Finished Projects

Strategic Voting (AUTNES)

funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)/Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
duration 2013 – 2015

Making Electoral Democracy Work

Researcher: Steffen Zittlau
funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
duration 2011 – 2016

The Federal Constitutional Court as a Veto Player

with Christoph Hönnige (Göttingen) 
Researcher(s): Caroline Wittig, Benjamin Engst (Göttingen)
funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
duration 2011 – 2014

Measuring a Common Space and the Dynamics of Reform Positions

with Sven-Oliver Proksch
funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Collaborative Research Center (SFB 884)
duration 2010 – 2014

Electoral Systems and Party Personnel: The Consequences of Reform and Non-Reform

with Thomas Zittel
Researchers: Thomas Gschwend, Thomas Zittel
funded by National Science Foundation (NSF)
duration 2008 – 2013

Personal Campaign Strategies and Political Representation

with Hermann Schmitt, Wolfgang C. Müller, Andreas M. Wüst, Thomas Zittel, Bernard Wessels (WZB)
funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)/Fritz Thyssen Foundation
duration 2005 – 2013

Contamination Effects in Multi-level Systems of Governance

Researcher: Thomas Gschwend
funded by Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES)
duration 2005 – 2011

Expectation Formation and Electoral Decision-Making

with Franz Urban Pappi 
Researcher: Michael Herrmann
funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) 
duration 2005 – 2008 

The French Study: The Strategies of Voters in the Super-Election of 2002 in France

with Hermann Schmitt
Researcher: Thomas Gschwend
funded by Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), Fritz Thyssen Foundation, ZA (Cologne) and CSA (Paris)
duration 2002 – 2005

The French Study: Political Leaders in the Super-Election of 2002 in France

with Hermann Schmitt 
Researchers: Thomas Gschwend, Dirk Leuffen, Christine Pütz, Andrea Römmele, Hermann Schmitt, 
funded by Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), Fritz Thyssen Foundation, ZA (Cologne), and CSA (Paris)
duration 2002 – 2005