Prof. Dr. Eric Linhart
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Phone:+49 371 531-30210
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Address:Thüringer Weg 9, 09126 Chemnitz
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| 1997-2002 | Studies in Political Science and Mathematics (University of Mannheim) |
| 1997-2002 | Student Assistant (Mannheim Centre for European Social Research) |
| 2002-2007 | Research Assistant (Mannheim Centre for European Social Research and Faculty of Social Science) |
| 2006 | Doctor in Political Science (University of Mannheim), supervisors: Prof. Dr. Franz U. Pappi, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang C. Müller |
| 2007-2014 | Junior Professor for Applied Political Economy (University of Kiel) |
| 2010-2011 |
Visiting Professor for Comparative Politics (University of Kiel) |
| 2012-2013 | Fellow at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg/Institute for Advanced Study in Delmenhorst |
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2013-2014 |
Visiting Professor for German Politics (University of Göttingen) |
| 2015 |
Habilitation in Political Science (University of Kiel) |
| 2015 |
Post-Doc Researcher (University of Heidelberg) |
| since 2015 |
Professor for Political Systems (Chemnitz University of Technology) |
| since 2020 |
Editor-in-Chief of the Politische Vierteljahresschrift/German Political Science Quarterly |
| since 2022 | Dean of the Faculty of Humanities |
Memberships
- Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
- German Political Science Association (Deutsche Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft DVPW)
- DVPW Standing Group ‘Methods in Political Science’
- DVPW Research Network ‘Decision Theory, Game Theory and Public Choice’ (Speaker between 2010 and 2016)
- International Political Science Association (IPSA)
- Public Choice Society
- ECPR Standing Group ‘Political Parties’
- CES Territorial Politics and Federalism Research Network
Data and codes
Data, codebooks, codes and further material with respect to selected publications can be found at Research (Data).
Research Interests
- The German political system
- Electoral systems and voting behavior
- Parties, party families and party systems
- Coalition theory
- Lobbying
- Decision theory and game theory
More information can be found at Research (Main research areas).
Publications
Selected publications of Prof. Dr. Linhart:
Eichhorn, Kristin and Eric Linhart (2021): Estimating the effect of competitiveness on turnout across regime types, Political Studies 69(3): 602-622.
Graichen, Robin, Eric Linhart, Christopher Schuster, Udo Heller and Andreas Müller (2021): Coalizer: A coalition tool combining office and policy motivations of political parties, Journal of Information Technology & Politics 18(3): 274-292.
Linhart, Eric, Johannes Raabe and Patrick Statsch (2019): Mixed-member proportional electoral systems – the best of both worlds? Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties 29(1): 21-40.
Jankowski, Michael, Eric Linhart and Markus Tepe (2019): Welches Wahlsystem wollen die Wähler? Evidenz von einem Conjoint-Experiment, Politische Vierteljahresschrift 60(2): 221-243.
Raabe, Johannes and Eric Linhart (2018): Which electoral systems succeed at providing proportionality and concentration? Promising designs and risky tools, European Political Science Review 10(2): 167-190.
Raabe, Johannes and Eric Linhart (2015): Does substance matter? A model of qualitative portfolio allocation and application to German state governments between 1990 and 2010, Party Politics 21(3): 481-492.
Raabe, Johannes and Eric Linhart (2014): Disentangling the value of a ministry: Party leaders’ evaluations of German state ministries, West European Politics 37(5): 1065-1086.
Shikano, Susumu and Eric Linhart (2010): Coalition-formation as a result of policy and office motivations in the German federal states: An empirical estimate of the weighting parameters of both motivations, Party Politics 16(1): 111-130.
Linhart, Eric and Susumu Shikano (2009): A basic tool set for a generalized directional model, Public Choice 140(1-2): 85-104.
A complete list of publications can be found here.