Short CV

• Professor of Comparative Politics (C4, Chair), University of Greifswald, Department of Political Science, since 1999.
• Venia legendi (German post doctorial degree: Habilitation) in Political Sociology, University of Paderborn, 1998.
• Doctor in Political and Social Sciences of the European University Institute (Florence), 1991.
• Diplom Soziologe (German Degree, M.A.) University of Bielefeld, 1985.
• Co-Speaker of the Section on Comparative Politics of the German Political Science Association (DVPW).
  
  

Main Focus

• Comparative politics / methodological aspects of comparison as a method

Recent Publications

Monographs

• Forthcoming: Untersuchungsdesigns in der Politikwissenschaft, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.

• co-authored with Bernauer, T./Kuhn, P./Walter, S. 2013: Einführung in die Politikwissenschaft, Baden-Baden: Nomos.
• 2012: Einführung in die Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.

Refereed Articles and Book Chapters

• 2014: The Diffusion of Party Positions: Policy Positions Moving from the Nordic to the Baltic States, in: Aylott, N. (ed.): Models of Democracy in Nordic and Baltic Europe: Political Institutions and Discourses, London: Ashgate, 153-180.
• 2014: The Three Worlds of Environmental Politics, in: Duit, A. (ed): Mapping the Politics of Ecology: Comparative Perspectives on Environmental Politics and Policy, Cambridge, MIT Press, 81-110.
• 2012: Dimensions of Government Decision-Making Structures in OECD Countries, in: Keman, H./Müller-Rommel, F. (eds): Party Government and Parliamentary Democracy in the New Europe, London: Routledge, 57-82.
• co-authored with Oberst, C. 2012: Ideological Party Cohesion in Macro-Comparative Politics: The Nordic Social Democratic Parties from a Comparative Perspective, in: Scandinavian Political Studies 35/3, 222-245.
• co-authored with Korolczuk, S. 2012: German Exceptionalism: the End of Nuclear Energy in Germany!, in: Environmental Politics 21/1, 159-164.
• co-authored with Ewert, S./Buchstein, H. 2011: Landesparlamentarismus in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, in: Mielke, S./Reutter, W. (eds): Landesparlamentarismus:Geschichte – Struktur – Funktionen, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 327-358.

Other Articles, Book Chapters and Working Papers

• co-authored with Düpont, N. 2015: Estimating the Position of the European Union: A Tool for Macro-Quantitative Studies, in: KFG Working Paper Series 65, October 2015, Kolleg-Forschergruppe "The Transformative Power of Europe", Berlin: Freie Universität.  
• co-authored with Kuitto, K./Düpont, N. 2012: Welfare Policy Institutions in the enlarged European Union: Convergence, Divergence or Persistence?, in: Greifswald Comparative Politics Working Papers  2012, Working Paper,  Universität Greifswald.
• 2012: Bringing Time into Time-Series – Cross-Section Analysis: The Optimalized Lag Approach. Paper presented at the European Consortium for Political Research Workshops, 10-15 April 2012, Antwerp, The Netherlands.
• co-authored with Kuitto, K./Düpont, N. 2012: Welfare Policy Institutions in the enlarged European Union: Convergence, Divergence or Persistence?, in: Greifswald Comparative Politics Working Paper 1, 2012, Greifswald: Universität Greifswald.

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