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The Political Participation of Older People in Europe: The Greying of Our Democracies

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October 2024 Our new German-language BA course Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) is launching. Why should you study in Duisburg-Essen? Great, large institutes with much on offer, affordable housing and a PPE team that cares. Find out on 02 July

24-27 September attending the tri-annual wizard tournament / ...no wait: conference of the German Political Science Association, presenting three papers

17 July acting as external examiner for a PhD viva at the University of Gießen

10 July presentation at the research colloquium of the department of sociology at the University of Münster

4-6 July attending EPSA Cologne and overseeing a panel "Do Left Voters Behave in a More Solidary Manner? Experimental Evidence from Austria and Germany"

02 July: online information day PPE Philosophy, Politics & Economics with online simulation exercise "Village People: we are founding a new village."

24-28 June attending the NOPSA international conference in Bergen

13-14 June attending a retreat by the North-West German Network of Conflict Studies hosted by Johannes Vüllers, Mülheim a.d.R.

11-12 June: I am attending the conference "Emotional Dynamics of (In)security and Politics" where I will co-present a new paper idea with Conrad Ziller "The Lost Souls of Liberal Democracy: Who wants to Destroy the Existing Political Order in Germany?"

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22 May Introductory remarks and chair of a symposim on the future of the EU at a secondary school

17 May info day for Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Duisburg-Essen

14 May evening keynote "The false myths about politics in ageing democracies", international symposium “Liberal Democracies under Demographic Pressure: Insights from Germany and Japan” in Berlin from 14 May to 16 May 2024. Slides

02-03 May: Workshop participation and paper presentation on the Solidarity Game and the identity of others at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies Cologne

SS 24 I am teaching a BA course on political elites in which students have to use a uni-provided account of ChatGPT to learn how to critically use generative AI.

April: article accepted open access at Electoral Studies about the Immigrant German Election Study I. More than 10 years ago, the late Dennis Spies and I started working on this, and he is no longer with us to see this in print (with Sabrina Mayer, Dennis Spies, Manuel Diaz Garcia and Jonas Elis)

April: I received the second full draft of one of my PhD students within three weeks. I find this immensely satisfying.

14-15 March attending a workshop "Experimental Research on ethnic diversity, discrimination, and pro-sociality in European societies" by Tamara Gutfleisch & Johanna Gereke at the MZES in Mannheim

23 February attending a workshop "Social constructions of target populations and their impact on political behaviour and public policy” by Isabelle Guinaudeau, Elisa Deiss-Helbig & Theres Matthieß in Konstanz

February article accepted open access at Frontiers in Political Science about how national models of solidarity could explain the public opinion and policy responses in Germany and the USA (with Mark Vail).

8-9 February Jakob Kemper, Markus Tepe and I will present the first version of a new paper availble online on how the identity of others influence costly solidarity behaviour, new evidence from a cool 2-wave survey with FORSA in Germany

31 January Jakob Kemper and I will solve the puzzle of why voters of left parties behave in a more solidary manner and behave differently in the solidarity interactions with others (departmental colloquium, Duisburg-Essen)

16 January I am giving a in-person presentation in Klagenfurt, Austria, on immigrant-origin voters during a campaign and processes of political integration

winter semester: I am teaching a new master seminar Gender & Politics with visiting lecturer Danielle Pullan from the University of Cologne and women's interest federal trade union spokesperson Tanja Küsgens from the interest organisation Education & Formation (VBE)

21-22 September: In-person paper presentation at the German Political Science Association's Political Economy Group in Witten

18 August: New German-English Science Blog initiated Politik-Wissenschaft.org in order to make public discourse about politics and public policies more scientific and evidence-based

26-28 June: CES Conference Iceland, two in-person presentation

20 June: In-person presentation at the Cologne Center of Comparative Politics and the cluster of excellence EconTribute

Article accepted with Jan Karem Höhne on question order effects wuth survey items of political solidarities in the International Journal of Social Research Methodology

14 June: In-person presentation at the CAIS Bochum

June: Höhne/Goerres on question order effects with political solidarity and polity levels of governance accepted for publication in the International Journal of Social Research Methodology

8-9 June: workshop "Exploring the Impact of Social Policies on People's Lives" , University of Oslo

1-2 June: attendance and paper presentation at the annual conference of the Dutch-Belgian 24 h Political Science meeting

24-25 May: attendance and paper presentation at the anual conference of the specialist group of voting and politcal attitudes of the German Political Science Association

16 May: Presentation on virtual states at the Utrecht University School of Governance, host Prof Barbara Vis

9 to 12 May: UK tour of POLITISOLID University College London, King's College London, Nuffield College Oxford

5-6 May: attendance and paper presentation annual conference of methods section of the German Political Science Association

18 April: In-person presentation "Following Immigrant-Origin Voters Through the 2021 Bundestag Campaign: New Insights from the Immigrant German Electon Study II" at DFG Graduate School DYNAMICS @Humboldt University Berlin

20-25 March: Visiting professor at the University of Konstanz's "The Politics of Inequality" hosted by Prof Marius Busemeyer

19 March: in-person presentation on how to mobilise voters of immigrant origin, Bocholt, Landeszentrale für politische Bildung

9-10 March: In-person presentation from ERC POLITSOLID on virtual states and DFG project Immigrant German Election Study at 24 h Political Psychology in Bielefeld

26 Jan: Ziller & Goerres published: Immigration and Integration Policy (in German)

23 Jan: Goerres & Höhne published open access: Evaluating the response effort and data quality of established political solidarity measures: a pre-registered experimental test

19 Jan: I am giving a presentation on whether we can measure meaningful behaviour in virtual online states at the seminar of the Konstanz Center for Data and Methods at the invitation of Prof Susumu Shikano.

12 Dec: I will give the remote keynote "Immigrant-Origin Voters at the 2017 and 2021 Bundestag elections: Insights from the Immigrant German Election Study" at the Center for Displacement, Migration and Integration at Aalborg University.

27 Nov: professional criminals cyber-attacked the University of Duisburg-Essen, all central services including e-mail are down for long.

24-25 Nov: I will be at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne for a Political Economy Workshop hosted by Lucio Baccaro and Marius R. Busemeyer

17-18 Nov: I am attending an expert meeting of the Wissenschaftsrat in Cologne

08-10 Nov: I am attending a GESIS training course by Denis Cohen on Advanced Bayesian Modelling. I am getting a silver-hair discount.

19 Oct: The Centre for Turkish Studies and Integration Research in Essen funded by the NRW Centre for Civics Education published our study (Achim Goerres, Sabrina Jasmin Mayer, Jonas Elis) on how to mobilise immigrant-origin voters to vote

22-23 Sept: Jonas Elis, Sabrina Jasmin Mayer and I are presenting a new paper on the immigrant turnout gap with our new Immigrant German Election Study II survey from Duisburg

7-9 Sept: Jan Karem Höhne and Jakob Kemper are presenting ERC-funded work-in-progress on how to measure political solidarities and how to simulate online state at the General Online Research Conference in Berlin See tweets and insta posts.

10 Aug: Kumlin Goerres Monograph "Election Campaigns and Welfare State Change: Democratic Linkage and Leadership Under Pressure" out with Oxford University Press

10 June: two papers presented at the DVPW Specialist Group for Empirical Methods in Hamburg by Jonas Elis and by Jakob Kemper from the projects IMGES 2 and POLITSOLID

31 May 2022: in-person (!) presentation on the first results of an artificial online state at the invitation of Prof Christoph Knill, LM University of Munich

May 2022: submission of paper on how to increase survey participation among immigrant-origin Germans for peer-review (with Jonas Elis, Sabrina J. Mayer and Dennis Spies)

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