Short Academic C.V.

Employment

04/2018-03/2019 Assistant Professor (not tenured; “Akademischer Rat auf Zeit”) in Comparative Politics and Methods, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf

10/2017-03/2018 Interim Professor in Comparative Politics, LMU Munich, Faculty of Social Sciences

10/2012-09/2017 Assistant Professor (not tenured; “Akademischer Rat auf Zeit”) in Comparative Politics and Methods, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf

10/2011-09/2012 Interim Professor in Comparative Politics, University of Greifswald

10/2010-09/2012 Research Assistant and Lecturer, Chair for European and German Politics, University of Potsdam (on leave during the stay in Greifswald)

04/2010-10/2010 Research Assistant and Lecturer in Political Sociology, GESIS Data Archive, Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Cologne

07/2009-03/2010 Researcher, Project of the German Research Foundation (DFG) on “The Dynamics of Interparty Competition. Part II”, Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Cologne

04/2004-06/2009 Research Assistant and Lecturer, Chair for Comparative Politics, Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Cologne

Education

10/2017 Dr. phil. habil. (Habilitation in Political Science), Faculty for Philosophy, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf

09/2009 Dr. rer.pol (PhD in Political Science), Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Cologne

12/2003 Master in Economics and Political Science (“Volkswirtschaftslehre sozialwissenschaftlicher Richtung, Diplom Volkswirt), Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Cologne

Current Research Projects

2016-2019 German Research Foundation (DFG): The Impact of the opposition in established democracies, Party Research Institute Düsseldorf
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Recent Publications

2019 (with Heiko Giebler and Thomas Poguntke) It’s not only the economy stupid! Issue Yield at the 2017 German Federal Election, Special Issue in West European Politics, edited by Lorenz De Sio and Romain Lachat (forthcoming)

2019 (with Dennis C. Spies) (mit Dennis C. Spies) Party Competition and Vote Choice,  in a Special Issue of the Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie „Cross-National Comparative Research“, edited by Hans-Jürgen Andreß, Detlef Fetchenhauer, and Heiner Meulemann. (forthcoming)

2019 Extra-Parliamentary Opposition within a transforming political space: AfD and FDP under Merkel III between 2013 and 2017, German Politics (online first: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09644008.2018.1512972)

2018    Die Schwäche der Opposition, außerparlamentarische Opposition und die Emergenz neuer Regierungsperspektiven, in: Thomas Saalfeld und Reimut Zohlnhöfer (Hrsg.): Bilanz der dritten Regierung Merkel, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 141-167.

2018 (with Johannes Schmitt) A Polarizing Dynamic by Center Cabinets? The Mechanism of Limited Contestation. Zeitschrift für Historische Sozialforschung - Historical Social Research 43(1): pp. 168-209

2018 Von der Euro-Opposition zur Kosmopolitismus-Opposition. Der Fall der deutschen AfD. In: Lisa Anders, Henrik Scheller und Thomas Tuntschew (Hrsg.): Parteien und die Politisierung der Europäischen Union. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 365-402.

2018    Wer ist das Volk? Rechtspopulismus und Demokratie. Arbeitskreis deutscher Bildungsstätten e.V./Außerschulische Bildung, Berlin

2017 (with Annika Hennl) The Effects of Manifesto Politics on Policy Change. In: Susan Scarrow, Paul Webb und Thomas Poguntke (Eds.): Organizing Political Parties: Representation, Participation, and Power. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 259-284.

2017 (with Johannes Schmitt) Wie schädlich sind große Koalitionen? Zum Zusammenhang von Regierungs-Oppositionskonstellation und ideologischer Polarisierung. In: Uwe Jun, Oskar Niedermayer und Sebastian Bukow (Eds.): Parteien unter Wettbewerbsdruck. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 89-120.

2017 Populismus als Herausforderung für die Politische Bildung. Politisches Lernen 1-2, pp. 10-13.

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