Franziska Carstensen studied political science and literature (German studies) in Potsdam and Edinburgh. She was then involved in the third-party funded project PolitikON and worked for six years as an editorial assistant at the "Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen". She was also a research assistant at the Institute for Political Science at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. From 2009 to 2012, she completed her dissertation on "Funktionsmuster und -profile: Subnationalstaatliche Parlamente im Vergleich (Functional patterns and profiles: Subnational State Parliaments in Comparison)". Between 2012 and 2023, she worked as an online academic tutor at the FernUniversität in Hagen. She has been a research associate at IParl since April 2021 and a visiting professor of political and administrative science at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR) since April 2024. Her research and teaching areas include the German political system, parliaments at all levels (especially at the sub-national level) and federalism. She is a member of the DVParl, the DVPW and the IVVI Berlin as well as the ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments.
Alte Gesichter, neue Chancen? Wechsel im Ministerpräsidentenamt nach und zwischen Landtagswahlen (1950 bis 2022) (together with Jakob Hirn and Kevin W. Settles), in: Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen, vol. 54 (2023), no 2, pp. 272-297.
Parlamentsrechtliche Entscheidungen von Landesverfassungsgerichten in Organstreitverfahren, in: Reutter, Werner (Ed.): Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit in Bundesländern. Theoretische Perspektiven, methodische Überlegungen und empirische Befunde, Wiesbaden 2020, pp. 237-262.
Der Landtag von Mecklenburg-Vorpommern im Schweriner Schloss, in: Schwanholz, Julia/Theiner, Patrick (Eds.): Die politische Architektur deutscher Parlamente. Von Häusern, Schlössern und Palästen, Wiesbaden 2020, pp. 207-227.
Die Nutzung von Großen Anfragen im Bundestag und in den deutschen Landesparlamenten: warum so unterschiedlich?, in: Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen (ZParl), vol. 49, (2018), no. 3, pp. 477-497.
Funktionsmuster und -profile: Subnationalstaatliche Parlamente im Vergleich, Baden-Baden 2014.
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