Elections
Dr. Helmut Philipp Aust
Professor of Law
Department of Law
Public Law
Van't-Hoff.-Str. 8, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- International law
- Human rights
- German and foreign constitutional law
Dr. Endre Borbáth
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Sociology
Research Unit Political Sociology
Garystr. 55, 14195 Berlin
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Further languages: Hungarian, Romanian
Areas of Expertise
- Political parties and protest (comparative perspective)
- Programmatic structure
- Economic crises
- East/West differences
- Eastern Europe (Hungary, Romania, Poland)
- Elections
- Democracy
- Conflict structures
Dr. Nils Diederich
Professor of Political Science
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Empirical Political Sociology / Otto Stammer Center
Ihnestraße 21, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Home)
Areas of Expertise
- Domestic policy
- Electoral studies
- Political parties
- Interest groups
- Motivation of first-time voters and non-voters
- Political system
- Social inequality
Dr. Martin Emmer
Professor of Communication Studies
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Journalism and Communication Studies
Media Use
Garystr. 55, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Media use
- Use of online media, social media, etc.
- Computer mediated communication (CMC - Internet/online media/web 2.0)
- Media shift
- Political online communication
- Political media effects
- Campaigns and election campaigns, particularly regarding the use of Internet/online media
- Survey research
- Quantitative media research
- Media and communication in Africa and developing countries
Dr. Thorsten Faas
Professor of Political Science
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Political Sociology of the Federal Republic of Germany
Ihnestr.21, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Areas of Expertise
- Election research
- Election campaigns
- Political communication
- Political parties
- Elections
Sebastian Hoppe
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for East European Studies
Department of Political Science
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- political economy of Russia, especially economic, infrastructure and resource policies
- politics and economy in the Russian Far East
- Russian-Chinese relations
- regime dynamics and social mobilization in Russia and Ukraine
Dr. Swen Hutter
Professor of Political Sociology
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Sociology
Political Sociology
Garystrasse 55, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Social movements
- Protest
- Political parties
- Right-wing populism
- Civil society
- Europe
Dr. Gero Neugebauer
Professor of Political Sociology
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Center for Empirical Political Sociology
Ihnestraße 21, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Home)
Mobile
Homepage
Areas of Expertise
- German political parties and party systems before and after 1990, especially the SPD and the Left
- Elections
- Voting behavior
- Political system of Germany, including GDR
Ph.D. Christoph Nguyen
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Chair of German Politics
Ihnestr. 22, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- social inequality
- voting behavior
- social policy
Dr. Paul Nolte
Professor of Modern History
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Friedrich Meinecke Institute
Modern History
Koserstraße 20, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Phone (Assistant)
Homepage
Areas of Expertise
- Contemporary German history
- German society and politics in historical and contemporary dimensions
- Democracy, past and present
- Transformation of the political party system, elections, and social milieus
Dr. Ulrich Rendtel
Professor of Statistics and Econometrics
School of Business and Economics
Statistics and Econometrics
Garystraße 21, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Surveys
- Missing values
- Nonresponse
- Panel surveys
- Microcensus
- Statistical consulting
- Zensus 2011
Dr. Julia Reuschenbach
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science
Center for Political Sociology of Germany
Ihnestraße 21, Berlin 14195
Areas of Expertise
- Election and party research
- Political communication and political culture
- German contemporary history after 1945
- politics of history and culture of memory
- political science teaching at universities
Dr. Dennis Steffan
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for Media and Communication Studies
Division Communication Theory and Media Effects
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Election campaigns (USA, Germany, EU)
- Political campaigns and election campaign strategies
- Politicians and parties on social media
- (Self-)portrayal and evaluation of politicians
- Images in politics
- Gender and politics
Dr. Max Steinhardt
Professor of Economics
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of Economics
Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Homepage
Areas of Expertise
- Economics of the labor market
- Political economics
- Economics of migration
- Integration and migration
- U.S. economic policy
Dr. Joachim Trebbe
Professor of Media Analysis
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for Media and Communication Studies
Division of Media Analysis / Research Methods
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- The use of media and its effects (campaigns, advertising, change of attitude)
- Media content (television, Internet, press): program structures, media mechanisms, news selection, celebrity reporting
- Media, political communication, election campaigns, scandals
- The media and migration (the use of media by immigrants; representation of immigrants in the media)
- Religion in the media
Dr. Jochen Töpfer
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for East European Studies
Division of Sociology
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Social, political, and economic aspects of the transformation processes in Eastern Europe
- Emphasis on southeastern Europe / former Yugoslavia / Albania
- Privatization
- Informality and neo-feudalism
- Parties and political elites
- Sociology of religion: structures, actors, processes
- Religion and society
- Religion and politics
- Religion and conflict