Leeten (2022): Die umkämpfte Autorität von Wissen im politischen Kontext. Eine Frage des Vertrauens‘ [The contested authority of knowledge in the policy context. A question of trust], in: Schuppert, G. Folke/Weingart, Peter/Römhildt, Roland A. (eds.): Herrschaft und Wissen [Authority and knowledge]. Nomos, 145-170.
    • Eva Krick (2021): Expertise and participation. Institutional designs for policy development in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Eva Krick (2020): ‘Demokratisierung durch Partizipation? Die Mehrebenen-Beteiligung an der Endlagersuche in Deutschland‘ [Democratisation by means of public involvement? Multilevel participation in the search for a nuclear waste repository in Germany], Politische Vierteljahresschrift 62(2), 281-306. 
    • Eva Krick (2018): ‘Ensuring social acceptance of the energy transition. The German government's "consensus management" strategy', Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning 20(1), 64-80.

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