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CDSS alumnus Tilko Swalve joins Leiden University as Assistant Professor
Tilko Swalve joins Leiden University as Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics at the Institute of Political Science at Leiden University. His research interests lie in the interactions between politics and law, with a focus on the role of courts in the political process and the behavior of ...
Winners Thibault Cézanne and Maximilian Göbel with the CEO of UniCredit Bank Austria Robert Zadrazil
CDSE Student Thibault Cézanne awarded with SUERF/UniCredit Foundation Research Prize
Thibault Cézanne, doctoral candidate at the CDSE and ZEW researcher, was awarded the 11th SUERF I UniCredit Foundation Research Prize for his contribution in the workshop 'AI in Banking and Finance'. Alongside Dr. Frank Brueckbauer (ZEW), he co-authored the paper “Bank Manager Sentiment, Excessive ...
Marc Philipp Janson wearing a white shirt in front of a glass door.
CDSS Alumnus Marc Philipp Janson appointed Assistant Professor
Last year in May Marc Philipp succesfully defended his thesis and has now taken up the  ‘Tenure-Track Professorship for Teaching and Learning Psychology with a focus on Educational Design and Educational Effectiveness’ at the Karlsruhe University of Education on 1 September 2024. He'll remain ...
HWS 24: Erstsemester-Treffen und Seminarhock
Danke und Präsentation
Die Bühne auf dem Ehrenhof vor dem Schloss Mittelbau ist in blaues Licht getaucht. Drei Musiker der Band Kabinett stehen auf der Bühne, im Vordergrund ist ein Teil des Publikums zu sehen.
Begeistertes Publikum beim diesjährigen Schlossfest
Kenneth E. Boulding Fellowship
Dr. Andreas Lingg
Vor einer Karte der Nord- und Ostsee ein Kaufmann aus dem 16. Jahrhundert und der Moderator der Sendung
Die Hanse: MrWissen2go
mit Mannheimer Unterstützung
„Zwischen Exzellenz und Expansion: Südwestdeutsche Wissenschaftspolitik im deutschen und europäischen Kontext von 1978 bis heute“
25./26. September 2024, Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, Konrad-Adenauer-Str. 4, 70173 Stuttgart
„Zwischen Exzellenz und Expansion: Südwestdeutsche Wissenschaftspolitik im deutschen und europäischen Kontext von 1978 bis heute“
25./26. September 2024, Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, Konrad-Adenauer-Str. 4, 70173 Stuttgart
Welcome to our new GESS student
We are thrilled to welcome Nicola Schmitt, who has just started her Ph.D. in Management at the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (GESS) of the University of Mannheim. In her doctoral studies, Nicola is eager to delve into research on Digital Transformation and Innovation, with a ...
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!