Assistant Professorship Political Science Research Methods
Research methods are the tools of political science for answering empirical questions in all subfields of the discipline. In teaching, the assistant professorship introduces students to quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection and analysis. In research, the focus is on comparative research on political attitudes and behavior. Current research topics include political participation, youth and politics, direct democracy, and election forecasting. Methodologically, the application of experimental and quasi-experimental approaches in individual and aggregate data analysis plays a prominent role. Furthermore, a further methodological focus lies on primary data collection through population surveys.
News from Science, Media & the Public
Repeat election and voting age 16: In an
interview with Neues Deutschland, Jun.-Prof. Arndt Leininger spoke about the election rerun in Berlin and, together with Thorsten Faas, he commented on the recent lowering of the voting age for European elections to 16 from a political science perspective in the
Verfassungsblog.
New Project: The research project "Polarization through and in referendums: mapping polarization within and beyond the party system" is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) under the Emmy-Noether-Program. The first funding phase starts in October 2022 and runs until September 2025.
New publication: „Temporary disenfranchisement: negative side-effects of lowering the voting age“ (co-authored with Marie-Lou Sohnius, University of Mannheim, Thorsten Faas, Free University Berlin, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Goethe University Frankfurt, and Armin Schäfer, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) has been published in
American Political Science Review (open access).