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Three DWS Papers accepted at ICLR 2024
We are happy to announce that papers by DWS members based on the work referenced belwo have been accpepted for ICLR 2024 in Vienna: Jonas Belouadi, Anne Lauscher, Steffen Eger: AutomaTikZ: Text-Guided Synthesis of Scientific Vector Graphics with TikZ (https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.00367). Sascha ...
MAN 690 and MAN 691 Spring Semester
The number of participants is not limited for the courses MAN 690  and MAN 691. Consequentially, there is no need to apply for these courses. Please register online in ILIAS to be able to download the materials for the courses. Course start MAN 690:  Tuesday, 20.02.2024 Course start MAN 691: ...
GBP-Sonderbericht: Landwirt*innen waren schon vor Bekanntgabe geplanter Subventionskürzungen in hohem Maße unzufrieden
Die sofortige Rücknahme der milliardenschweren Kürzungen von Agrarsubventionen – das fordert der Bauernverband seit Bekanntwerden der Sparmaßnahmen des Bundes als Reaktion auf das Haushaltsurteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts im Dezember 2023. Wie Daten des an der Universität Mannheim angesiedelten ...
Alina Greiner accredited as Mental Health First Aider
Dr. Alina Greiner has successfully been accredited as a mental health first aider. In the Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) course Alina learned techniques to identify risk factors and warning signs and reach out and provide initial help and support to students (and others) who may be developing a ...
Klausureinsicht Einführung in die Politikwissenschaft
Am 23.1.2024 von 14 bis 17 Uhr findet die Klausureinsicht für die VL “Einführung in die Politikwissenschaft” in Raum B 219 in A5, 6 statt. Bitte melden Sie sich an unter methods@uni-mannheim.de. Ohne Termin ist keine Einsicht möglich. Bitte bringen Sie ein Ausweisdokument mit.
Neue Module für den Mannheimer Master of Management (MMM) von Top-Dozenten angeboten
Um das Kursangebot des Bereichs Management zu erweitern und zu vertiefen, konnten drei neue Kurse für das MMM-Programm eingeworben werden. Alle drei Kurse werden von hochkarätigen Praktikern geleitet und erstmals im Frühjahrssemester 2024 angeboten, danach aber jedes Semester wiederholt. Außerdem ...
Kinder-Uni im Frühjahrssemester
Die Uni ist nur was für die Großen? Ganz im Gegenteil! Vom 29. Januar bis 9. Februar läuft die Anmeldung für die Kinder-Uni der Universität Mannheim.
Neues Vorlesungsprogramm für Gasthörende und Seniorenstudierende
Das Vorlesungsverzeichnis der Universität Mannheim für das Gasthörer- und Senioren-studium im Frühjahrssemester ist ab sofort online verfügbar.
Portrait of Benjamin Engst. He is wearing a light blue shirt and standing in front of a tree.
CDSS Alumnus Benjamin Engst appointed Associate Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Exciting times ahead for political scientist Benjamin Engst who is looking forward to starting his new position as Associate Professor of Political Science within Public Policy & Administration at NTNU in Trondheim this August.  His research interests include Comparative Politics and Public Policy ...
Florian Pethig. He is wearing a green sweater and is standing in front of a green hedge.
CDSB Alumnus Florian Pethig appointed as Assistant Professor at Tilburg University
Florian Pethig, a CDSB graduate who holds both his master’s and doctoral degrees at the University of Mannheim, has recently joined Tilburg University as an Assistant Professor of Information Systems in the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management. With expertise in digital ...
Exam date

The exam of the BA lecture “Ausgewählte Themen der Vergleichenden Regierungslehre: Authoritarian Politics” held by Professor Traunmüller will take place on Wednesday, 11. June 2025.

The retake of the exam is planned to be on Saturday, 23 August 2025.

26/01/2022 Conditional Accept at PSRM!

Our paper “Computing quantities of interest and their uncertainty using Bayesian simulation” has just been conditionally accepted at Political Science Research & Methods (with Andi Murr and Jeff Gill).

14/12/2021 Invited Talk at WZB

Tomorrow, I will give a talk on “Free Speech and Self-Censorship at the University: Testing the ‘Campus Cancel Culture’ Hypothesis” in the MaD Colloquium at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB).

24/11/2021 Pre-registered Study In-Principle-Accepted!

Our pre-registered study for the GLES Open Science Challenge “Subjective Freedom of Speech: Why Do Citizens Think They Cannot Speak Freely?” (with Jan Menzner) has been in-principle-accepted for publication in Politische Vierteljahresschrift.

06/07/2020 Our Survey Items on Covid-19 are included in ESS Round 10!

Our (Marc Helbling, Rahsaan Maxwell and myself) survey items on Covid-19 were chosen to be included in the next round of the European Social Survey, due to be fielded across Europe from September 2020. The survey items on government authority and legitimacy in the age of a pandemic will focus on attitudes... 

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17/08/2020 Conditional Accept at KZfSS!

Our paper “Is Free Speech in Danger on University Campus? Evidence from a Most Likely Case” (with Matthias Revers) has just been conditionally accepted for publication in the Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie!

17/08/2020 Accept at PA!

What a day: Our paper “Eliciting Beliefs as Distributions in Online Surveys” (with Lucas Leemann and Lukas Stoetzer) has just been accepted for publication in Political Analysis!