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Prof. Dr. Thomas Zittel

Professor for Comparative Politics

Goethe-University Frankfurt
Department of Social Sciences
Campus Westend - PEG, Room 3.G108
Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 6
60323 Frankfurt am Main

Voice: +49 69 798-36678
E-Mail: zittel(at)soz.uni-frankfurt.de

Postal address:
Department of Social Sciences
Postbox 40
60629 Frankfurt am Main
Thomas Zittel also holds the Max Weber Visiting Chair for German and European Studies at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies (CEMS) at New York University (USA). Roni Lehrer, Ph.D. will act as interim professor in academic years 2021/22 through 2023/24.
  • Just Published: Steiner, Nils D., Hoffeller, Lucca, Gutheil, Yanick, and Wiesenfeldt, Tobias. 2023. Class Voting for Radical-Left  Parties in Western Europe. The Libertarian vs. Authoritarian Trade-off. Party Politics. Online First.   
  • New Project: "When and why do citizens distrust politicians. The role of the representative function (TRUPOL)". Funded by the German Research Association (DFG) within the Weave Lead Agency-Procedure in cooperation with Stefanie Bailer (University Basel) funded by the Swiss Research Association (SNF). The duration of the project is 2023 - 2025.
  • Just Published: Zittel, Thomas, Louwerse, Tom, Pedersen, Helene Helboe and Schakel, Wouter. Should we conduct correspondence study field experiments with political elites? International Political Science Review. Online First.
  • Just Published: Pedersen, Helene Helboe, Louwerse, Tom und Zittel, Thomas. 2022. Ethics audits in cross-national research: Experiences from correspondence study field experiments with national politicians in four European democracies. Political Studies Review 20(2): 184-191. Find paper here
  • Just Published: Bol, Damien, Gschwend, Thomas, Zittel, Thomas, und Zittlau, Steffen. 2021. The importance of personal vote intentions for the responsiveness of legislators: A field experiment. European Journal of Political Research 60(2): 455-473. Find paper here.
  • Just Published: Zittel, Thomas und Nyhuis, Dominic. 2021. The legislative effects of campaign personalization. An analysis on the legislative behavior of successful German constituency candidates. Comparative Political Studies 54(2): 312-338. Find paper here.
  • Just Published: Zittel, Thomas. 2020. The beliefs of parliamentary candidates on electoral democracy. Who are the guardians of democracy and what motivates them? in: Lieven de Winter, Rune Karlsen, Hermann Schmitt (Hg.). Parliamentary Candidates Between Voters and Parties. A Comparative Perspective. London: Routledge, S. 196-217. Info hier.
  • 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.
  • 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.

› Current syllabi

› Examination Results

  • Thomas Zittel presents paper (with Katjana Gattermann) at the ECPR General Conference, 4 – 8 September 2023, Charles University Prague. Info here. 
  • Thomas Zittel presents paper (with Manuel Garcia Diaz) at the 8th Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments, 6 – 8 July 2023, University of Vienna. Info here.
  • Workshop on "The Frankfurt Assembly and Democracy". Organized by Ulrich Sieberer, Simone Wegmann and Thomas Zittel for the DVPW Standing Group on Comparative Parliamentarism on 30.6.2023 at Evangelische Akademie Frankfurt. With contributions from Andreas Biefang, Michael Koß, Claudia Landwehr, Philip Manow, Hedwig Richter, Armin Schäfer, Ulrich Sieberer und Christina Zuber. The recorded Workshop can be found here.
  • Thomas Zittel presents paper (withMarkus Baumann) at the 80th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, 13 – 16 April 2023, Chicago, Ill. Info here.
  • International workshop of our TRUPOL Project (Trust in Politicians, funded by DFG and SNSF within Weave-Program),  University Basel,  16 – 17 March 2023.
  • Thomas Zittel presents Paper (with Wouter Schakel, Markus Baumann, Diane Bolet, Rosie Campbell, Tom Louwerse) in invited talk, 7 March 2023, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. Information here.
  • Conversation with Metin Hakverdi, MdB on „One year later: Russia's war in Ukraine, Germany's policy pivot, and implications for transatlantic relations"; 23 February 2023, 6-7:30 pm at Deutsches Haus, New York University, New York, NY. Information can be found here.
  • Thomas Zittel presents paper at the bi-annual meeting of the DVPW research group on  "Comparative Legislative Studies", 6. - 7. October 2022, University Bremen.
  • Thomas Zittel presents paper (with Markus Baumann) at APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition 2022, 15. - 18. September, Montreal. Info here.
  • Just Published: Steiner, Nils D., Hoffeller, Lucca, Gutheil, Yanick, and Wiesenfeldt, Tobias. 2023. Class Voting for Radical-Left  Parties in Western Europe. The Libertarian vs. Authoritarian Trade-off. Party Politics. Online First.   
  • New Project: "When and why do citizens distrust politicians. The role of the representative function (TRUPOL)". Funded by the German Research Association (DFG) within the Weave Lead Agency-Procedure in cooperation with Stefanie Bailer (University Basel) funded by the Swiss Research Association (SNF). The duration of the project is 2023 - 2025.
  • Just Published: Zittel, Thomas, Louwerse, Tom, Pedersen, Helene Helboe and Schakel, Wouter. Should we conduct correspondence study field experiments with political elites? International Political Science Review. Online First.
  • Just Published: Pedersen, Helene Helboe, Louwerse, Tom und Zittel, Thomas. 2022. Ethics audits in cross-national research: Experiences from correspondence study field experiments with national politicians in four European democracies. Political Studies Review 20(2): 184-191. Find paper here
  • Just Published: Bol, Damien, Gschwend, Thomas, Zittel, Thomas, und Zittlau, Steffen. 2021. The importance of personal vote intentions for the responsiveness of legislators: A field experiment. European Journal of Political Research 60(2): 455-473. Find paper here.
  • Just Published: Zittel, Thomas und Nyhuis, Dominic. 2021. The legislative effects of campaign personalization. An analysis on the legislative behavior of successful German constituency candidates. Comparative Political Studies 54(2): 312-338. Find paper here.
  • Just Published: Zittel, Thomas. 2020. The beliefs of parliamentary candidates on electoral democracy. Who are the guardians of democracy and what motivates them? in: Lieven de Winter, Rune Karlsen, Hermann Schmitt (Hg.). Parliamentary Candidates Between Voters and Parties. A Comparative Perspective. London: Routledge, S. 196-217. Info hier.
  • 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.
  • 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.

› Current syllabi

› Examination Results

  • Thomas Zittel presents paper (with Katjana Gattermann) at the ECPR General Conference, 4 – 8 September 2023, Charles University Prague. Info here. 
  • Thomas Zittel presents paper (with Manuel Garcia Diaz) at the 8th Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments, 6 – 8 July 2023, University of Vienna. Info here.
  • Workshop on "The Frankfurt Assembly and Democracy". Organized by Ulrich Sieberer, Simone Wegmann and Thomas Zittel for the DVPW Standing Group on Comparative Parliamentarism on 30.6.2023 at Evangelische Akademie Frankfurt. With contributions from Andreas Biefang, Michael Koß, Claudia Landwehr, Philip Manow, Hedwig Richter, Armin Schäfer, Ulrich Sieberer und Christina Zuber. The recorded Workshop can be found here.
  • Thomas Zittel presents paper (withMarkus Baumann) at the 80th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, 13 – 16 April 2023, Chicago, Ill. Info here.
  • International workshop of our TRUPOL Project (Trust in Politicians, funded by DFG and SNSF within Weave-Program),  University Basel,  16 – 17 March 2023.
  • Thomas Zittel presents Paper (with Wouter Schakel, Markus Baumann, Diane Bolet, Rosie Campbell, Tom Louwerse) in invited talk, 7 March 2023, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. Information here.
  • Conversation with Metin Hakverdi, MdB on „One year later: Russia's war in Ukraine, Germany's policy pivot, and implications for transatlantic relations"; 23 February 2023, 6-7:30 pm at Deutsches Haus, New York University, New York, NY. Information can be found here.
  • Thomas Zittel presents paper at the bi-annual meeting of the DVPW research group on  "Comparative Legislative Studies", 6. - 7. October 2022, University Bremen.
  • Thomas Zittel presents paper (with Markus Baumann) at APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition 2022, 15. - 18. September, Montreal. Info here.

Administration

Melanie Wolf

Campus Westend - PEG
Room 3.G145
Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 6
60323 Frankfurt am Main
Phone: +49 69 798-36685
Mail: vergleichende-politikwissenschaft(at)soz.uni-frankfurt.de

Postal adress:
Department of Social Sciences
Postbox 40
60629 Frankfurt am Main

Office hours:
Tuesday and Thursday 10-12am



Office Hours

Prof. Dr. Thomas Zittel
In person office hours will be held after 9 May every Tuesday 12 - 1:30pm. To register, please send an E-Mail at zittel(at)soz.uni-frankfurt.de. Between 1 April and 9 May 23, please schedule a Zoom meeting by sending an E-Mail to zittel(at)soz.uni-frankfurt.de.   

Roni Lehrer, Ph.D.
Please schedule appointments by sending an e-mail to lehrer(at)soz.uni-frankfurt.de 

Jan Berz, Ph.D.

Please schedule appointments by sending an e-mail to berz(at)soz.uni-frankfurt.de 


Lucca Hoffeller

Please schedule appointments by sending an e-mail to Hoffeller(at)soz.uni-frankfurt.de 


Dr. Markus Baumann has left Goethe University in February 2023. In case of questions, please contact the administrative office.


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