April 2021: I accepted the counter offer by the University of Duisburg-Essen.
Februar 2021: Sabrina J. Mayer, Dennis C. Spies and I received funding by the German Research Foundation for the Immigrant German Election Study 2 .
Dec 2020: I received the offer for the Chair of Political Sociology at the University of Bamberg.
27 Nov 2020: Presentation “Mehr füreinander und mehr gegeneinander? Politische Solidaritäten während der Corona-Pandemie” at the Annual Meeting at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies Cologne. Goerres_MPIfG_Institutstag_20201127
Find a pre-recorded presentation here
November 2020: Does the level of integration explain lower turnout and lower voting norm among immigrant-origin Germans? New contribution in German by Sabrina Mayer, Hayfat Hamidou-Schmidt and myself in Handbuch Integration edited by Gert Pickel et. al. PDF
November 2020: Hayfat Hamidou-Schmidt and I critically take stock of the statistics for political scientists lecture module at BA level during the 1st Corona semester (in German, edited volume by Daniel Lambach) Hamidou-Schmidt Goerres Statistik kontaktfrei
August 2020: Goerres_Transnational_Voting_ECPR_20200827 new conference presentation at the ECPR Virtual Conference on how social integration among Germans of Turkish in Germany propels both political integration in the electoral processes of Germany and Turkey based on work with Jonas Elis, Sabrina Mayer and Dennis Spies
August 2020: new conference paper for the ECPR Virtual Conference on why the Russian Germans disporportionately support the anti-immigrant AfD with Dennis Spies, Sabrina Mayer & Jonas Elis
July 2020: Study in German Goerres/Tiemann 2014 featured in a legal complaint against the European Electons 2019
June 2020: qualitative and quantitative data of the Immigrant German Election Study are available for the scientific community
April 2020: R&R by the British Journal of Political Science for a study Goerres/Mayer/Spies on party preference formation among immigrant-origin voters in Germany
Since mid-March professional survival mode switched on, thanks to Covid-19., head of the department during the worst crisis ever and university teacher of major courses switched to remote teaching
18 January 2020: lunch lecture on transnational voting behaviour at the 24h of political psychology in Hagen, find the slide at the project page
15 January 2020: first presentation of IMGES findings on transnational voting behaviour of Germans of Turkish descent