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Studie zu Protest und Vergnügen erschienen
Dr. Philipp Baur hat im Juli 2023 seine Dissertation über die Rolle von Musik in der Friedensbewegung der 1980er Jahre publiziert. Sie argumentiert, dass die Verschränkung von Protest und Vergnügen ein Kennzeichen der Protestkultur war. Vergnügen im Sinne einer positiven Emotion der Heiterkeit und ...
Erfahrungsbericht einer OSI Praktikantin und Masterandin der Klinischen Psychologie
Im Newsletter der Universität ist ein Erfahrungsbericht einer ehemaligen OSI Praktikantin und Masterandin der Klinischen Psychologie der Universität erschienen.
Herzliche Einladung zum Schauspielpatient*innen-Programm
Das Veranstaltungsverzeichnis des Gasthörer- und Seniorenstudiums wurde veröffentlicht. Auf Seite 15 finden Sie auch unsere Einladung zum Schauspielpatient*innen-Programm.
Dr. Leo Schmallenbach receives the Karin-Islinger-Award
We congratulate our colleague Dr. Leo Schmallenbach who has received the Karin-Islinger-Award for his dissertation on the topic of “Gender differences in innovation and competitive settings”. The Karin-Islinger-Foundation awards outstanding scientific research work at the University of Mannheim in ...
TIM Division Best Reviewer Award (AOM 2023) for Leo Schmallenbach
Congratulations to our colleague Leo Schmallenbach who has received the “TIM Division Best Reviewer Award” for his excellent reviews for the Technology and Innovation Management Division as part of the AOM 2023 Annual Meeting Paper Review process. Leo Schmallenbach has received the award this year ...
New publication for Marc Lerchenmüller and Leo Schmallenbach “Gender disparities in Altmetric attention scores for cardiovascular research”
Our colleagues Marc Lerchenmüller and Leo Schmallenbach alongside Maximilian Bley and Carolin Lerchenmüller (Heidelberg University) published a new article in the journal Nature Communications Biology. The study unveils gender disparities in the recognition of scientific contributions. The author ...
Info-Session für den Master in Management im Bereich Marketing & Sales
Du beginnst gerade deinen Mannheimer Master in Management? In einer Info-Session am 31. August informieren wir dich über den Schwerpunkt Marketing & Sales!
Oliver Rittmann. He is wearing black sweater and is standing inside the A5 building.
Hot of the press – Legislators' Emotional Engagement with Women's Issues: Gendered Patterns of Vocal Pitch in the German Bundestag
Women in the Bundestag speak more often and more emotionally than men about issues that particularly affect women – because they are more interested in them than their male colleagues. This is the result of a recent study by Oliver Rittmann, CDSS doctoral student at the Department of Political ...
“Jugendliche sind kompetent genug”
Interview mit Professor Geschwend zum neuen Kommunal-Wahlrecht im Mannheimer Morgen
Portrait von Thomas Gschwend. Er trägt ein hellblaues Hemd sowie einen dunkelblauen Blazer unf steht lächelnd vor einem Fenster.
Mit 16 Jahren im Gemeinderat?
Der Politikwissenschaftler Professor Thomas Gschwend, Ph.D., spricht mit dem Mannheimer Morgen über die Wahlreform in Mannheim, aufgrund derer bei den Kommunalwahlen 2024 erstmals auch 16- und 17-Jährige kandidieren können.
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!