October 2024: Conditional accept for a the paper on transnational political interest from Political Studies (with the late Dennis C. Spies, Sabrina J. Mayer, Jonas Elis)
24-27 September attending the tri-annual wizard tournament / ...no wait: conference of the German Political Science Association, presenting three papers
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"
13-14 June attending a retreat by the North-West German Network of Conflict Studies hosted by Johannes Vüllers, Mülheim a.d.R.
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