Research News

• Just Published: Bol, Damien, Gschwend, Thomas, Zittel, Thomas, and Zittlau, Steffen. The importance of personal vote intentions for the responsiveness of legislators: A field experiment. European Journal of Political Research Online First

• Just Published: Zittel, Thomas and Nyhuis, Dominic. The legislative effects of campaign personalization. An analysis on the legislative behavior of successful German constituency candidates. Comparative Political Studies Online First.

• Just Published: Zittel, Thomas. 2020. Constituency candidates and political representation. In: Robert Rohrschneider and Jacques Thomassen. The Oxford Handbook of Political Representation in Liberal Democracies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Info here.

• Just Published: Campbell, Rosie and Zittel, Thomas. 2020. The personal sources of responsiveness. Introduction to a special section. Swiss Political Science Review 26(1): 1-9.

• Just Published: Stückelberger, Simon. 2020. Angriff ist die beste Mobilisierung: Negative Kampagnen und ihre Zielgruppen. DeFacto, 19 May 2020.

• Just Published: Stuckelberger, Simon. 2019. Mobilizing and Chasing: The voter targeting of negative campaigning - Lessons from the Swiss case. Party Politics Online First.

• Just Published: Baumann, Markus, Debus, Marcus and Gross, Martin. 2019. Strategic issue emphasis in parties’ election campaign statements. Party Politics Online First.

• Just Published: Zittel, Thomas, Nyhuis, Dominic, and Baumann, Markus. 2019. Geographic representation in party-dominated legislatures: A quantitative text analysis of parliamentary questions in the German Bundestag. Legislative Studies Quarterly 44(4): 681-711.

• New Project: Professor Thomas Zittel awarded ORA grant for research of parliamentary representation in fluid voter markets.
  Further information here.

• Just Published: Zittel, Thomas and Nyhuis, Dominic. 2019. Two faces of party unity: Roll-call votes and vote explanations in the German Bundestag. Parliamentary Affairs 72(2): 406-424.

• Just Published: Zittel, Thomas. 2018. Electoral Systems in Context: Germany. In: Erik S. Herron, Robert Pekkanen, and Matthew Soberg Shugart. The Oxford Handbook of Electoral Systems. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 781-801.

Teaching News

• Please mind the recent changes concerning the administration of credits (Prüfungsleistungen and Teilnahmenachweise) issued by the Faculty for Social Sciences, effective from Wintersemester 2015/16. You can find information at "Häufige Fragen elektronische Prüfungsverwaltung" (in German) and in the letter by the dean (in German), that was issued to you via your student mailaddress.

• Arrangements for the supervision of Bachelor- or Masters theses, and for taking other exams, need to be made during Prof. Zittel's office hours. Arrangements via E-Mail are not possible. Please read the Information leaflets concerning this issue that are available under "Lehre" (in German) on this website prior to arranging a meeting during office hours.

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Conference News

• The inaugural conference of the DVPW-Study Group on "Comparative Parliaments" is hosted at Goethe-University Frankfurt on 10. - 11. October 2019. The conference is organized by Markus Baumann and Thomas Zittel. The program can be found here.

• Thomas Zittel (with Tom Louwerse and Wouter Schakel of the University of Leiden and Helene Pedersen of Aarhus University) presents paper at the ECPR General Conference, 4.-7. September 2019, Wroclaw.

• Thomas Zittel (with Dominic Nyhuis, University Hannover) presents paper at the 5. Bi-Annual Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments, 27.-29. June 2019, University Leiden.

• Thomas Zittel (with Markus Baumann, Goethe-University) presents paper at workshop on "Parliamentary Careers in Comparison" (organized by Stefanie Bailer, Simon Hug, und Philip Manow), 26.-27. June 2019, The Hague.

• Thomas Zittel (with Dominic Nyhuis, University Hannover) presents paper at workshop on "Personalization and representation in the study of politics and political communication" (organized by Dr. Katjana Gattermann), 17.-18. June 2019, University of Amsterdam.

• Thomas Zittel (with Dominic Nyhuis, University of Hannover) presents paper at the 77th MPSA Annual Conference, 4.-7. April 2019, Chicago, Ill.

• Thomas Zittel (mit Rosie Campbell, King's College und Jennifer van Heerde-Hudson, University College London) präsentiert Papier anlässlich der 77th MPSA Annual Conference, 4.-7. April 2019, Chicago, Ill.

• Thomas Zittel (with Robert Rohrschneider, University of Kansas) presents paper at the APSA Annual Convention and Exhibition, 29 August–2 September 2018, Boston, MA.

• Thomas Zittel (with Markus Baumann, University of Heidelberg and Dominic Nyhuis, University of Hannover) presents paper at the ECPR General Conference, 22-25 August 2018, Hamburg.