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Menschen protestieren für Rechte von Transpersonen

Credit: Thiago Rocha

Gwendolyn Mingham receives Franz-Urban-Pappi-Prize

Gwendolyn Mingham receives Franz-Urban-Pappi-Prize for their Master thesis “LGB without the T? Testing the Transferability of International Gay Norm Diffusion Predictors on Transgender Rights“.

Lorenz-von-Stein Prize and Bojanovsky Award for Oliver Rittmann

Dr. Oliver Rittmann has been awarded this year's dissertation prize from the Prof. Dr. Anna and Prof. Dr. Jörg Jiri Bojanovsky Foundation as well as the prestigious Lorenz-von-Stein Prize for his dissertation titled “Video-as-Data for the Study of Parliamentary Speech: Methodology and Application”.

Credit: M. Muhammad

New publication by Domantas Undzenas

The paper co-authored by Domantas Undzenas and Muhammad Muhammad „Entangled fates—the rally effect around Europe due to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine“ has been published by Springer Nature Limited in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.

Zwei Studierende werden beraten, dabei sind die Hände und der Stift der Mitarbeiterin, der auf ein Papier zeigt, im Fokus.

Credit: Anna Logue

Data Analysis Exam Review – Klausureinsicht

Students who would like to look at their Data Analysis exam should come to room B221 in A5,6 on Monday, 23 June 2025, between 9:00 and 10:00.

Credit: The University of Chicago Press

New Publication: Coalition-directed Voting under Uncertainty (forthcoming)

Oke Bahnsen, Lukas F. Stötzer and Thomas Gschwend

Rheinpfalz nimmt Bezug auf Studie zu Wahlrechtsreform

Die Rheinpfalz vom 26. Februar 2025 zitiert den Artikel “Zwischen Wahlkreisreduzierung und Bürgernähe: Zur aktuellen Reformdiskussion des Wahlrechts in Baden-Württemberg” von Thomas Gschwend, Oliver Rittmann und Lisa-Marie Werner, der 2023 in der “Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen” erschienen ist.

Credit: Cambridge University Press

New Publication:The Zweitstimme Forecast for the German Federal Election 2025: Coalition Majorities and Vacant Districts

The article co-authored by the Zweitsstimme.org team provides a forecast to the German Federal Election of 2025. It can be read here.

Vortrag “Keine Kristallkugel! Die wissenschaftlichen Prognosen zur Bundestagswahl 2025”

Im Rahmen der öffentlichen Vortragsreihe “Die Mannheimer Politikwissenschaft in der Sternwarte” referierte Thomas Gschwend am 18.02.2025. Im Vortrag von Thomas Gschwend und Hannah Rajski wurden die Gründe und Einschränkungen von Wahlprognosen auf Basis von Umfragen erläutert. Zudem wurde mit ...

zweitstimme.org predicts outcome of Bundestag election

The Zweitstimme.org project is preparing for the upcoming federal election on February 23. Initial projections are already available online and will be updated regularly, including relevant information for each constituency. Since the 2017 federal election, an interdisciplinary research team has ...

Talk on scientific prediction models for the federal election 2025

As part of the lecture series on voter attitudes, voting behavior, party competition, and coalition formation, Thomas Gschwend will speak about scientific forecasting models for the 2025 election. In his talk “Keine Kristallkugel! Die wissenschaftlichen Prognosen zur Bundestagswahl 2025 (“No ...