Jana Machljankin

Work at ZHAW

Position

Research Associate

Focus

• Public Management Reforms
• Digital Transformation
• Local Governance

Teaching

• BSc BA Politics & Management
• MSc BA Public Management

Experience

• Research Associate
  ZHAW
  05 / 2019 - today
• Advisor to the Project Director, Decentralisation Reform in Ukraine
  Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
  08 / 2017 - 04 / 2019
• EU Key Account Manager (Western Balkans, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, South Caucasus)
  GIZ
  09 / 2015 - 07 / 2017
• Project Manager EU Single Market
  GIZ Berlin and Brussels
  02 / 2012 - 08 / 2015

Education and Continuing education

Education

• PhD / Public Administration
  IDHEAP, University of Lausanne
  10 / 2020 - 12 / 2025
• Master of Public Administration (MPA) / Master's Program Public Management/Public Administration
  University of Kassel
  10 / 2015 - 06 / 2020
• Magister Artium in Political Sciences / Political Sciences
  Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg
  10 / 2005 - 07 / 2011

Network

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0009-0007-9295-4731

Recommendations

• Responsibility for operational implementation, National Municipality Monitoring
• Editor, Yearbook of Swiss Administrative Sciences

Projects

• Digital Transformation at the Local Tier of Government in Europe: Dynamics and Effects from a Cross-Countries and Over-Time Comparative Perspective (DIGILOG) / Team member / laufend
• Analysis and synthesis of policies for the digital transformation of a Swiss canton / Team member / abgeschlossen
• Data Monitoring Local Communities in Switzerland / Team member / abgeschlossen

Publications

• Machljankin, Jana; Neumann, Oliver; Steiner, Reto; Ege, Jörn,

  2024.

  Exploring the role of consulting in local government digital transformation.

  Public Money & Management.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2024.2414060

• Kaiser, Claire; Steiner, Reto; Machljankin, Jana,

  2023.

  Corporatisation in Swiss local government.

  In:

  Van Genugten, Marieke; Voorn, Bart; Andrews, Rhys; Papenfuss, Ulf; Torsteinsen, Harald, eds.,

  Corporatisation in local government : context, evidence and perspectives from 19 countries.

  Cham:

  Palgrave Macmillan.

  pp. 221-242.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09982-3_10

• Kaiser, Claire; Machljankin, Jana,

  2022.

  Digitalisierung und digitale Transformation in den Schweizer Gemeinden : Stand und Entwicklung.

  In:

  Pleger, Lyn Ellen; Mertes, Alexander, eds.,

  Digitale Transformation der öffentlichen Verwaltung in der Schweiz : Stand, Entwicklungslinien und Praxisbeispiele.

  Wiesbaden:

  Springer.

  pp. 61-88.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-36591-2_4

• Kaiser, Claire; Machljankin, Jana; Steiner, Reto,

  2021.

  Les communes déplorent une constante perte d’autonomie.

  Schweizer Gemeinde.

  2021(1/2), pp. 36-37.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-22068

• Machljankin, Jana; Kaiser, Claire; Steiner, Reto,

  2021.

  Les hommes dominent la politique communale.

  Schweizer Gemeinde.

  2021(1/2), pp. 26-27.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-22067

• Steiner, Reto; Kaiser, Claire; Machljankin, Jana,

  2020.

  Parteilose regieren die Schweiz : Ältere bestimmen vermehrt das politische Leben.

  Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

  241(244), pp. 9.

  Available from: https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/gemeinden-parteilose-maenner-und-aeltere-sind-in-exekutive-ld.1581787

• Steiner, Reto; Kaiser, Claire; Machljankin, Jana,

  2020.

  Come prende forma la politica nei comuni svizzeri.

  Schweizer Gemeinde.

  2020(12), pp. 14-29.

  Available from: https://schweizer-gemeinde.cld.bz/12-20

Other publications

Summary of the latest results from the National Municipality Monitoring 2023

Research Data

Steiner, Reto; Ladner, Andreas; Kaiser, Claire; Haus, Alexander; Amsellem, Ada; Machljankin, Jana, 2019. Gemeindemonitoring der Schweizer Gemeinden. SWISSUbase. Available from: https://doi.org/10.23662/FORS-DS-1116-1

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