Welcome!

All interested people are warmly invited to the public lecture “Quo vadis Europa? Demokratie im Zeichen der Krise” held by Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament, which is organized by the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research and takes place on Monday, 10 June 2013, at 11:30am in the Schloss, SO 108. [Further information].

Please note that the office hour and the courses of Mona Krewel are chancelled in the week from 13 to 17 May 2013, because of the participation in a conference.

Schmitt-Beck, Rüdiger. 2013. “Of readers, viewers, and cat-dogs.” In: van Deth, Jan (Ed.): Comparative politics: The problem of equivalence. Reprint (ecpr press classics), Colchester: ECPR Press: 222-246.

Kraft, Patrick/Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck. 2013. “Helfen politische Gespräche, “korrekt” zu wählen? Eine Analyse zur Bundestagswahl 2009.” In: Keil, Silke I./S. Isabell Thaidigsmann (Eds.): Zivile Bürgergesellschaft und Demokratie. Aktuelle Ergebnisse der empirischen Politikforschung. Festschrift für Oscar W. Gabriel zum 65. Geburtstag. Wiesbaden: Springer VS: 117-138.

Kraft, Patrick. 2012. Correct Voting in Deutschland: Eine Analyse der Qualität individueller Wahlentscheidungen bei der Bundestagswahl 2009. Arbeitspapier des Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung. [Further information].

Check the category “teaching” for information about all courses, which will be taught by the team of the chair during the spring/summer term 2013.

Schmitt-Beck, Rüdiger/Julia Partheymüller. 2012. “Why Voters Decide Late: A Simultaneous Test of Old and New Hypotheses at the 2005 and 2009 German Federal Elections.” In: German Politics, 21,3: 299-316. (Download)

Partheymüller, Julia/Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck. 2012. “A ‘Social Logic’ of Demobilization: The Influence of Political Discussants on Electoral Participation at the 2009 German Federal Election.” In: Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties , 22,4: 457-478. (Download)

At the ECPR Summer School of Methods and Techniques taken place in Ljubljana the third prize of the ECPR Dirk Berg-Schlosser Award 2012 was attributed to Stefanie Walter for her poster presentation of her dissertation project about the visibility of citizens in the European public on which she is working as a student of the CDSS. Warm congratulations of the whole Chair to the laureate!

After having hold the junior professorship of Political Science with focus on voter behaviour since 2009, Prof. Dr. Thorsten Faas leaves our chair much to our regret on 1 September. He follows a call of the University of Mainz where he will occupy the professorship for Methods of Empirical Political Research. We wish him all the very best for his future!

Huber, Sascha. 2012. Strukturen des politischen Kontexts und die demokratische Kompetenz der Wähler. Experimentelle Studien zur Urteils- und Entscheidungsbildung. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
For further information about this volume being part of the series “Studien zur Wahl- und Einstellungsforschung” (studies of electoral and behavioral research) please click here (only in German).

The Bojanovsky Prize (fur further information please look here) launched for the first time was awarded to Dipl.-Soz.Wiss. Sascha Huber for his dissertation “Strukturen des politischen Kontexts und die demokratische Kompetenz der Wähler. Experimentelle Studien zur Urteils- und Entscheidungsbildung” (Structures of political context and democratic competence of the voters. Experimental studies concerning the judgment formation and decision making). The Foundation Council of the Prof. Dr. Anna- und Prof. Dr. Jörg Jiri Bojanovsky-Stiftung appreciated the dissertation as the best work of a young scientific talent at the University of Mannheim in 2012. The dissertation will be published by Nomos-Verlag in July 2012. The whole team of the Chair extends warm congratulations to the prize winner!