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Chair in Qualitative Empirical Research Methods

Dr. Benedikt Bender

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Dr. Benedikt Bender

Research Fellow

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+49 69 798 36641
b.bender@soz.uni-frankfurt.de
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Address

Institut für Politikwissenschaft
Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Goethe-Universität
Theodor-W.-Adorno Platz 6

60323 Frankfurt am Main

Benedikt Bender has been working at Goethe University in teaching, research and university self-administration since January 2020. In addition to comparative methodology, the research focus covers two broad topics: political economy and welfare state reforms in an EU comparison. On the one hand, the focus is on the conflict between trade unions and employers' associations, i.e. which reforms do they support and which ones are rejected. On the other hand, it is analyzed whether and if so to what extent organized interests are involved in the national policy process. Mr. Bender's research has been published in a monograph and several book chapters, as well as in journals such as the Journal of Social Policy and Industrial Relations. In addition, Mr. Bender directs the Reform Monitor of Political Conflict (ReMoPo), which is continuously updated and expanded.

Research Fellow (Post-Doc) at the Department of Social Sciences

Political sciences at the Chair in Qualitative Empirical Research Methods
Professorship Dr. Claudius Wagemann
Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
since 01/2020

Fellow at the SFB 884, Political Economy of Reforms at the University of Mannheim

Project: „Welfare state reform support from below: linking individual attitudes and organized interests in Europe“
From 01/2020 to 07/2022

Research assistant (PhD student) at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES)

Projekt: Krisenkorporatismus oder Korporatismus in der Krise? Soziale Konzertierung und Sozialpakte in Europa
From 08/2016 to 12.2019

Research assistant (PhD student) at the Chair of Macrosociology at the University of Mannheim

From 10/2014 to 12/2019

Political economy

Comparative welfare state research

Organized interests (especially business associations and trade unions)

Comparative methodology

Bender, Benedikt (2020): Politisch-ökonomische Konfliktlinien im sich wandelnden Wohlfahrtsstaat. Wiesbaden: Springer-VS, https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-658-31825-3

  • Bender, Benedikt/ Malsch, Laura (in press): Politische Konflikte in der Sozialpolitik zwischen 2017-2021 in Deutschland: Eine Inhaltsanalyse von Plenardokumenten und Pressemitteilungen, Zeitschrift für Sozialreform, angenommen am 28.02.2024.
  • Bender, Benedikt (2023): Class Conflict or Consensus? Understanding Social Partner Positions on Social Policy Reforms. Journal of Social Policy. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279422000873
  • Bender, Benedikt/ Paster, Thomas (2023): What types of social policies does business want? Examining German employer associations' positions toward labor-protective and labor-activating social policies. Business and Politics https://doi.org/10.1017/bap.2023.18 (open access).
  • Bender, Benedikt/ Bruinsmaa, Bastian (2022): Patterns in the Press Releases of Trade Unions. How to Use Structural Topic Models in the Field of Industrial Relations. German Journal of Industrial Relations. https://doi.org/10.3224/indbez.v29i2.02
  • Forthcoming: How Organized Interests Shape Labour Relations and Social Policies (with B.Ebbinghaus). In: Greve, Bent/ Amílcar, Moreira/ Gerven van, Minna (eds.): Handbook of the Political Economy of Social Policy. Edward Elgar.
  • Bender, Benedikt/ Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2021): When governments include social partners in crisis corporatism: Comparing social concertation in Europe during the Great Recession. In: Ebbinghaus, Bernhard/ J. Timo Weishaupt (eds.): The Role of Social Partners in Managing Europe's Great Recession: Crisis Corporatism or Corporatism in Crisis? Routledge Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State, page: 24-50. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003186144
  • Bender, Benedikt/ Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (2020): Social concertation in Europe during the Great Recession: A fsQCA-study of social partner involvement. S. 33-50 in: Romana Careja, Patrick Emmenegger, Nathalie Giger (Hrsg.) The European Social Model under Pressure. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-27043-8_3
  • Buss, Christopher/ Bender, Benedikt (2018): Positions of Interest Groups Towards Labour Market Reforms in Germany: A Novel Content Analysis of Press Releases. S. 81-105 in: Bernhard Ebbinghaus, Elias Naumann (Hrsg.) Welfare State Reforms Seen from Below. Comparing Public Attitudes and Organized Interests in Britain and Germany. London: Palgrave Macmillan. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63652-8_4
  • Bender, Benedikt (2018): Sozialstaatliche Alternativen. S. 610-630 in: Gisela Kubon-Gilke (Hrsg.) Gestalten der Sozialpolitik: Theoretische Grundlegungen und Anwendungsbeispiele. Marburg: Metropolis. ISBN 978-3-7316-1279-7
  • Bender, Benedikt (2017): Polnisches Puzzle. Organisation, Mitgliederentwicklung und politische Beteiligung von Gewerkschaften und Arbeitgeberverbänden aus vergleichender Perspektive. Darmstadt: Deutsches Polen Institut, Polen-Analysen: 208, ISSN: 1863 – 9712, https://www.laender-analysen.de/polen/pdf/PolenAnalysen208.pdf
  • Bender, Benedikt (2017): Staatsbürgerrechte und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt. Nach bürgerlichen und politischen Elementen müssen soziale folgen, um die Stabilität in Europa zu stärken. Berlin: Bundesnetzwerk Bürgerschaftliches Engagement (BBE), Newsletter für Engagement und Partizipation in Europa; 1/2017
  • Gerechtigkeit als normativer Orientierungspunkt für Wissenschaften und Politik, (with G.Kubin-Gilke). Ed.: Forschungszentrum der Evangelischen Hochschule Darmstadt. Working Paper University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt: ISSN 2193-6501 https://www.eh-darmstadt.de/fileadmin/user_upload/PDFs/Forschung/Arbeitspapier_Nr_17.pdf

2023

  • Europe´s Past, Present, and Future: Utopias and Dystopias, CES, Reykjavik, Iceland
  • Crisis and Transformation, DVPW, University Witten/Herdecke, Germany

2022

  • The Environment of Democracy. CES, Portugal, Lisboa
  • Wer gewinnt, wer verliert? Zugespitzte Verteilungskonflikte in Zeiten multipler Krisen. DVPW, Freie Universität Berlin.

2021

  • E la nave va? Social Science Perspectives on Italy, Germany and the European Union after a decade of crises. Italy, Villa Vigoni, 07.-09. October 2021