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All interested people are cordially invited to a guest lecture held by Frank Stauss about advertising in electoral campaigns. Frank Stauss is political scientist and co-owner of the communication agency BUTTER. In the past 20 years he has taken active part in numerous electoral campaigns (mostly for the SPD) on federal and regional level. He will provide interesting insights about the actual practice of political campaigns. For further information about the lecturer please look here.
The lecture will take place on Tuesday, 28 May 2013, 1:45 Uhr pm in the Schloss, O 148.

Partheymüller, Julia/Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck. 2013. “Eine ‚soziale Logik’ der Demobilisierung: Einflüsse politischer Gesprächspartner auf Wahlbeteiligung und -enthaltung bei der Bundestagswahl 2009″. In: Bernhard Weßels, Harald Schoen, Oscar W. Gabriel (Eds.): Wahlen und Wähler: Analysen aus Anlass der Bundestagswahl 2009. Wiesbaden: Springer VS: 496-513.

Rohrschneider, Robert/Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck/Franziska Jung. 2013. “Vereint, doch immer noch verschieden: ost- und westdeutsche Wähler bei der Bundestagswahl 2009 im Vergleich?. In: Weßels, Bernhard/Harald Schoen/Oscar W. Gabriel (Eds.): Wahlen und Wähler: Analysen aus Anlass der Bundestagswahl 2009. Wiesbaden: Springer VS: 360-379.

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].

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).